Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes. Mississippi driver Ameal Woods knew his day was ruined when he saw red lights flashing in his rearview mirror on westbound Interstate 10 near Houston in 2019. But he soon found himself in a back room answering questions without an attorney.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

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. Mississippi v. Stutzman declined, telling him she could not “be a part of his event” because of her “relationship with Jesus Christ.”

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

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. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

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. Mississippi v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. 8 differently.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

As a result, the district court approved a cy pres agreement to distribute $12 million to the enrolled class members, $10 million to the plaintiffs’ attorneys, and $16 million to three consumer-protection nonprofits. Sixteen state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief supporting the petition. Class member Anna St. 31 and Apr.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. To the contrary, in the year it was ratified (1868), thirty of thirty-seven states explicitly criminalized abortion by statute.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The defendants filed their reply brief on January 22, 2020, reiterating their arguments that the Tenth Circuit should review the entire remand order, not just the district court’s determination that removal was not proper under the federal-officer removal statute, and that there were multiple valid grounds for removal. City of Oakland v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. 8 “to preclude review by federal courts that have the obligation to safeguard the very rights the statute likely violates.” Nevertheless, the two Texas cases — Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson and United States v.

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