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A Brave New World: The NCAA’s New NIL Policy and the Need for Federal Legislation

The IP Law Blog

Supreme Court ruling in a related matter, where the Court affirmed a decision from a U.S. district court enjoining the NCAA from limiting universities from providing student-athletes with certain education-related benefits. [1] 2] The Court issued its decision on June 21, 2021.

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Divided Court Strikes Down COVID-19 Restrictions on In-Home Religious Gatherings

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled in Tandon v. Accordingly, the Court granted an injunction pending disposition of the appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Fourth, the Court noted that even if the government withdraws or modifies a COVID restriction in the course of litigation, that does not necessarily moot the case.

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Plaintiff’s judgment for student hit by shot put thrown by coach affirmed.

Day on Torts

He had played several sports before but had never “participated in shot put and was not familiar with the event.” He stayed home for 2-3 weeks before being released to return to school, and he was eventually released to return to sports. Having analyzed all the issues raised by both parties, the trial court’s verdict was affirmed.

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Challenge to Texas age-verification on porn sites comes to Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

Moreover, Texas added, the world has changed more broadly in the two decades since the courts ruling in Ashcroft , with online obscenity becoming much more dangerous for kids as the volume, production quality, and algorithm usage increases. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. And although H.B.

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Transgender Student’s Challenge to Bathroom Policy

JonathanTurley

On December 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a major opinion in in Adams v. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

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“Just Blind Chance”: The Rising Call For “Random Selection” For College Admissions

JonathanTurley

The Court this week asked the Biden Administration to take a position in the case involving allegations that Harvard has discriminated against Asian applicants. President and Fellows of Harvard College. ’ But what if there are no ‘statistical disparities’ because there are no objective statistics?

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Federal Court Strikes Down Another Provision of New York’s New Gun Control Law

JonathanTurley

New York Democrats have passed a series of laws that led to catastrophic losses in federal court, including the recent major ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. This includes openly gaming litigation to the irritation of individual justices. New York Democratic Gov. in Christian v.

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