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. Florida and Moore v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The Virginia General Assembly on Thursday approved a comprehensive state-level Voting Rights Act by a 21-18 vote in the state senate. It prohibits any sort of voting practice or procedure that would cause the denial or abridgment of the right to vote to any person based on race, color, or membership in a minority language group.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit held that as a former employee, Stanley lacked a cause of action under the ADA. She claims that the retirement benefits for disabled retirees explicitly treats them worse than others. In Stanley v. Florida and Moore v.

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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 retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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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 retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. They asserted five causes of action: a claim under NEPA and the Administrative Procedure Act; breaches of the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty, the 1855 Lame Bull Treaty, the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty; and a failure to adhere to the Department of the Interior’s tribal consultation policies. 19-2128 (4th Cir.

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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).

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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. Nunes did not ask for such a correction under California law because he filed in Virginia. It was a cascading deconstruction of the lawsuit. Jones , 370 F.

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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 retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

On November 16, 2020, the Federal Court granted the Canadian government’s motion to strike without leave to amend on the grounds that the case was not justiciable, had no reasonable cause of action, and the remedies were not legally available. Federal Court Ordered FOIA Production of CEQ Records Related to NEPA Rulemaking.

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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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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. In yet another arrest that seemed to capture this bizarre holiday, Raymond Deskins, 61, of Sterling, Va. faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. Wild Virginia v. The District of Utah held that the lease suspensions merely maintained the status quo and therefore were not major federal actions subject to NEPA; the conservation groups therefore lacked standing. WildEarth Guardians v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Solicitor General Paul Clement, as well as lawyers from the New Jersey public-interest firm Cause of Action. There is no evidence that the absence of Chevron deference has caused any problems for the states, the Goldwater Institute writes. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

West Virginia v. The Court found that this case and the ecological hotspots case “present quite different typology and structure, specialized instruments and distinct political-legal approaches, in addition to the fact that their object, cause of action and demands do not coincide.” 20-1530, 20-1531, 20-1778, 20-1780 (U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The district court dismissed the claims against Egbert, noting that causes of action under Bivens v. But a panel of the 9th Circuit reversed, holding that Bivens actions are available for such claims against Border Patrol officers. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia , 21-164. relisted after the Oct. 29 conference).

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