The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

Most bizarrely, in 2007, a Kansas court allowed a defendant to plead guilty to “attempted second-degree unintentional murder” even though the court acknowledged that “no such crime existed.”. Lies about law involve lawyers twisting statutes until they no longer represent the original law.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A Kansas law provides criminal penalties for trespassing at “animal facilities” with intent to damage the enterprise, including when consent to access is gained by deception. In 2018, the Animal Legal Defense Fund – which, according to Kansas Gov. Ineffective assistance of counsel. The case is Young v. Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Next up is Kelly v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. Goertz , involving the question of what statute of limitations state prisoners face when raising claims seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Phillips posted a side image of Holden at a game of the Kansas City Chiefs against the Las Vegas Raiders, showing his face painted black. There are 33 states with retraction statutes. The writer has long been controversial, but Deadspin retained him. It could now come at a high cost, but the defamation action will face challenges.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Stanford Law School’s Filing Fairness Project which has partnered with state and local court systems and officials in Alaska, California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Texas and Virginia, has helped establish the conditions necessary for the development of sustainable, multistate solutions to filing problems.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

While the FCC also found Fox responsible for transmitting the segment to its affiliates nationwide in violation of the rule, the FCC did not fine Fox as a programming network because the one-year statute of limitations period applicable to non-broadcasters had expired.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 1981, Congress passed a statute requiring that reimbursement rates paid to organizations for managing state Medicaid plans must be “actuarially sound.” The case has already been rescheduled three times, clearly indicating it’s on at least one of the justices’ radar. Next up is Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue , 21-379.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners , 22-556 Issues : (1) Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. Securities and Exchange Commission , 22-991 Issue : Whether, under special review statute 15 U.S.C. § That last case, United States v. Louis, Mo. ,

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. Courts in Arizona , Kansas and Texas have also ruled against these laws. O.C.G.A. § It also seeks to avoid contracting with anyone who supports or promotes such activity.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

There is an interesting case out of Kansas where an alleged rape victim has used a 134-year-old law to seek her own grand jury after prosecutors reached a plea bargain with the alleged attacker. In 2018, the Court of Appeal of Kansas address a case of a citizen grand jury. The statute merely requires sufficient general allegations.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Kansas City Light & Power Company v. Kansas City Light & Power Company v. The obvious issue beyond the alleged negligence of the Park is the plaintiffs’ own conduct. 32; 285 S.W.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Kansas City Light & Power Company v. Kansas City Light & Power Company v. The obvious issue beyond the alleged negligence of the Park is the plaintiffs’ own conduct. 32; 285 S.W.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2023

Kansas lawmakers recently overrode their governor’s veto so they could enact S.B. That law is not just another, so-called “bathroom bill”—legislation intended to prevent transgender people from using restrooms that align with their gender identity; it also reaches “ locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Kansas City Light & Power Company v. Kansas City Light & Power Company v. The obvious issue beyond the alleged negligence of the Park is the plaintiffs’ own conduct. Trimble ␣ 315 Mo.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The Trump administration followed an “attrition through enforcement” approach proposed in 2008 by Kris Kobach, who was at that time a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and later became Kansas’ secretary of state. Earlier this month, he was elected as Kansas’ incoming attorney general.)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos. EPA’s response to the petitions is due on August 5, 2021. 20-1778 (U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

United States , the justices narrowed the scope of a federal criminal statute under which hundreds of Jan. The court in Corner Post ruled that the window to challenge an action by a federal agency, a six-year statute of limitations, begins to run when the plaintiff is injured, even if that injury comes long after the action occurs.

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