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Minnesota court denies request to require statewide public school mask mandate

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.” They also argued that PASS lacked standing because it failed to prove: that its members suffered an injury-in-fact; that the alleged injury was fairly traceable to an action by Walz and Minnesota; and that the injury was redressable by a favorable court decision.

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Defending the Presumption of Innocence

The Crime Report

However, through laws and court decisions it has been recognized as one of the most basic requirements of a fair trial. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. and the former district attorney of Lawrence County, PA. The presumption of innocence is not guaranteed in the U.S.

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Win More Clients by Using Document Automation Differently

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I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. He’s an attorney licensed to practice in California since 2011.

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America’s Hidden ‘Constitution-Free Zones’

The Crime Report

Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. In effect, this means that nearly 60 million Americans live in states where the courts offer absolute immunity to federal officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too. Dozens of other defense attorneys had similar reactions. In 2009, Harpster learned about a double homicide in Woodbury County, Iowa, from a television documentary. But Gibbons told someone. It’s my life’s work,” he told me.

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Political Broadcasting Refresher Part 5 - Why Don't TV Stations Pull More SuperPAC Ads? Is There Potential Liability for These Ads?

Broadcast Law Blog

Sometimes that request for the removal of the ad comes from an attorney with some vague (or sometimes not so vague) threat of a legal action against the station if it continues to run the ad. The most likely source of liability is for some sort of defamation contained in an ad. Other stations may have more tolerance for risk.

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Blockbuster watch: Affirmative action, same-sex weddings, and other big relists

SCOTUSBlog

Moving on to potential blockbusters that don’t explicitly call on the court to overrule precedent. Environmental Protection Agency , 21-454 , is a long-running Clean Water Act dispute that has already been the subject of one major Supreme Court decision. They invoke Rapanos v. relisted after the Jan. 7 conference). Holcombe v.

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