SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Washington. A funny thing happened on the way to oral argument: The state of Washington modified the 2018 workers’ compensation law at the center of the case, raising the prospect that there is no longer a live dispute for the justices to resolve. The state’s old law, H.B. The state’s old law, H.B.

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Patently O

JUNE 28, 2022

The following year, Congress passed the first patent act that was then signed-into law by President George Washington. Three years later, Congress substantially rewrote the statute and, at that time changed the pronouns. The new law eliminated the female pronoun “she.” by Dennis Crouch. ” 447 U.S.

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2023

CNN ] * US News delays release of law school rankings following freak out from schools worried about what their own stupid boycott caused. He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As an example, the Federal Wire Fraud statute makes it a crime to use the “wires” to move forward with “any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.” But the federal fraud statutes at issue do not criminalize all such conduct.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2022

Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on the latest developments in that country as it defends itself against Russian invasion. During the first five days of combat, Russian forces attacked dozens of civilian targets, which do not qualify as legitimate military targets under international law.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

1, you're gonna have to opt-in for your plasticware in Washington. [ National Law Review ]. * A mob of one: Federal prosecutors are getting crafty with their statute application. [ appeared first on Above the Law. This makes a lot more sense than if Ja Rule were consulted. [ Do you want a fork with that shake?

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

After negotiations with the German government failed, the heirs filed a suit in the federal district court in Washington, DC, asserting several common law property claims and seeking $250 million in compensation.

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Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

Washington Post ] * Judge loses defamation suit over being linked to QAnon. Law360 ] * Of the previous 100 anti-LGBTQ+ statutes passed, half of them were this year. appeared first on Above the Law. * Ken Paxton on the verge of impeachment. And apparently that means it's time for a good old fashioned dumpster fire.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Lawyers and legal professionals using the AI-powered document drafting tool Clearbrief to create a legal brief or document will now be able to seamlessly view any case law they cite thanks to a partnership with the legal research and intelligence company Fastcase , the companies announced today. million seed round. .

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The court’s other task — interpreting federal statutes — remains markedly underrepresented. Similarly, securities laws have produced a steady diet of cases at the court each year since the adoption of the major securities statutes in 1933 and 1934. Two of the nation’s leading securities scholars, A.C.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A new law targeting gun traffickers, called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022, has allowed the Justice Department to charge more than 250 people and prosecute 207 over the past 16 months, Devlin Barrett reports for the Washington Post. Eighty people were charged with violating the law’s provision against straw purchasers.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Joseph Percoco was sentenced to six years in prison for violating a federal fraud law that makes it a crime to deprive members of the public of the intangible right to “honest services.” And those outsiders, she emphasized, could also be prosecuted under federal public-corruption laws by paying the defendant.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Supreme Court Is Asked to Hear a New Admissions Case on Race (Stephanie Saul & Adam Liptak, The New York Times) The Supreme Court and the Federal Officer Removal Statute (Steve Vladeck, One First) Supreme Court Blocks West Virginia Bid to Challenge CFPB Funding (Evan Weinberger, Bloomberg Law) The Supreme Court (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 11, 2024

Jevon Washington is a young adult in Katy, Texas, living with serious intellectual disabilities. Eight years ago, when Washington was in high school, he got into a fight with another student who bullied him about his disability. That day, though, Washington found the chill-out room in use.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. How do you see this technology changing the way legal writing is taught in law schools?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Dissatisfied with the decision, the heirs sued in Washington under the expropriation exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which provides that a foreign state is not immune from jurisdiction of the U.S. courts in cases “in which rights in property taken in violation of international law are in issue.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2021

Hate crime laws in the U.S. A comprehensive national review of hate crime laws by MAP shows gaps and variances in laws after a year-long focus on COVID-era hate violence directed at Asian Americans and Asian immigrants. In at least 13 states, law enforcement recorded hate crimes listed Black offenders at a rate roughly 1.6

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

In addition to the criminal penalties for violating RICO, the law also authorizes private individuals to bring civil lawsuits for an injury to their “business or property” as a result of the defendant’s “racketeering activity,” which the law defines broadly to include a wide range of criminal offenses.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Chevron doctrine, a pillar of administrative law, also looms large in the case. Natural Resources Defense Council , determines when a federal court must defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. HHS’s arguments are primarily based on other sections of the Medicare statute which use the phrase “entitled to.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Prosecutors had argued that the claim was spurious on the grounds that the teenager’s decision to bring an AR-15 to the protest made him an “initial aggressor” under Wisconsin law. jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2023

The Supreme Court has issued a number of decisions in recent years limiting the reach of the federal wire-fraud statute, which outlaws the use of “the wires” – including internet and phone lines – to commit fraud. The court reasoned that the focus of the wire-fraud statute is the misuse of U.S.

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The Fashion Law

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Kanye West’s brand is now facing off against the State of California, too, thanks to a new lawsuit that accuses the “high-end sneaker and retail clothing business” of violating state consumer protection laws that require online orders to be shipped within a certain time frame unless otherwise specified.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

The National Marine Fisheries Service construed the governing statute to allow it to require industry to pay the salaries of those monitors. Circuit held that the statute was reasonably read to allow the agency to require industry to pay the cost of federal monitors. A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. 17 and Mar.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2022

The district court held that the federal Quiet Title Act’s 12-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional, concluded that a reasonable landowner would have known that the government had been permitting public use of the road since the 1970s, and dismissed the case. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed. That’s all for this week.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 13, 2021

More than that, Canada Goose argued that Lee’s “subjective views” regarding fur-trapping standards “do not render [its] statements misleading or deceptive,” and that he has failed to show injury anywhere outside of Washington, D.C., and therefore, lacks standing to bring claims under other states’ consumer-protection statutes.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Washington. In reviewing Young’s case, the Georgia Supreme Court relied on a 1952 Supreme Court rejection of a challenge to a state law requiring a defendant to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is not guilty by reason of insanity. The 10th Circuit further ruled that the law discriminates on the basis of viewpoint.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A teacher in Washington was told to remove a “Blue Lives Matter” flag that she put up to support her brother who was a former police officer. We recently discussed a controversy over a teacher being told to remove an Antifa flag and Gay Pride flag. We now have the inverse case. The flag was surrounded by pictures of her brother.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

Both cases present the question whether statutes that authorize appellate courts to review final agency adjudications implicitly strip district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to those proceedings. The next two relists raise a related question: whether a habeas corpus statute, 28 U.S.C. Federal Trade Commission.

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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. Washington , 326 U.S. Bauman , 571 U.S.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

Cantil-Sakauye was the keynote speaker last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. “Every year, the state bar dues bill — the bill that lawyers have to pay for the privilege and right to practice law in California — goes before the legislature.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In 2011, Thompson borrowed $110,000 from Washington Federal Bank for Savings, a small bank in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, where the Daley family made its name. Washington Federal Bank for Savings shut down in 2017 in the wake of an embezzlement scheme by the bank’s executives, and a few days after the bank’s president died by suicide.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2023

The Administrative Procedure Act is a federal law that governs the procedures by which federal agencies propose and issue regulations. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v.

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