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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

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Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Many migrants are released soon after capture, including some without a hearing date or court dates that are years in the future. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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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”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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