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Mastering Numbers in Legal Writing: A Complete Guide to Style & Formatting

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Legal professionals must follow standard conventions, often dictated by specific style guides like The Bluebook or the California Style Manual. Example: $1,000 or One thousand dollars ($1,000) (It is interesting that both The Blue Book and the California Style Manual are silent on this point. 2113 (a) for the statute on bank robbery.

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Cancellation Litigation + Doxing Claim, over Allegedly Malicious Publicizing of Snapchat Video with Allegedly Racist Statements

The Volokh Conspiracy

Buckley , filed last week in Contra Costa County (California) Superior Court: Plaintiff and Defendant were close friends in high school and the beginning of college, but had a fallout in July of 2023. From Doe v.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

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Big time, though the bankruptcy court only awards the woman half of her compensatory damages and attorney's fees because she was partly at fault for the screw-up, for failing to alert the state court to the bankruptcy discharge. But what about a challenge to California's law forbidding more than one gun purchase a month?

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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

The relevant statute provides the possession crime occurs when there’s been a violation of “an express condition of probation,” but a form Judicial Council instruction that was given to the jury says an element of the crime is that “ a court had ordered that the defendant not own or possess a firearm.”

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“Corners Were Being Cut”: Baldwin Shooting Already Has The Makings of a Blockbuster Tort Action

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Many of the crew were from California but the set is in New Mexico. The California code contains an ample criminal negligence or manslaughter provision: PART 1. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.” Walgreen Hastings Co., Legg, 441 P.2d 2d 912 (Cal.

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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. The solicitor general recommends the court grant review. Cummings v. Cummings v.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In 2019, the Wyoming federal court stayed these proceedings challenging the Waste Prevention Rule while a challenge to the Trump administration’s repeal of the rule was pending in the federal district court for the Northern District of California. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. California v. 19-1189 (U.S.

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