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Ruling that nursing home arbitration agreement was invalid reversed.

Day on Torts

When the brother was admitted, plaintiff filled out admission paperwork, including an arbitration agreement, as plaintiff had a durable power of attorney for healthcare executed by the brother and naming plaintiff as the attorney-in-fact. In Welch v. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn.

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No civil liability for sharing truthful information about matter of public concern.

Day on Torts

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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Mopping up final business with 14 new relists

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20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. Then there is a case on the court’s original docket , Mississippi v. CVS Pharmacy Inc.

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Court seems inclined to let abortion providers pursue their challenge to Texas law

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Several justices expressed concern that because the penalties that flow from violations of the statute are both significant and broadly applicable, it will “chill” conduct: No one will be willing to challenge the law through that path, reducing the likelihood of federal court review. Kavanaugh also asked Stone about S.B.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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After the Washington attorney general learned about Stutzman’s refusal, he sued her for violating the state’s antidiscrimination laws, as did Ingersoll and his husband. The court added nine other cases to its docket for the 2021-22 term, on issues ranging from securities litigation to interstate water disputes. Mississippi v.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Women attorneys were not common at the Supreme Court during the 1970s, but Maria Marcus became a leading Supreme Court advocates during that time. As assistant attorney general for New York from 1967 to 1978, Marcus argued — and won — six cases before the justices. Daniel Berrigan and the Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.

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Supreme Court set to hear arguments in two challenges to Texas law that bans most abortions

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The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. They agreed to hear both cases before the court of appeals has fully weighed in, and they ordered an accelerated schedule for briefing and arguments not seen since the 2000 election litigation in Bush v. 8 — on hold.

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