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Kentucky Attorney Files Challenge To Kentucky Governor’s Closure OF Religious Schools

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting fight brewing in Kentucky between Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Gov. Beshear has correctly cited a major victory recently before the Kentucky Supreme Court — an unanimous decision in favor of his authority to issue pandemic orders. Andy Beshear. In Beshear v.

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North Carolina’s voter-ID lawsuit, racial bias in juries and a veteran’s disability claim

SCOTUSBlog

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit eventually affirmed the district court’s denial of the legislators’ attempt on the ground that the state attorney general was adequately defending the law. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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Denver Case Highlights the Potentially Deadly Hazards of Police Raids Based on Secondhand Information

The Volokh Conspiracy

The Fourth Amendment must be enforced in its entirety," says Anya Bidwell, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, which represents Mendenhall. Although "the Fourth Amendment bans reliance on second-hand information," she says, "the courts have read that requirement out of the Constitution.

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Six cases to look out for

SCOTUSBlog

The district court held that the allegations were inadequate under the heightened pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act , which Congress adopted to curb perceived abuses of securities litigation. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed. Kentucky ex rel. A divided panel of the U.S.

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Are Collective Net Zero Targets Anticompetitive?

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

On October 19th, 2022, a coalition of 19 Republican attorneys general (“AGs”) announced an investigation into six NZBA signatories: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo (the “NZBA Investigation”). court decisions finding antitrust violations in connection with climate pledges.

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Supreme Court takes Clean Water Act case

SCOTUSBlog

The justices did not act on two sets of high-profile petitions that they considered last week: a group of challenges to bans imposed by Illinois and several municipalities in that state on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as challenges to bans on gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

We have seen the freezing or termination of federal grants and other financial assistance, executive orders seeking to usurp state and local authority, the initiation of extensive deregulatory efforts, threats to green banks and nonprofit organizations, and significant developments in federal courts.