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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

to be “paid back”) out of any recovery, and then to take some hefty percentage—often 60% or more of whatever is remaining, particularly in litigations deemed high-risk (like patent litigation), though there are no rules governing how much funders can ask for. (It

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

She contacted the Minneapolis police officer at the scene and shifted blame to Mohamud and her friends, according to court documents. Because of Weyker’s statements, which one court described as “ lies and manipulation ,” Mohamud and her friends were arrested on suspicion of tampering with a federal witness. Supreme Court.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2023

Like Senator Machaela Cavanaugh from Nebraska who spent seven weeks filibustering for trans rights. Practically every supreme court case since 1803 has been decided using the power of judicial review. Representative Zephyr will likely appeal this ruling to higher courts. But that claim is, well, just false.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

By February 1 , TV stations in Kansas , Nebraska , and Oklahoma and radio stations in New York and New Jersey must file their license renewal applications through the FCC’s Licensing and Management System (LMS) on Form 2100, Schedule 303-S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

By February 2, noncommercial TV stations in Arkansas , Louisiana , Mississippi , New Jersey , and New York should file with the FCC their Biennial Ownership Reports , and noncommercial radio stations in Kansas , Nebraska , and Oklahoma should be filing those same reports on February 2.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2024

FPF) in which the group accused the DOH of “using public resources and government authority” to prevent TV stations from airing pro-choice political ads. Nebraska approved two separate abortion amendments while Missouri passed stricter requirements that would make it more challenging to amend the state’s constitution.

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JURIST

MAY 30, 2023

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Planned Parenthood Tuesday challenging a Nebraska law that restricted abortion access and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The post ACLU challenges Nebraska restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MAY 15, 2024

The US Department of Justice determined that Nebraska is violating the civil rights of residents with serious mental illnesses by unnecessarily segregating them into institutional settings. In Olmstead, the Supreme Court determined that financial constraints could not determine whether states comply with the ADA guidelines.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Representing Tyler, lawyer Christina Martin argued that the county had violated the Constitution’s takings clause, which bars the government from taking private property for public use without adequately compensating the property owners. The court, she urged, should vacate the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

1, the Supreme Court agreed to fast-track a challenge , brought by six states, to the Biden administration’s student-loan debt relief program. 11 attacks that allows the federal government to make changes to student-loan programs to respond to national emergencies. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, which blocked the program.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

Courts look to two elements in entrapment cases. While the government can encourage criminal conspirators, the courts ask whether the offense was induced by a government agent and whether “the defendant was disposed to commit the criminal act prior to first being approached by Government agents.”

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2024

A US federal court Wednesday blocked the Department of Education’s Final Rule prohibiting sex discrimination against LGBTQ+ students from taking effect in six states. The plaintiffs in the suit were Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2024

The law prohibits organizations or local governments from processing complaints, starting investigations, or taking any other action against schools that enforce this policy. Laws are not limited to those states, however, with Texas , North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska and others passing bills banning gender-affirming care.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nebraska and Department of Education v. At the heart of the Supreme Court’s cases addressing federal student-loan forgiveness lies one key question: Have lower- and middle-income Americans with student-loan debt been made financially worse off by the pandemic? A preview of the cases is here. The AFT represents more than 1.7

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Nebraska and Department of Education v. Formally, the Supreme Court faces two questions in the pair of cases challenging the Biden administration’s initiative to cancel between $10,000 and $20,000 of federal student-loan indebtedness per borrower. If the answer to the first question is no, the court need not reach the second.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program. The district court denied the States’ motion for a preliminary injunction and dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction after determining none of the States had standing to bring the lawsuit.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Ohio Supreme Court later declared SB 10, Ohio’s AWA compliance law, was punitive and violated constitutional protections against retroactive laws. [iv] Ohio wasted about $10 million in taxpayer dollars to defend this controversial law in the courts. [v] Compliance checks are unnecessary and unconstitutional. ENDNOTES. [i]

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Who governs them? Who holds them to account?”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will thus begin the process of considering what cases to review next fall during October Term 2022. The district court and U.S. What’s the difference ?

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teens. And with similar laws in 23 other states , the court’s ruling is likely to have broader implications for the protections available to transgender people across the country.

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JURIST

MAY 6, 2024

A group of 12 Republican US senators sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, threatening repercussions if the court issues arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials, according a Monday report from news organization Zeteo.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

Supreme Court weakened this kind of argument considerably on May 11, 2023, in its decision in National Pork Producers Council v. Moreover, the Supreme Court recently signaled again that states are free to enact environmental laws that may be beyond federal powers. [52] 46] The U.S. 2] See, e.g., Jacqueline M. Vallette and Kathryne M.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Supreme Court, in Kansas v. The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute double jeopardy since it merely authorized “civil” rather than “criminal” commitments. On June 23 1997, the U.S. Taken together with Kansas v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on reaction to the refusal of the Supreme Court to enjoin the Texas abortion law. The order of the Court expressly did not reach the merits and certainly did not, as claimed, overturn Roe v. promptly declared that the court “ overturned ” Roe v. 1 to demand emergency court intervention.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily barred the Biden administration from implementing one of its latest efforts to provide debt relief to Americans with student loans. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, which is currently considering the government’s appeal, to act quickly. In that decision, Biden v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Republican-led “anti-ESG” (environmental, social, governance) movement over the last two years has largely been a legislative effort, comprised primarily of state-level bills that attempt to halt the consideration of climate risk and other commonplace factors in investment decisions connected with government funds, contracts, and pensions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Share With over 100,000 Americans hospitalized for COVID-19 as a result of the highly contagious Omicron variant, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument Friday in two sets of challenges to the Biden administration’s authority to take action to combat the pandemic. In the first case, National Federation of Independent Business v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Heres a puzzle: When does a Supreme Court justice believe courts can review executive branch decisions? But beneath the straightforward legal question lies a revealing pattern of inconsistency from some of the Courts conservatives. Musk freezing the payouts violated the law.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. ” Wyoming filed a separate complaint in the federal District Court for its own state.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the Biden administration’s student-loan debt-relief program. But the court’s decision could also have a much broader legal impact, affecting when and how states can go to court to challenge federal policies and how courts should interpret other laws giving powers to federal agencies.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will fast-track a challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program and hear oral argument in February, the court said Thursday. The $400 billion program will remain on hold in the meantime due to lower-court rulings that have blocked the government from implementing it.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pair of challenges to the program. But the court’s decision could also have a legal impact well beyond this case, as the justices weigh issues such as when states can go to court to contest federal policies and how courts should interpret laws giving power to federal agencies.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our involvement in this case, Nebraska v. EPA (concerning light- and medium-duty vehicle emission standards), that bring the unique perspective of cities and other local governments before the courts. In Nebraska v. EPA (concerning power plant emissions standards) and Kentucky v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Acting alone, Justice Amy Coney Barrett turned down two requests from opponents of the program to block it, without even seeking a response from the federal government. By contrast, the court on Friday instructed the challengers to respond to the Biden administration’s request by noon on Wednesday, Nov. The 40-page filing by U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court in Biden v. Nebraska , characterizing the decision as a straightforward interpretation of federal law. But after federal courts in Missouri and Texas put the program on hold last year, the Biden administration came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh in.

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