Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

. … Judge Epstein’s tentative ruling would strike the extortion claim under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which blocks frivolous lawsuits that seek to limit free speech. The judge said Buzbee’s demand letter is clearly protected litigation activity. “It is a settlement with a non-disclosure element.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

a decision holding that an out-of-state corporation had agreed to jurisdiction in Missouri when, as required by state law, it appointed an agent to accept the legal papers that initiate a lawsuit. Some justices pushed back against Mallory’s efforts to rely on the history of consent laws and Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. In Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Jane Doe, then an unemancipated 17-year-old, went to Missouri state court seeking to be granted a judicial bypass under state law that would allow her to obtain an abortion without her parents being notified. Only one of those cases is newly relisted: Chapman v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , overruling Roe v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 21, 2024

Louis, Missouri , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. To demand “significance” is to add words—and significant words, as it were—to the statute Congress enacted. In doing so, the Court expressed doubt about the City’s prediction that employees will flood courts with litigation in the absence of a significant-injury requirement.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Louis, a Missouri court was faced with a claim from Carly Munoz who in 2019 sent to Six Flags’ Fright Fest with her cousin. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. However, the Missouri appellate court affirmed the ruling. __ The case of Castiglione v. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v. Six Flags St.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

YouTube Screenshot There is an interesting ruling in the ongoing litigation of the case of Mark McCloskey. The Missouri Court of Appeals has now prevented that return of the weapons by denying a motion for replevin. Louis appeared outside of their home in an armed standoff with protesters in St.Louis. Stephenson (Mo.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Missouri , they will consider a vaccine mandate for health care workers at facilities that receive federal funding. A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states. In the second case, Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The prior administration implemented that pause, incidentally, citing the same law that the Biden administration is using, but that move did not trigger litigation, which may reveal something about the motives of the plaintiffs. Further, any government action may produce benefits and costs for third parties.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday refused a request by Missouri to reinstate a state law that bars police officers from enforcing federal restrictions on the sale and ownership of firearms that the state believes violate the Second Amendment. Missouri Gov. Wimes barred Missouri from enforcing the law. 29, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. Here is the column: With the arrival of Halloween, little children and litigators will again celebrate their favorite holiday. Six Flags St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. Federal Court in Missouri Dismissed States’ Challenges to Biden Actions on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. Missouri v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Montgomery was convicted in 2008 of strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, and extracting the premature baby to pass off as her own child. Four separate cases relating to Montgomery’s execution reached the justices in emergency litigation over the past several days.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In Englewood, local resident Jeryl Turco has been litigating against her city’s regulation for nearly a decade, arguing that it frustrates her ability to share her religious opposition to abortion with patients entering the downtown abortion clinic. 1442(a)(1) , evaporates when the officer leaves federal office.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Not only is there a pending case on the docket of the Court that has long been viewed as a serious threat to Roe , but the White House and the House of Representatives are threatening immediate actions that could also create new challenges for pro-choice litigants. When the court voted for pro-choice litigants, it was deemed “balanced.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Two principal federal antitrust statutes govern agreements among competitors: the Sherman Act of 1890, which prohibits monopolization and unlawful trade restraints, and the Clayton Act of 1914, which identifies additional prohibited conduct, including with respect to interlocking directorates, and mergers and acquisitions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Recent wins depend on a range of claims, with one particularly significant victory involving the freedom of speech in Missouri, another based on pension obligations set forth in Oklahoma’s state Constitution, and a third addressing fiduciary duties in the state of New York. Ashcroft , was a strong rebuke of anti-ESG disclosure requirements.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE. Resolute Forest Products, Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 147.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Following the Biden administration’s decision to end MPP in early 2021, Texas and Missouri filed suit in federal court. 1225, an immigration statute that governs the removal of noncitizens filing claims for asylum and permits the return of asylum-seekers to contiguous nations pending proceedings.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The Trump administration followed an “attrition through enforcement” approach proposed in 2008 by Kris Kobach, who was at that time a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and later became Kansas’ secretary of state. Earlier this month, he was elected as Kansas’ incoming attorney general.)

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Patently O

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Missouri’s predominant purpose test, which inquires into whether the predominant purpose of using the famous person’s name or identity is to exploit its commercial value; or whether “the predominant purpose of the product is to make an expressive comment on or about a celebrity.” [15] But what remedy should the Federal Circuit provide?

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Texas and Missouri challenged the Biden administration’s efforts to terminate the policy. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the Supreme Court rejected requests from the Biden administration to temporarily put the district judge’s ruling on hold, prompting the government to revive the policy while litigation continued.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. s consumer protection statute. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

United States , the justices narrowed the scope of a federal criminal statute under which hundreds of Jan. The court in Corner Post ruled that the window to challenge an action by a federal agency, a six-year statute of limitations, begins to run when the plaintiff is injured, even if that injury comes long after the action occurs.

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