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Morrison: Time to Give DC Residents A Vote in Congress

JonathanTurley

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean at George Washington Law School. As a lawyer who worked with counsel for D.C. TIME TO GIVE DC RESIDENTS A VOTE IN CONGRESS.

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The Unfinished Masterpiece: Will Jack Phillips Soon Be Headed Back to the Supreme Court?

JonathanTurley

As a result, Phillips was thrown back into an endless grind of litigation as activists targeted his bakery for additional challenges by demanding cakes with other messages that Phillips found offensive. In 2018, Phillips faced a second lawsuit, this time from a transgender lawyer who requested a cake celebrating a gender transition.

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“Refuse At Your Peril”: Does The Lincoln Project Have A Credible Defamation Case Against Giuliani?

JonathanTurley

On the opposing side, figures like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough raised equally poor understandings of defamation law i n considering lawsuits against Trump. In order to prevail, a litigant must show either actual knowledge of its falsity or a reckless disregard of the truth. to Roy Moore to Joy Reid. well, you get the idea.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148.

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New Lawsuit Against Trump Could Backfire Over The Use of Labels Like “China Virus” and ‘Wuhan Flu”

JonathanTurley

.” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law. However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless.

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“It Simply Does Not Make Any Sense”: Judge Trashes Election Lawsuit by the Elias Law Firm

JonathanTurley

Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. Elias was back in the news in another major defeat in Maryland. He filed in support of an abusive gerrymandering of the election districts that a court found violated not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.