Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In its 2021 regular and special sessions, the General Assembly made a number of changes in the statutes that affect independent schools in Connecticut.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Several states, including Connecticut, California, District of Columbia , Massachusetts , and Nevada, have adopted or incorporated the Code in their statutes or regulations. Another reason drug manufacturers may want to update their marketing policies are the numerous state requirements tied to the Code.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Several states, including Connecticut, California, District of Columbia , Massachusetts , and Nevada, have adopted or incorporated the Code in their statutes or regulations. Another reason drug manufacturers may want to update their marketing policies are the numerous state requirements tied to the Code.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state. The United States legal system is immensely complex.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 14, 2024

Petitioners Neal Bissonnette and Tyler Wojnarowski owned the rights to distribute Flowers products in certain parts of Connecticut. All this “complexity and uncertainty” would “‘breed[] litigation from a statute that seeks to avoid it.’” Facts of the Case Respondent Flowers Foods, Inc.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

arguing that the gunmakers’ activities violated Connecticut and Massachusetts consumer protection laws. Congress enacted that statute with only U.S. The government claims that up to 90 percent of all guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes were trafficked from the U.S., domestic concerns in mind.”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,

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Trademark & Copyright Law

APRIL 24, 2020

Since Fossil did not act willfully, the District Court for the District of Connecticut refused to award Romag the profits that Fossil had earned as a result of the trademark infringement. Romag sued, and a jury found that Fossil had infringed Romag’s trademark and patent, and acted “in callous disregard” of its rights. Looking Forward.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

courts apply a presumption against extraterritoriality to limit the reach of federal statutes. 2023), the Supreme Court held that federal statutes should be presumed to apply only to conduct in the United States unless those statutes clearly indicate that they apply extraterritorially. Second, U.S. Hectronic International, Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Four jurisdictions (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and the District of Columbia) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to the TCI program. The initiative seeks to reduce greenhouse through a cap-and-invest model that taxes fuel providers and reinvests the proceeds in clean transportation.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Moreover, three states — California, Connecticut, and Nevada – have essentially incorporated the Code into state law by requiring pharmaceutical companies to develop and maintain compliance programs that include, or are consistent with, the PhRMA Code.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

A separate appeal, challenging Judge Chhabria’s decision that the federal officer statute does not require removal, is pending, with briefing scheduled to take place over the summer. But the Second Circuit (in Connecticut v. Late yesterday, May 22, the Ninth Circuit panel denied the petition for interlocutory appeal.

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Ramblings of a Connecticut Paralegal

APRIL 19, 2021

Canon 7 - A paralegal must protect the confidences of a client and must not violate any rule or statute now in effect or hereafter enacted controlling the doctrine of privileged communications between a client and an attorney. When in doubt, talk to your attorney.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2022

Connecticut might be zoning in on affordable housing. I know long-arm statutes are a thing, but Missouri's attempt to ban abortions that happen in other states would make the court that wrote Wickard blush. [ . * The ties that bind: Giving birth in Indiana is making a change for the humane. Woop Woop! [ CT Mirror ]. * USA Today ]. *

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2011

In 1982, in adopting the rules as to the timing of sponsorship announcements and the acknowledgment of donations, the FCC relied on what was then a recently-enacted statute addressing the sponsorship of public broadcasting programming. " What does that mean?

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

December 1 is also the deadline for noncommercial ownership reports to be filed by noncommercial radio stations in Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont , and noncommercial television stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (see our Advisory here ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is a significant victory for the FTC and its co-plaintiff, the State of Connecticut. The decision in this case, FTC v. LeadClick Media, LLC , comes from the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs. S241948 (Cal.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

That is the allegation of Waterbury, Connecticut police who say that Jason A. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. I previously have written how the fear of razor blades in apples appears an urban legend. 32; 285 S.W. 455 (1926).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That is the allegation of Waterbury, Connecticut police who say that Jason A. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. I previously have written how the fear of razor blades in apples appears an urban legend. 32; 285 S.W. 455 (1926). “A

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The companies filed their brief on November 16, arguing that the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that it was limited to reviewing removal based on the federal-officer removal statute. Exxon Mobil Corporation moved to dismiss Connecticut’s action on personal jurisdiction grounds (November 13). Exxon Mobil Corporation , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey filed suit, arguing that the new law violated the Constitution — specifically, Article I, Section 8 , and the 10th and 16th Amendments — because it interfered with states’ sovereign taxing authority by unduly coercing them to change their sovereign tax policies and by denying them equal sovereignty.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Kevin Kelly and his girlfriend Regina Jones went to a Halloween party at the Rustic Café in Old Lyme, Connecticut in 2018. However, the scariest thing about Halloween for some may be the two-year statute of limitations that follows the holiday. They were dressed as Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Kevin Kelly and his girlfriend Regina Jones went to a Halloween party at the Rustic Café in Old Lyme, Connecticut into 2018. That is the allegation of Waterbury, Connecticut police who say that Jason A. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. Macy’s Parade also did not disappoint with its balloon-related mishaps.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Connecticut ; Requested “Tutorial” on Climate Change. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. ExxonMobil Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting the Biden administration. This use of “materially different means” to address the same problem targeted by Section 922(g)(8), Rahimi concludes, “tends to prove” that the statute is unconstitutional. Members of Congress, led by Sen.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos. EPA’s response to the petitions is due on August 5, 2021. 20-1778 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, and that this authority may prove central to addressing climate change under the statute. Indeed, the plain meaning of the statute, its structure, and its purposes all support the Second Circuit’s conclusion. A summary is available here.)

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

On the other hand, 16 states protect access to abortion through various methods, such as state constitutional amendments and laws that protect the right to privacy, state supreme court decisions interpreting equal protection to include reproductive care, and statutes that protect access to reproductive care.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The court also noted that states and localities “expressly maintain control over the local distribution of natural gas under related federal statutes” such as the Natural Gas Act. holding that the scope of appellate review of remand orders extended beyond review of removal based on the federal-officer removal statute.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Connecticut , 564 U.S. In Minnesota, the district court granted the State of Minnesota’s motion to remand its case, which asserts state law claims under common law and consumer protection statutes. s consumer protection statute. The Second Circuit cited American Electric Power Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Connecticut , the Supreme Court ruled that Section 7411 gives the EPA the power to decide how to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants. The Supreme Court, the groups stress, has never applied that doctrine to a rule that is no longer in effect and would not impose any real costs even if it were revived.

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