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Half Baked or The American Dream: Can States Ban Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream?

JonathanTurley

The calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in states like Texas, Florida ,and Oklahoma will give citizens the common choice between something Half Baked and the American Dream. NO PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION. (a) The American Dream for many is based on notions the free market and free speech.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Oklahoma Federal Court Allowed Landowner to Proceed with NEPA Challenge of Osage Nation Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Northern District of Oklahoma denied non-federal defendants’ motion to dismiss a landowner’s lawsuit claiming that the U.S. Optimus Steel, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers , No.

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No new relists, but you should read anyway

SCOTUSBlog

The court summarily reversed rulings adverse to police officers in two qualified immunity cases, City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. It acknowledges a “shallow conflict” on whether federal law impliedly preempts such causes of action, but recommends the court not take the case. Bond , 20-1668 , and Rivas-Villegas v.

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