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US appeals court partially revives lawsuit claiming viewpoint discrimination against anti-abortion protesters

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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the District of Columbia alleging that it selectively enforced its defacement ordinance against anti-abortion protesters but not Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters in the summer of 2020.

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Akin Gump Loses Bid To Dismiss Legal Tech Company’s Counterclaims In Suit Over Ownership Of Bill-Drafting Software

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The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.) Chevron deference, Roberts explained in his opinion for the court on Friday, is inconsistent with the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that sets out the procedures that federal agencies must follow as well as instructions for courts to review actions by those agencies.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders return to the court after Collins

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in deferring to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s “interpretation of its own precedent” in the absence of a reasoned explanation for departing from the standards embodied in those precedents. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Issue : Whether the U.S.

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Washington family counselor challenges state’s ban on conversion therapy

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Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws. Texas 22-913 Issue : Whether a person whose property is taken without compensation may seek redress under the self-executing takings clause of the Fifth Amendment even if the legislature has not affirmatively provided them with a cause of action.

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Small Tech Company Takes On Major Law Firm Over Ownership of Bill-Drafting Software

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But Akin Gump, in its complaint for damages and injunctive relief filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court and in a petition to the U.S. 2022 CA 004744 B, filed in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. It’s absurd – and, frankly, a little embarrassing for him.”

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A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine

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Four of them – the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and District of Columbia Circuits – have answered in the affirmative. But that’s for cases brought under diversity jurisdiction. What about a case brought under the FSIA instead? Does Klaxon apply? courts of appeals have addressed that question.

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