SquirePattonBoggs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In its decision, the Court took the uncommon step of sua sponte certifying a question of state law (here, Ohio law) to a state supreme supreme court (the Ohio Supreme Court). Why it did so reveals some key insights into how the Sixth Circuit thinks about state-law certification. Purdue Pharma L.P.,

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share The justices narrowly rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered in Pennsylvania and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else. of Philadelphia v. of Ireland v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Share Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority , which the Supreme Court will hear on Monday, involves the collective-bargaining rights of “dual status” military technicians who work in the Ohio National Guard. The union filed another unfair-labor-practice charge with the FLRA in April 2017.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 31, 2025

Delaware has long been the preferred state of incorporation for corporations due to its business friendly legal framework, its specialized Court of Chancery, and its well-developed and unified body of corporate law. 18] Another jurisdiction that seems to be entering the incorporation battleground is Ohio. 2] See id. [3]

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The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

attorneys investigated 1,864 suspects in matters involving violations of federal hate crime laws during that period, said a BJS report released Thursday. Department of Justice (DOJ) are jointly responsible for enforcement of criminal civil-rights statutes, according to the BJS report.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S.

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SquirePattonBoggs

JANUARY 13, 2021

Whitmer , which upheld the State of Michigan’s alcohol delivery laws in the face of a dormant Commerce Clause challenge. In 2016 Michigan enacted a statute permitting licensed retailers (the third tier) to offer home delivery. The Court declined to review the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Lebamoff v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share A pair of challenges to controversial social media laws in Texas and Florida and a dispute over whether to freeze the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce ozone levels across the United States headline the Supreme Court’s February 2024 argument calendar , which was released on Friday morning. NetChoice LLC , on Feb.

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Patently O

JULY 24, 2024

Latty Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law In a flurry of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has continued its skepticism of administrative agencies. deference to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes) in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Guest post by Arti K.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. , of Philadelphia v.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

This post is by Carlos Manuel Vázquez , a professor of law at Georgetown Law School. Supreme Court last summer, the case is now before the Ninth Circuit for decision of the legal question that is likely to be decisive: which law governs? It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Instead, it originally proceeded as a multidistrict litigation, with thousands of plaintiffs and dozens of industry defendants consolidated before a single judge in federal district court in Ohio. Although the statute formally allows for only pre-trial consolidation, 99% of cases consolidated into MDL settle.

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Hoban Law Group

JUNE 8, 2021

These requirements are mandated by various laws and regulations and can be challenging to navigate. As you might suspect, these tips are not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather provide a helpful starting point to ensure your labels are compliant with all applicable laws and regulations.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. Her clinical teaching includes post-conviction, criminal defense, general civil practice, elder law and externship. She serves as the project’s co-director.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

One of the most closely watched is Ohio v. Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority: The case stems from a collective-bargaining dispute between the Ohio National Guard and the union that represents its technicians. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Muth , 491 U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. The law on this subject is complicated. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vanda argues that the law of obviousness requires more than simply a reasonable expectation of success. Rather, both the statute and the US constitution simply required an “invention.” Section 103 Codifies Prior Precedent Prior to 1952, the patent act did not include a statutory obviousness standard. ” Graham v.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

According to AstraZeneca, the statute defines a qualifying single source drug by reference to its individual “approval,” and “any other reading. contradicts the plain text of the statute and therefore must be set aside.” Opinion at 17. see also 42 U.S.C. 1320f-1(e)(1)(A).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

However, the Court remanded the cases back to the lower courts after concluding that neither court properly analyzed “the facial First Amendment challenges” to the laws. Facts of the Case In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted statutes regulating large social-media companies and other internet platforms.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Faraz Siddiqui — Last week, a federal court in Ohio denied a preliminary injunction motion by four Chambers of Commerce in their lawsuit against the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. As such, that statute was unjust, confiscatory and violated their constitutional due process rights. See Motion at 11. Order at 22.

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Patently O

MAY 30, 2024

2023) has set the stage for a potentially significant Supreme Court case on the interplay between the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute, 35 U.S.C. § ” Brief for New York Intellectual Property Law Association as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner at 23, Cellect, LLC v. Ohio Brass Co. , 23-1231 (U.S. May 28, 2024).

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SquirePattonBoggs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Yes, recent law grads, that is the same Carpenter decision you read in your constitutional criminal procedure class.) Judge Griffin supported his reading with the familiar canon positing that, when courts interpret statutory language using common-law terms, courts “presume that Congress employs their common-law meaning.”

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. Rather, the validity of HB 214 should be decided using the “undue burden test.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Mackenzie Damon went to college in Ohio and worked in the Ohio House for several years before coming to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 1L.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., orders) that aid the exercise of their jurisdiction even though no statute expressly authorizes the orders. In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio.

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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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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

These advocates garnered at least 383,923 signatures from eligible Arizona voters in support of the amendment as required by state law to include it on the ballot. Rather, the court determined a reasonable person would be able to understand if the amendment were adopted, present law that contradicts it would be rendered invalid.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered there and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else. The legal doctrine at the center of the case, Mallory v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

A group of Arizona plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday seeking to block implementation of two provisions of an abortion law set to go into effect in September. The personhood provision, on the other hand, “alters the entire Arizona Revised Statutes.”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Bartlett v.

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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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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2023

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.” Kansas lawmakers recently overrode their governor’s veto so they could enact S.B.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 13, 2022

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. This favored the first meaning.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ohio Department of Youth Service involves an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claims she was discriminated against for being straight as less-qualified LGBT colleagues in Ohio’s youth corrections system were promoted. Such a rule, he argued, discriminates on the very grounds that the statute forbids. Harvard College.

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