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Supreme Court Upholds Corporate Personal Jurisdiction Laws

Constitutional Law Reporter

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court sided with Norfolk Southern, holding that the Pennsylvania law violated Due Process. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court reversed. Washington , 326 U.S. According to the Court, those decisions did not overrule the precedent established in Pennsylvania Fire Ins. . …

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Federal Judge Suggests Abortion May Be Protected Under 13th Amendment’s Ban on Involuntary Servitude

JonathanTurley

The court came to this question by a rather circuitous route. Lauren Handy and nine other anti-abortion activists were charged last year with conspiring to obstruct access to a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. The court’s other citation is to a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in J ane L.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. In addition, we have faced these controversies on campuses, including on the George Washington University campus. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb. O.C.G.A. §

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Will Biden’s Vaccine-Mandate “Work-Around” Work with the Supreme Court?

JonathanTurley

Courts have uniformly upheld the right of employers to impose mandatory vaccination or testing requirements as a condition for employment; states have enhanced authority over such public health measures, too. Ironically, the Supreme Court warned against such sudden agency “finds” of regulatory authority.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. State of Washington ex rel. Spokane County District Court , No. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. FEATURED CASE. Haskell v. 98719-0 (Wash. July 15, 2021).

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