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DC Attorney General adds Mark Zuckerberg as defendant in Facebook privacy lawsuit

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District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday announced the addition of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant to an existing lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the data firm harvested information from as many as 87 million individuals without their knowledge.

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Supreme Court turns down Kentucky utility’s request to block EPA coal ash rule

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Since then, however, the justices have turned down several other requests to temporarily block EPA rules while litigation continues in the lower courts. The denial came just under six months after the Supreme Court, in Ohio v.

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US Supreme Court denies request to block EPA rules under appeal

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit makes a ruling. The US Supreme Court denied a request on Friday to place a hold on a lower court’s decision to uphold two EPA rules while the decisions are under appeal, meaning that the EPA rules must be followed until the U.S.

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Federal appeals court rejects lawyer’s petition to view classified Guantanamo military commission hearing

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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Department of Defense (DOD) lawyer’s petition to view a hearing for convicted terrorist Ibrahim al Qosi Tuesday.

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Powered By An Added 18M Cases, Lex Machina’s New ‘Litigation Footprint’ Visually Maps Parties’ Litigation Historys

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Called Litigation Footprint, it provides a visual overview of the federal and state courts across the country in which a party has litigated, derived from the litigation histories of parties in over 27 million cases filed in 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts in 34 states and the District of Columbia.

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District of Columbia, Mayor Sued Over School Mask Mandate

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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) recently sued the city of Washington D.C. and the mayor over the school mask mandate.

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A false choice between state sovereignty and multi-racial democracy

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AliKhan is the solicitor general of the District of Columbia. Harrison Stark is an appellate litigation fellow in the. This article is the final entry in a symposium on the upcoming argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Our case preview is here.