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Plagiarism Panic Hits The Courtroom (Again), And It’s Still Nonsense

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. “San Juans 241-page complaint is almost a word-for-word carbon copy of the original complaint filed in the Municipalities Case, the judge wrote, referencing another lawsuit filed by other Puerto Rican cities as a putative class action against fossil fuel companies for causing climate change damages felt by the towns.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. I also think that Kennedy’s role in drafting and promoting legislation in the Senate, such as the Immigration Act of 1965, along with civil rights and health legislation, amounts to a legacy greater than that of some of the presidents of his era. The back story.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

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Wade just a few years out of law school. While attending Rutgers Law School in the 1960s, Frank Askin was a student of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Born in Puerto Rico and orphaned at age nine, Celina Baez Sotomayor moved to New York during World War II. Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court.

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