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US Supreme Court refuses to reinstate West Virginia ban on transgender athletes

JURIST

The US Supreme Court Thursday refused to reinstate West Virginia’s ban on transgender athletes. They would have granted the state’s application and allowed the law to be enforced. The justices also reproached the lower courts for staying the law without explanation.

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US Chamber's Litigation Funding Concerns Spur 2 State Laws

Law 360

Chamber of Commerce about third-party litigation funding, including from potentially hostile foreign entities, state legislatures in Indiana and West Virginia have recently passed bills imposing restrictions on the practice. Amid concerns from the U.S.

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Opioid Companies Reach Tentative $161.5 Million Settlement in West Virginia

The Crime Report

Attorneys for the state of West Virginia and pharmaceutical manufacturers Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., Under the deal, West Virginia would receive more than $134.5 percent of the settlement will go to a nonprofit foundation established to distribute money in opioid-related litigations, 24.5 In addition, 72.5

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Decedent’s personal injury settlement did not become wrongful death proceeds after his death.

Day on Torts

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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Kafka in America: When Judges Don’t Know the Law

The Crime Report

Anthony Perkins in a still photo from Orson Well’s 1962 film version of “The Trial” In Franz Kafka’s sinister 1925 novel, The Trial, the hero finds himself the defendant in a court case where he is unaware of what law he has broken. In 17 states, judges with no law degree are permitted to adjudicate eviction cases.”.

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February oral argument scheduled for stay applications in “good neighbor” pollution rule challenges

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in February on whether to freeze a plan created by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce ozone levels across the United States while litigation over the plan continues in a federal appeals court. Three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to D.C.

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Compassionate-release, the First Step Act, and jurors on social media

SCOTUSBlog

When Allen Loughry II, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, was convicted of wire and mail fraud in 2018, discussion about the case, predictably, spread on Twitter. The court clarified one provision of the law last term in Terry v. United States. The new petitions, Watford v. United States.

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