HowAppealing

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“ACLU asks supreme court to overturn Arkansas’ anti-boycott law against Israel; The civil rights group says the law is in conflict with a 40-year-old supreme court ruling that boycotts are protected speech”: Chris McGreal of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld an Arkansas law setting prescription drug reimbursement rates for pharmacies. The 2015 Arkansas law requires pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the state to pay reimbursements to pharmacies at or above the costs of obtaining generic prescription drugs.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. This securities class action relies on the “fraud-on-the-market” theory, which was validated in the 1988 Supreme Court decision, Basic Inc.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first trial challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care for children and teens starts this week in Arkansas. Starting Monday, a U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

District Court Judge Jason Marks found that SB 99 would most likely have the “opposite effect” when it comes to protecting minors and that the “purported purpose…is disingenuous.” We’ll continue to fight this law until all transgender Montanans have the health care they need.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. Both lawsuits ask the court to immediately halt implementation of the plan.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassaid to consider a California agricultural union organizing law. ” Under California law, agricultural businesses must allow labor organizations onto their property up to three times a day over a 30-day period, up to 120 days per year.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“Federal Court Moves to Drastically Weaken Voting Rights Act; The ruling, which is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, would effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups from suing under a key provision of the landmark law”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report.

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2024

Six major book publishers Friday sued the Florida Department of Education, challenging a 2023 state law used to restrict books in school libraries. The plaintiffs are suing on the basis that the state law is overbroad and violates the freedom of expression protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2024

Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana have all passed similar land sale laws in the past year. Florida’s law was overturned by a Federal Appeals Court because the law was likely to be preempted by a federal law. The bill will now advance to a vote in the Georgie state Senate.

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JURIST

MAY 24, 2024

The US Government alleges that Live Nation violated § 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act , an 1890 US antitrust law that prescribes the rules of free competition and prohibits unfair monopolies. § Live Nation has yet to file a response within the court.

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2024

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors into law on Monday. The law bans social media accounts for children under the age of 14 and requires parental permission for accounts for children between the ages of 14 and 15. This is government overreach.”

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2024

By Faraz Siddiqui — As drug manufacturers battle the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) in federal courts over the role of 340B contract pharmacies, an Eighth Circuit decision to uphold a 2021 Arkansas law may render those cases inconsequential in that state. 23-92-604(c)(1), (2) (Act 1103).

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Rutledge involves an Arkansas statute of that sort, which has three salient provisions. Tracking the Supreme Court’s standard framework for ERISA pre-emption cases, Sotomayor separately considers whether the Arkansas statute has an “impermissible connection” with ERISA plans and whether it “refers to” ERISA.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

are listening to advocates’ calls to consider resentencing laws in an attempt to decrease mass incarceration and address the over-imprisonment of people of color. Under the law, people who committed crimes when they were under 25-years-old can petition courts to reduce their sentences after serving 15 years.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday heard the case of Delaware v. The court is asked to interpret “money order” as used in 12 USC §§ 2501-03 and Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Travelers Checks Act of 1974. The case, consolidated with Arkansas v. The case, consolidated with Arkansas v.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2023

Additionally, the law includes provisions that limit a trans adult’s access to care. The injunction, issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, blocked SB 254’s provisions relating to gender-affirming care for minors. The amended complaint builds on a previous injunction issued in June.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that bars the city of Tulsa from enforcing municipal ordinances against Native Americans. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on hold to give the city time to appeal. But two years later, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 6, 2022

.” Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Pryor Confirmed to Seventh Circuit as Schumer Tees Up More Votes.” ” And Max Brantley of Arkansas Times reports that “ Boozman, Cotton oppose historic confirmation of Arkansas native to circuit court judgeship.”

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Above The Law

MARCH 22, 2023

* Can we all take a second and register how wildly corrupt it is that the Supreme Court just gives millions of dollars to Michael Chertoff? Bloomberg ] * Arkansas has now yanked child labor protections and introduced anti-trans bathroom laws if you want to know how things are going down there. appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Should Supreme Court Justices Have Term Limits? ACLU asks supreme court to overturn Arkansas’ anti-boycott law against Israel (Chris McGreal, The Guardian).

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

The other is the continuing lack of public access to the law. We can never fully resolve the access to justice crisis unless we also resolve the lack of free and open access to the law. For many with legal problems, simply knowing the law and their rights is the first step toward achieving a resolution.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). In NAACP v.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming healthcare.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A southwest Arkansas sheriff has been ordered by a federal judge to give up all his law enforcement duties and stay away from the sheriff’s office following his indictment and arrest on charges of obstruction of justice and concealing a crime, the Associated Press reports.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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Mondaq

JUNE 7, 2022

The Court of Appeals of Arkansas, applying Arkansas law, has affirmed a trial court's decision that an insurer had no duty to defend where the insured received a demand letter constituting a claim.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Kirschenbaum — Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act does not prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing conditions on the distribution of discounted drugs to covered entities in the program. By Sophia R. Gaulkin & Alan M.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. Mississippi first came to the court in 2014. Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

She contacted the Minneapolis police officer at the scene and shifted blame to Mohamud and her friends, according to court documents. Because of Weyker’s statements, which one court described as “ lies and manipulation ,” Mohamud and her friends were arrested on suspicion of tampering with a federal witness. Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the use of acquitted conduct in sentencing decisions, when a sentencing court must consider a defendant’s juvenile status as a mitigating factor, and compassionate release under the First Step Act. Finally, Bryant v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Federal law bars housing discrimination against a person with a disability. A federal district court in Iowa agreed that IADU had violated the FHA and ordered IADU to begin accepting her housing vouchers.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court’s Monday decision in Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System will not be remembered as one of the court’s seminal securities cases. The Supreme Court has an answer for that: Its 1988 decision in Basic Inc. Indeed, it might not even change the result in the case before it.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

Ward , Lester Smith maintains that the Georgia Department of Corrections is not following the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Holt v. Nevertheless, the district court also rejected Smith’s request for an untrimmed beard, letting Georgia impose a three-inch limit. However, both the district court and the U.S.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 20, 2021

Companies and law firms also use them in a variety of ways, placing them in individual offices and common areas, like break rooms and conference rooms. legal system, and as states take the lead on privacy laws—like California’s recent Consumer Privacy Act —there are increased calls for transparency and disclosure.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday that an Arkansas law prohibiting state contracts with companies that refuse to pledge against boycotts on Israel is an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The school was incorporated into the University of Arkansas System in 2017.

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