LegalReader

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Thomas More Society filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Rhode Island against the state's 2019 Reproductive Privacy Act.

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Parasec

JANUARY 6, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned the injunction, reinstating the beneficial ownership information (BOI) filing requirementand granting some deadline extensions. Subsequently, on December 23rd, a motions panel of the U.S. The form utilized by C.F.S. Read the official notice here.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 3, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving the double jeopardy clause and the Hobbs Act, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The announcement that the court had granted review in Barrett v. In March 2024, the Supreme Court threw out a ruling by the U.S.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Jenna Bettez, an elementary school teacher, stood before Judge Frank Caprio in Municipal Court in Providence, Rhode Island. She was there for two unpaid traffic…

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JURIST

AUGUST 29, 2022

The flagship university of Modern Jewish Orthodoxy turned to the US Supreme Court on Monday in hopes of blocking a lower-court order that would require it to formally recognize an LGBTQ+ student organization. The New York court also rejected the university’s constitutional arguments.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 11, 2025

Hull Last month, we blogged on the Department of Justices (DOJ) abrupt announcement that it had determined that removal restrictions protecting administrative law judges (ALJs) were unconstitutional and that DOJ would no longer defend those removal restrictions in court. The Court granted DOJs motion to dismiss.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 21, 2022

A Rhode Island lawyer who mistakenly thought he was successful in electronically filing a slip-and-fall lawsuit was granted a reprieve last week when the state’s…

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on a New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside the home, marking the first time the nation’s highest court has considered a major Second Amendment decision in more than a decade, reports the New York Times. Concealed carry holster. photo by 22860 via Flickr.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 13, 2022

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Rhode Island students can’t proceed with their lawsuit contending that the state failed to provide an adequate civics…

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 24, 2021

A justice on Massachusetts’ top court has declined to impose an interim suspension on a lawyer convicted of neglect in Rhode Island for failing to…

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2023

The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act sponsored by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] will be brought to a vote before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by fellow Democrat Dick Durbin [D-Ill], on July 20th. The announcement follows a string of controversial decisions by the court , with seemingly more on the way.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 13, 2022

“Federal court denies RI students appeal claiming constitutional right to civics education”: Linda Borg of The Providence Journal has this report. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link. ” You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the U.S. ” You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the U.S. .”

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 12, 2022

The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island recently granted a title insurance company's motion for reconsideration, holding that the insured did not suffer a loss when it lost title to two properties.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 3, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Over the past couple of conferences, the Supreme Court has continued to clear out the rolls of relisted cases. The court denied review on March 24 in Franklin v. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Because courts significantly altered operations, they took in 40 percent less cases in state and federal prison compared to 2019. . percent, while Rhode Island had the lowest prison percentage capacity, with only 51.3 The 2020 imprisonment rate of 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents is the lowest seen since 1992, BJS said.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists. The court granted review in United States Postal Service v. The district court agreed and dismissed Whole Foods with prejudice.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Share It has been just over two months since ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had not included over two decades’ worth of frequent luxury travel hosted by Harlan Crow, a Dallas billionaire, on the annual financial disclosures that the Supreme Court justices file each year.

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” In its complaint, the DOJ requested a court order for the divestiture of Google’s ad tech businesses. The eight states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont. In 2020, the DOJ filed a similar civil antitrust complaint against Google.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Share The Supreme Court court on Wednesday released a new list of circuit assignments to reflect Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s arrival at the court in late June. Jackson is the circuit justice for the 1st Circuit, which covers Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Democratic lawmakers in Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont all proposed decriminalization bills this year. Critics of decriminalization say such policies could decrease access to treatment, because fewer low-level offenders will be pushed into court-ordered programs.

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Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2021

A group of 15 conservative states led by Indiana urged the First Circuit on Thursday to allow Rhode Island's lawsuit against Shell, Chevron and other energy companies over climate change-related infrastructure costs to proceed in federal court rather than state court.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2024

Today, the Supreme Court will hear two of the most important cases of the term. In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in Chevron U.S.A. The court went even further in Arlington v. In both lower court cases, Chevron carried the day for the agency. Court of Appeals for the D.C. The ruling of the D.C.

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Law 360

MAY 1, 2024

The general treasurer of Rhode Island has sued Paramount Global in Delaware's Chancery Court for access to records regarding efforts to merge the mass media giant with Skydance Media, accusing Paramount's billionaire controller, Shari Redstone, of usurping company opportunities and tilting the terms and processes toward her own benefit.

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Law 360

JUNE 3, 2024

Massachusetts state court judges rejected a law firm's effort to fight malpractice claims by pointing the finger at a Rhode Island judge, and ruled that an online booking platform can boot the owner of Bali vacation villas from its site, among other under-the-radar decisions handed down in May.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the reports, which are the result of two years of research, New Mexico is short more than 600 full-time public defenders across adult and juvenile courts, whereas Oregon is short nearly 1,300 public defenders. ” New Mexico and Oregon.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A Rhode Island federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a second investor suit against CVS over its Omnicare acquisition in light of a 2022 First Circuit decision in a similar suit, saying the current action should be tossed because it suffers the same pleading fatalities as the case that went before the appeals court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2022

” Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse stated that he appreciated that she has judicial methodology instead of a judicial philosophy. .” ” Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse stated that he appreciated that she has judicial methodology instead of a judicial philosophy.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The prosecution moved to dismiss “in the interest of justice” and a New York trial court dismissed the matter. Kavanaugh’s opinion for the court. Kavanaugh began by affirming that precedent from the court and lower courts recognized claims for unreasonable seizure pursuant to legal process under the Fourth Amendment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a copyright clash over a fashion design and declined to revisit the authority of police officers to enter homes without a warrant. Unicolors went to court, where a jury awarded it nearly $900,000 in damages for infringement. But the U.S. Two weeks after ruling in Caniglia v.

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LPB Network

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Yesterday the First Circuit issued its decision in Rhode Island v. which addresses the scope of appellate jurisdiction over district court remand orders—the same issue for which the Supreme Court granted certiorari (in a Fourth Circuit. Shell Oil Products Co.,

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Mondaq

MARCH 3, 2022

On February 17, 2022, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously authorized an administrative complaint and a lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block the.

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Law 360

AUGUST 18, 2022

The First Circuit on Thursday held that a Rhode Island federal court was correct to toss a putative investor class action against CVS over its acquisition of Omnicare, agreeing with the lower court that the shareholders hadn't pointed to any false statements made by the pharmacy chain.

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Wednesday partially revived Rhode Island and other investors' securities fraud action against Google parent Alphabet Inc., reversing a lower court's order while holding the state plausibly alleged the tech giant made materially misleading statements in quarterly reports about a data breach.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Form 395-B was an annual report intended to gather information about the race and gender of broadcast employees, thrown out by the courts over fears of the unconstitutional use of the data to force broadcasters to make hiring decisions based on these factors. We wrote more about the possible resurrection of Form 395-B, here.

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