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.

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JURIST

AUGUST 16, 2024

The judge concluded that the relevant statute here, Section 6(g) of the FTC Act, “falls short” of doing so. ” In a later win for the FTC, however, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the non-compete ban is lawful.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Arizonans currently are shielded from creditors on the first $150,000 of equity in homes they own and live in, thanks to a special provision in state law that’s designed to keep people from being thrown out on the streets. As laws change (they do all the time) your rights also change. – Diane L.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Perhaps some of the justices will even enjoy a return to their law-school days, as they consider whether state or federal law should govern the enforceability of maritime choice-of-law clauses. The question here is whether the rules for enforcing the choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract fall within one of those gaps.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2023

The case resulted from Bryan Range’s appeal from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This law prevented Range from purchasing a gun after his conviction. Range then sued, seeking a declaration that the statute violated the Second Amendment “as applied to him.” Circuit Judge Thomas M.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Often, when the parties are from different jurisdictions, they select a neutral forum and its law.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the group posted more than 1,000 pieces of racist propaganda between June and August, marched in Indianapolis, and in Boston in July, where they are accused of assaulting a Black man with shields.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. The Democratic National Committee challenged the two Arizona laws.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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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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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. , Washington , 326 U.S.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 23, 2024

BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other major oil companies can't argue that a federal environmental statute sinks a climate change lawsuit because the claims fall outside of the law's purview, a Pennsylvania county told a state court.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. United States , a case involving federal sentencing laws that – at least according to the defendant – turns on whether the word “and” in the federal law at issue means “and” or instead “or.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

But a Middle District of Pennsylvania court recently established one key limit on states’ authority to block new transmission lines through the siting process. PJM Interconnection is one such RTO, which oversees a region encompassing thirteen states, including Pennsylvania, along with the District of Columbia.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Pennsylvania lost a seat in the House of Representatives after the 2020 census, and so was required to draw a new map before the 2022 midterm elections. After a flurry of litigation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in late February voted 4-3 to impose a different map that would favor Democrats in 10 of 17 congressional districts.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , will be the second case argued on Monday, the opening day of the 2022-23 term. On one side is Delaware.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

The law also gives the government the option to decide whether to take control of the case (referred to as “intervening”) or instead allow the whistleblower to proceed. A federal district court in Pennsylvania granted the government’s request and dismissed the case, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit upheld that ruling.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The question presented was whether, under federal admiralty law, a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract can be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the “strong public policy” of the U.S. state whose law is displaced. LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. 922(g)(1), which bars ex-felons from possession of firearms.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. The post Delaware Loses Bid to Keep Uncashed MoneyGram Checks appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

A conference for a forthcoming Elgar Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality and International Law. Utrecht University (Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law). Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Rudy Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. International Jurisdictional Law.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin : The case centers on what should happen to uncashed checks issued by MoneyGram, which is the second largest money transfer company in the world. McDonough: The case involves whether the doctrine of equitable tolling applies to a statute governing veteran benefits. Arellano v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

The dispute arose when PennEast obtained under the Natural Gas Act a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct a 116-mile pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania to western New Jersey. As such, he asked, “Why doesn’t this fall within the plain text of the 11th Amendment?”

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Written by Martina Ticic, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law; Croatian Science Foundation ( HRZZ ) doctoral student. As such, the Academy was truly a place to be this summer for everyone wanting to learn more on the matters of private international law, as well as to connect with others who share the same or similar interests.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

The dispute arose when PennEast obtained under the Natural Gas Act a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct a 116-mile pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania to western New Jersey. PennEast sought review by the Supreme Court, which was granted.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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. See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information.

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Fordham Law News

JANUARY 5, 2024

When it comes to antitrust laws and their impact on American sports leagues, baseball is in a verifiable league of its own. 10] One of the oldest and most periodically contested exemptions to the antitrust laws is one that is solely held by the sport of baseball. 11] Despite the subsequent expansion of the Commerce Clause in Wickard v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

We first saw this in the 2018 election with ads in Oregon, and later in Pennsylvania. In a different section of the rule, requiring federal candidates to provide a certification to stations that they will abide by the “stand-by-your-ad” provisions of federal law when they mention an opposing candidate (i.e.,

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

Norfolk Southern Railway Company , which focus on statute of limitations and personal jurisdiction issues. In Reed , petitioner Rodney Reed asked the court to decide when “the statute of limitations begins to run for an action under 42 U.S.C. The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2025

” DeSantis has previously signed pro-gun legislation in the state into law, including a bill in April 2023 that allowed Florida citizens who are legally entitled to own guns to be able to carry them in most public places without a special permit.

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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. of Philadelphia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The question – whether state or federal law should govern the enforceability of maritime choice-of-law clauses – at first seems technical. Here, for example, a foreign insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. The argument suggests that the decision here will reconcile three of the court’s earlier cases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law. Oil pump, ( Creative Commons ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

When Patel later sought to adjust his status to lawful permanent resident and obtain a green card, a divided panel of the Board of Immigration Appeals denied him relief, holding that he is inadmissible because he “falsely represented” himself as a U.S. citizen for a benefit under state law. Becerra and with consecutive numbers.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced on Monday that Secretary of State Kathy Bookvar will resign from her position at the end of the week due to her department’s failure to advertise a proposed constitutional amendment that sought to extend the statute of limitations for victims of clergy sexual abuse.

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