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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 24, 2025
In 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives the FDA the power to regulate tobacco products and requires manufacturers to obtain the FDAs permission before putting a new tobacco product on the market. In 2016, the FDA issued a rule indicating that the law applies to e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 27, 2025
City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Share Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday , is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation. But can bankruptcy court solve a public health crisis? As William Harrington, the U.S. Trustee argues is different.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
In response to the ruling, Illinois Governor Pritzker stated : The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed what gun safety advocates have said from day one—the Protect Illinois Communities Act is a commonsense law that will keep Illinoisans safe. This is not the only litigation involving PICA. 50 caliber rifle and certain pistols.
JURIST
OCTOBER 20, 2023
The California law makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, import, keep for sale or lend assault weapons. Additionally, Benitez took issue with the fact that the law penalizes law-abiding citizens and “takes away” the choice from California residents to use AR-15s for self-defense.
JURIST
MARCH 24, 2022
Sotomayor wrote separately “to underscore the interaction between prison officials’ obligations to set such rules and the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Since that day, Ramirez has manufactured more than a decade of delay to evade the capital sentence lawfully imposed by the State of Texas.
JonathanTurley
JULY 12, 2021
The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. It is doubtful that Cuomo truly believes that the law will make a significant, if any, impact on gun violence. The new law is written to get around a federal ban on such lawsuits. Of the $138.7
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