JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

Former New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal passed Law Enforcement Directive 2018-6 , also called the Immigrant Trust Directive (“the Directive”), in November 2018 to allay undocumented immigrants’ fears about being turned over to immigration authorities when reporting a crime.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S. Ibarguen v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in two cases involving a requirement for herring fisheries to pay for the observers the government used to monitor overfishing. Justice Samuel Alito spoke to a concern that the “ deference forces courts to favor the federal government at citizens’ expense.”

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Patently O

APRIL 1, 2022

Correll is also a patent attorney and during that time Correll ran his own small firm. Government employees are not available to accept private clients or to represent clients other than their agency before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.” Why is this a problem — at least according to the USPTO “ U.S.

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mackey argued that the indictment should be dismissed because the government failure to establish a proper venue for the accusation, and that the indictment itself is a violation of due process and Mackey’s First Amendment right to free speech. Federal officials arrested Mackey on January 27, 2021 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Cisco rehearing denial allows a new invocation of the Alien Tort Statute to proceed, which could capture the U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray. The Ninth Circuit's Doe v. Supreme Court's attention, and has potentially dramatic consequences for U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

government deported him to Mexico. The government reinstated his prior removal order. An intricate statutory scheme defines the government’s power to detain noncitizens and on what terms. The Supreme Court previously held that the post-removal statute contains an implicit time limit. After one such entry, the U.S.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The first bill, SB77 takes aim at the governing structure of the ADAH. This would mean that the ADAH would be governed by a board of political appointees from the same party, as Republicans hold all the positions mentioned in the bill. Boyd, a retired attorney, former US magistrate judge and the chair of the ADAH’s current board.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

It contended that its employees are covered by a provision of the statute that carves out from the definition of employment anyone who works for (as relevant here) an organization operated primarily for religious purposes because the group carries out its charitable works to put Catholic principles into operation.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. ’ Most cases are won or lost based on the writing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As Meredith’s text message traveled between DC and Georgia, the federal government had the necessary interstate jurisdiction to prosecute him under this statute. It is defined by transmitting “in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

But earlier this year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened up a new battleground: the home. To be clear, there has been no change in the law governing child abuse, nor will there be for at least a year, since the Texas Legislature is not currently in session and meets biennially. Only a Pause.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § When ATF’s final rule went into effect, Cargill surrendered his bump stocks to the government and went to federal court to challenge the regulation. Cargill , the government the justices to weigh in. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In both United States v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The appeal by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt sought to authorize the state’s requirements of proof of citizenship for voter registration, photo identification for in-person voting, and driver’s license and signature verification for mail-in voting by overturning the Tenth Circuit’s decision. The case, Schwab v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Cordero-Garcia , involving whether a federal law that allows the government to deport noncitizens convicted of “an offense relating to obstruction of justice” applies even to cases that are not connected to open investigations or judicial proceedings. The government’s reading of ‘relating to,’” they warn, “has no meaningful limit.”

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JURIST

MARCH 16, 2021

The government of Kenya revealed Sunday that it had pulled out of the maritime border case with Somalia just a few hours before the scheduled virtual hearing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands. Last year Kenya’s Attorney General had requested 12 months to brief a new legal team.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In accordance with statute, the VA awarded Mr. Taylor monthly compensation. The VA cites a statute that limits the effective date of claims–which determines the start date for back pay–to when the veteran filed for benefits. Mr. Taylor claims the government interfered with his statutory right to disability compensation.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

First, the applicant must meet precise eligibility requirements under the statute. That statute is known as the jurisdictional bar. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s likely support for the statutory argument advanced by Patel and the government could be found in her expressed concern about Meehan’s reading of the jurisdictional bar.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Patel and the federal government agree that the case involves a non-discretionary determination regarding Patel’s eligibility for adjustment of status. The court appointed attorney Taylor Meehan to defend the 11th Circuit’s decision. Barr , underscores the principle and presumption of judicial review. Finally, citing to INS v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The forgiveness clause was designed by Congress to create a pathway for adjusting the status of those who entered the US without “inspection” if they could show they filed a visa petition or labor certification with the government on or before April 30, 2001, were physically present in the US and would pay a fine of $1,000.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2024

