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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded Thursday that Kentucky may enforce price gouging laws against sellers on Amazon, overturning a district court preliminary injunction. ” Additionally, a second relevant statute in this case prohibits misleading trade conduct. .
Walker’s attorney, Tom Wine, argued that he was acting in self defense in accordance with Kentucky’s self-defense statute when he fired a single “warning shot,” striking Mattingly. This motion now permanently closes the case against Walker in the Kentucky judicial system.
In 2019, police on bicycle patrol in Lexington, Kentucky, observed two men at a park bench exchange cash for what they believed to be a joint containing synthetic marijuana. A Kentucky appeals court agreed with Bembury that the search was likely unconstitutional. But the Kentucky Supreme Court reversed and upheld his conviction.
Leaving intact the nation’s “most aggressively broad” statute criminalizing certain speech and conduct directed toward school employees, the Masters case involved Johnathan Masters, an education graduate student who distributed surveys to secondary school students as part of his research. Examining Masters v.
Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Kentucky can recover $870 million from an online poker platform to recoup Kentuckians’ losses and whether federal approval of Roundup can protect Monsanto from violations under California law. Kentucky, ex rel.
And Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Kathy Griffin Cleared in Case Brought by Covington Catholic Students; Kentucky’s long-arm statute does not allow students to bring harassment claims against comedian Kathy Griffin and a New York doctor for tweets sent in the aftermath of a viral Washington Monument standoff.”
The statute defines “crime of violence” as one that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another.” After considering the case at two consecutive conferences, the justices turned down Granier’s petition without comment.
Paxton’s theory is that such therapy causes mental, physical, and/or emotional injury, fitting within very broad phrasing of the Texas criminal statutes on child abuse, even though scientific literature states that such therapy is reversible (i.e., Omar Ochoa. Indeed, the legislature took up this very issue last year.
A Kentucky federal judge has ruled that digital information isn't covered by the federal smuggling statute and dismissed a charge against a magnetics manufacturer and two executives accused of emailing magnet schematics to Chinese companies.
At the other end of the spectrum, New Jersey and Pennsylvania provide no homestead exemptions, while Virginia and Kentucky allow just $5,000. That would undermine “the protection a debtor has under the current homestead• exemption statute,” Drain wrote in a commentary.
In his petition, George counters that a federal court’s interpretation of an unambiguous statute is not a mere change in interpretation but declares what the law has always meant. Kentucky when the evidence was not available to the petitioner during state court Batson proceedings. The case is George v. 2254(d) and Cullen v.
Issue : When, if ever, a preliminary hearing provides an “adequate opportunity” for cross-examination under the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause. United States v.
McDonough involves the entitlement of veterans to educational benefits under two statutes: the Montgomery G.I. Each statute caps the education benefits that a veteran may earn under that statute at 36 months (the equivalent of a four-year college degree: nine months per academic year for four years). Rudisill v.
No longer the only horseracing regulators in town, a group of states, led by Oklahoma, and their racing commissions went to federal court in Kentucky. The new statute authorizes the agency to issue its own rules that “abrogate, add to, and modify the rules of the” horseracing authority.
Well-known examples of trade secrets include the recipe for Coca-Cola, Google’s search algorithm, the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken, the WD-40 formula, the recipe for McDonald’s secret sauce, Hershey’s chocolate-making process, and Procter & Gamble’s consumer research methods. in connection with an internal commercial use.”
Judge Griffin further noted that every other circuit that has considered the meaning of “a sentence” in the statute has come out differently than Jackson and Carpenter. According to Judge Griffin, the “historical fact” approach only made grammatical sense if one replaced the word “has” in section 403(b) with “had.”
Securities and Exchange Commission , 22-991 Issue : Whether, under special review statute 15 U.S.C. § Kentucky by considering the prosecutor’s purported justifications for striking seven of the eight African American prospective jurors presented to it “in isolation,” rather than, as this Court directed it to do in Flowers v.
The Kentucky AG uniquely adds that FDA’s proposal improperly interferes with the Commonwealth’s exercise of supervisory authority over its physicians, including statutes addressed to obtaining informed consent. This proposal is a[n]. intrusion [into] the doctor-patient relationship.
Broadcasters already upload this information to their public file, and this update merely brings the FCC’s rules in line with the requirements of federal statute and thus has no practical effect on a station’s political file obligations. We wrote in more detail about these changes, here.
