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The morning read for Tuesday, August 22

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

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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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Court schedules February argument session

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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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D.C. Circuit Sides with Manufacturers in Latest 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

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Carole Johnson (consolidated cases), the Court found that the conditions set by Novartis and United Therapeutics on covered entities did not violate the 340B statute, although more restrictive conditions could violate the law. This decision may encourage more state-level efforts to adopt similar laws.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

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Following an explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia that killed 29 miners, federal prosecutors charged Don Blankenship, then the CEO of the company that owned and operated the mine, with willfully violating safety regulations. These and other petitions of the week are below: Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v.

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As drought persists in the west, justices to consider Navajo Nation’s rights to Colorado River

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The Navajo Nation reservation is about the size of Ireland or West Virginia, with large portions bordered by the Colorado River. Over one hundred years ago, the Supreme Court found that the creation of Indian reservations arising from Indian land cession treaties in the arid west necessarily created Indian reserved water rights.

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The Slippery Notion of Boycotts in the Anti-ESG Movement

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Photo credit: GRIDArendal on Visualhunt Antitrust – a previously dormant area of law and federal enforcement – has reached a new zenith in recent years. Antitrust law defines guardrails to address boycotts led by corporations. What is a Boycott, according to antitrust law? What actions, and what changes, are inspired?

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