In order for an Ohio citizen: [t]o get a proposed constitutional amendment on the Ohio ballot, petitioners must submit their amendment, a summary of their amendment, and one thousand qualified supporting signatures to the Ohio Attorney General.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert Thursday warning New Yorkers of deceptive gambling advertisements ahead of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. In Ohio, Nebraska, and Florida, legislation has passed and legalization is pending as state governments plan how to roll out their systems.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2022

California's attorney general has waded into the app store dispute between Epic Games and Apple, telling the Ninth Circuit the state's unfair-competition law covers conduct not governed by the antitrust statutes, despite Apple's claim to the contrary.

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The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

attorneys investigated 1,864 suspects in matters involving violations of federal hate crime laws during that period, said a BJS report released Thursday. attorneys’ offices and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. attorneys declined to prosecute 82 percent of suspects, while prosecuting only 17 percent, according to the BJS.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It avers that the law “unconstitutionally intrudes on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens and therefore is field preempted.”

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At the Lectern

JUNE 22, 2023

County of Riverside today holds a broad government immunity statute isn’t as broad as many Courts of Appeal have been construing it. Government Code section 821.6 Government Code section 821.6 Menetrez, a former Horvitz & Levy attorney, wrote the article before becoming a judge.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over 30 states lack laws that establish a firm deadline for initial appearances, requiring only that such appearances occur “within a reasonable time,” with the result that individuals can be held behind bars for weeks before seeing an attorney, charge the report’s authors. The Supreme Court has never said,” the authors assert.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and reject a ruling observers said would gut the government’s primary anti-fraud statute. Attorneys representing the plaintiffs also seemed eager for the court to do more than send the cases back to the 7th Circuit to reconsider the case in light of the defendants’ subjective belief.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2021

The government’s case, presented by Assistant to the Solicitor General Erica Ross, emphasized the text of the statutory provision governing a noncitizen’s ability to challenge the validity of a prior removal order during a re-entry prosecution. That statute, 8 U.S.C.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Many states impose mandatory retirement ages, set by statute, on judges. For a variety of reasons, more law firms should consider mandatory retirement ages for partners and perhaps other attorneys. Some law firms also have mandatory retirement ages, but from my perspective, it seems as if such retirement ages are falling out of favor.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

States and localities take the lead in addressing violent crime, including gun crime, but the figures are a reflection of the key role played by the federal government in curbing illegal firearms. Most of the defendants prosecuted under federal statutes were charged with unlawful possession of a firearm.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The court must decide which of two federal statutes governs these migrants’ eligibility to be released on bond. 1226 governs; it applies “pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed,” and generally neither requires a period of detention nor mandates supervision if a person is released. 1231 controls.

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Patently O

JANUARY 27, 2021

44 requires notice of any Constitutional Challenge of a Federal or State statute. ” That constitutional challenge notice is then sent over to the US Attorney General (or respective state counterpart) who may want to intervene to defend the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The case involves a federal statute that provides compensation to veterans who are disabled as a result of injuries or diseases that are “contracted in the line of duty” or for “aggravation” of preexisting injuries or diseases. The justices seemed split.

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Patently O

JULY 10, 2022

Kevin Correll worked for the US Navy as an engineer, but also moonlighted for years as a solo patent attorney (prosecuting 211 patent applications). On appeal here, the Federal Circuit agreed with the USPTO interpretation, although the court appears to limit this broad holding to cases where the attorney is compensated for the work.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2011, after 60 years in which the statute did not lead to a reported decision, Kentucky sued the operators of PokerStars, an online poker platform, to recover the combined poker losses of Kentucky citizens. whose attorneys contribute to SCOTUSblog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the petitioner in this case.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But then, on October 19, 2021, Joseph Ryan, an attorney from Palos Verdes Estates, filed a complaint against the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, arguing that the transfer of Bruce’s Beach to the Bruce family is an unconstitutional “gift” under Section 6 of Article 16 of the California Constitution. It might be. More Than Outcomes.

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