The Kentucky Supreme Court Thursday ruled to keep two statewide abortion restrictions in place. The decision addressed two statutes: KRS 311.722 (the trigger ban) and KRS 311.7707-11 (the heartbeat ban), both of which prohibit termination of pregnancy after about six weeks, when fetal cardiac activity is typically first detected.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit challenging two Kentucky abortion bans for violating the state’s constitutional right to privacy and self-determination. In February 2023, the Supreme Court of Kentucky declined a similar challenge to the abortion bans.
The statute defines “information content provider” as “any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.” 47 U.S.C. § The jury hung in the first trial of this case, which necessitated a second trial.
See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Kentucky v. As a Halloween prank, restaurant manager Joe Watkins of the Chicken Ranch in Paris, Kentucky thought it was funny to lie in a pool of blood on the floor. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Watkins (2008). 32; 285 S.W.
See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Kentucky v. As a Halloween prank, restaurant manager Joe Watkins of the Chicken Ranch in Paris, Kentucky thought it was funny to lie in a pool of blood on the floor. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Watkins (2008). 32; 285 S.W.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a complaint arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague. Because of the procedural posture of the lawsuit, the court concluded that “the Statute must survive Planned Parenthood’s pre-enforcement, facial attack.” Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Amy St.
Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. The post SCOTUS Rules Kentucky AG Can Defend Abortion Law appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.
Biden 23-525 Issue : Whether the Antiquities Act of 1906 authorizes the president to declare federal lands part of a national monument where a separate federal statute reserves those specific federal lands for a specific purpose that is incompatible with national-monument status. 1159(b).
Corpus linguistics is a tool used to identify the original public meaning of words – no small thing when the outcome of a case often hinges on the meaning of a single word in a statute or the Constitution. These examples underscore corpus linguistics’ utility in ascertaining the meaning of statutes. 20-56174, 2022 U.S. 6 (9th Cir.
Coverage of federal fraud statutes Porat v. Kentucky because “it implies some sort of nefarious intent on the part of prosecutors.” Kentucky ex rel. There are six newly relisted cases this week, so I’m going to be more summary than usual in describing them. This week’s relists are a real grab bag of issues.
While this matter was pending before the Sixth Circuit, the Secretary retained lawyers from the Kentucky Attorney General’s office to represent him. After the Sixth Circuit upheld the permanent injunction against Kentucky’s law by a divided vote, the Secretary decided not to appeal further.
In a conversation with The Crime Report , Canon, a civil rights lawyer who teaches at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, discusses the class-based origins of the plea bargaining process, how bad prosecutors and poor defense attorneys further distorted the process, and why reforming it will be so difficult.
Kentucky ex rel. (rescheduled before the Mar. 26 and May 9 conferences; relisted after the May 16, May 23, May 30, June 6 and June 13 conferences) Jane Doe 1 v. rescheduled before the Jan.
He thought it was irrelevant that the American Psychiatric Association had changed its diagnoses since that time; to hold otherwise, he said, would be to “give organizations like the APA the power to effectively modify statutes passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. That cannot be right.”
The other potential blockbuster of the week, which involves a legal challenge to a Kentucky abortion law, appears likely to be resolved on procedural grounds in favor of the state’s Attorney General. In the closely-watched case involving Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , the justices appeared poised to reinstate his capital sentence.
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The statute tasks the Department of Education with “issuing rules, regulations, or orders of general applicability” to “effectuate” Title IX’s antidiscrimination mandate. District Courts in Louisiana and Kentucky agreed with the plaintiffs and preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the rule in the plaintiff States.
There are several statutes that form the basis of our antitrust laws. Texas, Kentucky, and others, most recently Oklahoma, have all released their own blacklists of financial companies prohibited from doing business with those states. And what are the permissible boundaries of that behavior?
But the agency took no action to investigate or correct the disputed information, in violation of the statute. The district court agreed with the government that the statute did not unequivocally express Congress’s intent to waive sovereign immunity and granted the USDA’s motion to dismiss. Mississippi.
The justices did not act on two sets of high-profile petitions that they considered last week: a group of challenges to bans imposed by Illinois and several municipalities in that state on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as challenges to bans on gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee and Kentucky.
See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Kentucky v. Watkins (2008) As a Halloween prank, restaurant manager Joe Watkins of the Chicken Ranch in Paris, Kentucky thought it was funny to lie in a pool of blood on the floor. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. 32; 285 S.W.
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