Law 360

JUNE 22, 2023

Federal prosecutors have told a Massachusetts federal court that a Russian national convicted of orchestrating a $90 million hack-and-trade scheme can't use a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to show that his case should have been brought in a different venue.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Several New England restaurants urged the First Circuit to reverse a Massachusetts federal court's decision that the presence of COVID-19 on their premises didn't amount to physical loss, arguing that the lower court overlooked language differentiating their policies with a Cincinnati unit from those in other pandemic coverage suits.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. This was not easy.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In a recent state court decision, a King County judge in Washington State concluded that Facebook violated state political disclosure rules by not publicly providing information about the sale of political ads relating to state elections and ballot issues, as required by state law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

They will do so in the case of Carlos Concepcion, who was arrested in 2007 after selling crack cocaine to an undercover federal agent in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The justices will now decide which factors count. He pleaded guilty to possessing at least 5 grams of crack with intent to distribute.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

IEA appealed the transfer decision to the federal appellate court (TRF4). The Federal Court of Appeal’s decision. On August 20, 2021, the TRF4 (through a decision from the reporting judge) suspended the lower court decision to transfer the case and returned the case to the Federal District Court of Curitiba.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Massachusetts Appellate Court Affirmed Dismissal of Divestment Action Against Harvard.

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Patently O

APRIL 23, 2024

A Massachusetts jury sided with Teva and awarded $177 million in damages, including a controversial future-lost-profit award. If you recall from the Supreme Court decision in Amgen v. Patent Nos. 8,586,045, 9,884,907 and 9,884,908. The patents cover Teva’s drug Ajovy, and allegedly cover Lilly’s Emgality.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) argued to the federal district court for the Southern District of New York that its lawsuit against the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts to bar their investigations into Exxon’s climate change-related disclosures should not be dismissed. ADDITION TO THE NON-U.S. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

It notes the acknowledged circuit split, argues that loss and miscarriage are sufficiently broad to encompass claims of intentional nondelivery, and argues that langauge in the Supreme Courts decision in Dolan v. USPS indicates that immunity covers situations when mail fails to arrive at all. Relisted after the Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

As is frequently the case when the court denies review in cases that have been relisted repeatedly, denial occasioned dissent, this time from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. Relisted after the Jan. 28 and Mar. 7 conferences.)

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

In 1993, William Neilly was sentenced in Michigan state court to life without the possibility of parole for a homicide he committed as a juvenile. Because of intervening Supreme Court decisions prohibiting the imposition of no-parole life sentences for juvenile offenders, he was resentenced to a lesser sentence. 21 and Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive. Next, we explore the bounds of the Federal Arbitration Act, with a pair of petitions arguing that California’s efforts to restrict arbitration agreements undermine federal law.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2025

Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked. Friday’s court order comes in response to a petition for habeas corpus filed in the Massachusetts federal district court.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In response to Massachusetts Gov. The report from Massachusetts is the latest troubling development in the growing opposition from law enforcement and other first responders to required vaccinations. COVID-19 is now the leading killer of law enforcement officers in the U.S.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The Supreme Court said the PSC lacked authority to rewrite these terms. Massachusetts High Court Upheld Approval of Hydropower Purchase Agreements. Subsequent to the Supreme Court decision, the government of Nepal passed the Environment Protection Act of 2019 and the Forests Act of 2019. DA-19-0363 (Mont.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 8, 2025

The differences led to the historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. As court decisions made it clear that the period of race-based criteria was coming to an end, systems like the University of California dumped standardized testing, while others decreased the reliance onsuch scores. Harvard , 600 U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. EPA applies to greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles, and under which EPA issued an endangerment finding for greenhouse gases in 2009. Alternatively, the U.S.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 31, 2024

Supreme Court will review a Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot on grounds he violated section 3 of the federal Constitution’s 14th amendment by engaging in insurrection. There have been many amicus curiae briefs submitted in Trump v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. The Minnesota Supreme Court denied petitions for further review of an appellate court decision finding all but one aspect of the environmental review for the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline project to be adequate.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

A Supreme Court decision Thursday upending a century-old New York State gun licensing restriction has been called a major blow to state gun control interventions across the country. The Court released its opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. Haaland , No.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the state’s 2024 primary ballot. In a one-page unsigned order, the court scheduled oral arguments for February 8. Trump subsequently appealed that decision on Tuesday.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant. Case Outcome: Reversal of Lower Court Decision: 5 points. Affirmation of Lower Court Decision: 2 points. Area of Law: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Authority: 25 points.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2024

The court swore in about 20 lawyers to the bar association from multiple states, including Florida and Massachusetts. The questions focused on whether the AHM had standing to bring the case to court. Not as many reporters were in the press section of the courtroom, either.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 30, 2025

Pursuant to the Clean Air Act and the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Sierra Club, Consumer Federation of America, and Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants filed a petition for review in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge the U.S. Groups Challenged “Circumventing” of Efficiency Standards for Dishwashers. Bureau of Land Management , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The district court found the analysis of greenhouse gas and climate change impacts to be adequate but remanded for consideration of alternatives that did not involve leasing all nominated parcels. The conservation groups’ appeal of the district court decision is still pending, with the opening brief due on July 12.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The district court had granted Exxon’s motion to stay the case under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction to allow the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

They argue that the court nonetheless should grant review in order to clarify the law for future elections. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, has already opined that “ there is a strong likelihood that the [Pennsylvania] Supreme Court decision violates the Federal Constitution.”

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