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Federal judge declares Tennessee’s anti-drag bill unconstitutional

JURIST

Judge Thomas Parker, a judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Friday ruled that Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act (AEA) is unconstitutional. In his opinion, Parker ruled that the AEA violates First Amendment rights. He stated that free speech does not extend to just words.

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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal. A remand order, the companies reason, “is a written command or direction that the case must be returned to state court”; it “necessarily rejects” all of the grounds for removal on which the defendant relied.

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In back-to-back cases, justices will scrutinize traditional limits on challenges to agency proceedings

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Cochran present a frontal assault on the traditional framework under which federal courts have entertained complaints about federal agencies. The ALJ imposed a substantial monetary penalty and barred her from practice before the SEC, but the decision was vacated after the Supreme Court ruled in Lucia v.

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Brnovich, election-law tradeoffs, and the limited role of the courts

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The other was a statute enacted in 2016, which limited third parties — postal workers, election officials, caregivers, family members, or household members — who could collect completed absentee ballots from voters. The court’s 2019 decision in Rucho v. Crawford approved Indiana’s voter-identification law.

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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

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Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. 47 U.S.C. §

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How Do Lawyers Plan for Retirement?

MyCase

The article also states, “It is critically important to understand the labyrinth of potentially applicable ethics rules that intertwine with certain court rules on retirement.”. According to Law.com , attorney retirement in New York is “remarkably complex” with “variations of ‘retire’… used in different contexts.”

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Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Challenge Federal Immigration Policy

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”