SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

Medical Marijuana notes that the Supreme Court indicated – a bit offhandedly, in an opinion addressing another issue – that RICO’s private cause of action “exclud[ed], for example, personal injuries.” If granted, it should make for an interesting argument. The district court refused, but the U.S. Last up is Bufkin v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law. The law is one of the most restrictive in the county.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent was, obviously, still living at the time of his reaching a settlement in the West Virginia litigation. …

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

In the wake of the heavy use of reservists during the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and related military actions, Congress enacted a “differential pay bill” which sought to ensure that reservists whose military pay was less than their civilian pay continued earning at the higher civilian level during deployment. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. From health care to finance to environmental pollutants, administrative agencies use highly trained experts to interpret and carry out federal laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It acknowledges a “shallow conflict” on whether federal law impliedly preempts such causes of action, but recommends the court not take the case. West Virginia v. The solicitor general’s office has now filed its brief. though his 71 I.Q. 3596(c) and Atkins v. relisted after the Sept. 15 conferences). Munsingwear.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. West Virginia v. and non-U.S. Chevron Corp. —in

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Oh yea, he was reportedly not wearing a mask outside of Trump’s Virginia gold course but he was wearing an inflatable Trump inner tube. Of course, no one would confuse a bottle of Chardonnay with a Turkey, but that does not seem to matter under our increasingly absurd copyright and trademark laws. ————————————————————.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2022

The civil litigation between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts) just took a “Big Lebowski” turn. In the movie, there is a scene “The Dude” is pressed on what happened to a million dollars in a suitcase. He insists “We dropped off the damn money…” When the Big Lebowski asks “We?,”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

City of Philadelphia , which clarified when laws burdening religious exercise are not truly generally applicable and thus subject to strict scrutiny. This week, the court will be taking a second look at two petitions filed on behalf of law enforcement officers that have been sued for allegations of misconduct. In Holcombe v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Southern Environmental Law Center v. Arctic Offshore Drilling, Flickr. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The cities also have filed a motion to amend their complaints to withdraw federal common law public nuisance claims that they added after the district court denied remand.

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