JURIST

JUNE 10, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court decision to block enforcement of a Missouri law that would place tight restrictions on access to abortion. The first bans abortion after eight weeks, with an exception in the case of a medical emergency but not in cases of rape or incest.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

Wullschleger and Brewer brought a putative class action in Missouri state court, alleging that the “prescription” designation is misleading because the Food and Drug Administration never evaluated the product, and that they were injured by the food’s higher price. In reviewing the Veterans Court decision, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

(The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Missouri that such shackling practices violate a defendant’s due process rights.) The answer to that question turned on the relationship between a Supreme Court decision and a congressional statute. In Brecht v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

“The HEROES Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’” provisions of the student aid laws, “but does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the Court.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 21, 2024

Louis, Missouri , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must show that the transfer brought about some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment, but that harm need not be significant. City of St.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

State governments are already responding to the Dobbs decision with new regulations banning abortion or working to reinforce protections for people seeking abortions in their states across state lines. HB314 reinforced Alabama statute banning abortion that was never appealed after it was made unenforceable under Roe. South Dakota.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Two principal federal antitrust statutes govern agreements among competitors: the Sherman Act of 1890, which prohibits monopolization and unlawful trade restraints, and the Clayton Act of 1914, which identifies additional prohibited conduct, including with respect to interlocking directorates, and mergers and acquisitions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Investors who want the flexibility to consider all relevant risks to their investments have challenged these rules and laws in court, and, in both state and federal cases, the effort has succeeded. Recent Victories The decision from Missouri, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association [ (SIFMA) ] v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. Missouri v. Army Corps of Engineers , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. To the contrary, in the year it was ratified (1868), thirty of thirty-seven states explicitly criminalized abortion by statute.” Moreover, they write, “abortion was a longstanding common-law crime.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The administration’s ultra-broad interpretation of the HEROES Act runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on the “major questions” doctrine, which requires Congress to “speak clearly when authorizing an [executive branch] agency to exercise powers of vast economic and political significance.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline. Missouri v. Biden , No. 4:21-cv-00287 (E.D.

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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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 20-1530 (U.S. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. 20-1531 (U.S. County of Maui v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

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. On March 26, 2021, the court denied Exxon’s emergency motion for a temporary stay of the remand order.

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