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Justices limit major SEC tool to penalize fraud

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Share The court ruled on Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s routine practice of imposing fines in its administrative proceedings, used to penalize securities fraud, violates the Seventh Amendment “right of trial by jury” in all “suits at common law.”

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Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza and Hearst

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The court ruled that “[b]ased on the article’s presentation of facts, we think the complaint plausibly alleges that a reasonable reader could draw the implication that Representative Nunes conspired to hide the farm’s use of undocumented labor.” ” The problem for Nunes is that he is a public official.

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Petitions of the week: Federal funding for sanctuary cities and another dispute about the border wall

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This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to delve further into contentious issues of immigration policy. If the justices take up the border-wall case, it will be the second case added to the court’s docket this term involving the legality of border-wall construction. Mexico border wall. In New York v.

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Vaccine requirements, cancer claims, and circuit splits

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Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”