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2023 is the Year of New Consumer Rights

Diane Drain

The Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Phone Injustice: Profiting from Families of the Incarcerated

The Crime Report

In recent years, New York City, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, and the State of Connecticut made phone calls free for incarcerated people. But due to a 2017 Federal court decision, its authority has been restricted to only regulating calls that cross state lines, what we once called long distance.

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Whitehouse alleges “demonstrably false” fact-finding by conservative justices

SCOTUSBlog

Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. “Is Is there a legislative solution,” he asked, if Congress believes a Supreme Court decision is based on appellate fact-finding that is later proven false, and the decision is therefore invalid? The broader question was framed by Sen.

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Cities, counties, and states score major procedural win in climate liability suits against fossil fuel companies

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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SCOTUS Clarifies Reach of FAA Exemption for Transportation Workers

Constitutional Law Reporter

Petitioners Neal Bissonnette and Tyler Wojnarowski owned the rights to distribute Flowers products in certain parts of Connecticut. Facts of the Case Respondent Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets baked goods that are distributed nationwide.

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Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US

Conflict of Laws

These rates were calculated by dividing (1) the total number of cases where a clause was enforced by (2) the total number of cases where the court considered the issue of enforceability. The state courts in Florida and Connecticut have become more likely to enforce in recent years. They apply federal common law.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review. Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs. The Second Circuit said the Connecticut statutes authorizing the solicitations did not compel utilities to enter into contracts with specific bidders. California Chamber of Commerce v.

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