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Minnesota Supreme Court upholds felony disenfranchisement law

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Justice Thissen’s opinion also held that the statute did not create the racially disparate impact of felony disenfranchisement. However, Justice Natalie Hudson said in her dissent that the statute creates racial disparities and is, therefore, unconstitutional.

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The court appears likely to preserve theory of liability in False Claims Act cases

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Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and reject a ruling observers said would gut the government’s primary anti-fraud statute. The justices and the litigants devoted substantial time discussing when a party’s decision to adopt an objectively reasonable, but incorrect, interpretation would satisfy the FCA’s knowledge requirement.

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Brnovich, election-law tradeoffs, and the limited role of the courts

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Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. The other was a statute enacted in 2016, which limited third parties — postal workers, election officials, caregivers, family members, or household members — who could collect completed absentee ballots from voters.

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GMR Sues RMLC – Claims Antitrust Violations for Negotiating Royalties on Behalf of the Radio Industry – What Are the Implications?

Broadcast Law Blog

What are the issues presented by this dueling litigation? As most radio stations don’t have individuals at their stations familiar with music licensing practices, it is difficult to imagine the small station in Ottumwa, Iowa or Elko, Nevada, or Dothan, Alabama each negotiating with all of the songwriter representatives.

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A blockbuster finale looms

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The federal government – normally in the business of defending federal statutes – filed a brief agreeing with the challengers and urging the justices to take up the case. The district court excused the delay, citing “exceptional circumstances” like parallel federal litigation and the case’s federal stakes. The real eyebrow-raiser?

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Don't Plead History and Bruen in Cruel and Unusual Punishment Challenge to Long Prison Sentence for Rape, When Rape Was Historically a Capital Crime

The Volokh Conspiracy

From yesterday's decision of the Iowa court of Appeals in Cue v. 1 (2022), to claim that Iowa's mandatory-minimum-sentencing scheme for certain class "B" felonies (seemingly as applied and on its face) was incompatible with our historical traditions and therefore cruel and unusual punishment. Bruen , 597 U.S. See State v.

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Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

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United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. GEOs cert petition insists that denying immediate review frustrates the very purpose of immunity: to avoid litigation burdens in the first place. Iowa Pork Producers Association v.