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US Supreme Court allows North Carolina Republican lawmakers to defend voter ID law

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North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that two Republican state legislators may step in to defend the state’s voter identification law, even though the state’s Democratic attorney general is already doing so. The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Berger v. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion.

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Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed

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Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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Pennsylvania’s congressional map returns to the court

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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. Ten days later, Republican challengers in the North Carolina case filed a cert petition; that petition was up for consideration at the justices’ conference this week.

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Bald-Faced Attempt to Manipulate Venue Rejected

Patently O

Ikorongo Texas is a Texas LLC (corporate registration in Texas), but its owners and managers all reside in North Carolina. Ikorongo Texas is plainly recent, ephemeral, and artificial—just the sort of maneuver in anticipation of litigation that has been routinely rejected. [T]he But, the defendants argued that N.D.Cal.

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Split the Cake to Eat it Whole: Ikorongo Argues for its Divide and Conquer Strategy

Patently O

Ikorongo Texas is also a Texas LLC (corporate registration in Texas), although its principles reside in North Carolina. To be clear Samsung and LG have previously litigated in Texas, they have lawyers in the state and lawyers willing to go to the state. The inconvenience of litigation is almost a total farce here.

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Twelve cases added to Supreme Court calendar

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The doctrine at the center of the case is known as the voluntary cessation doctrine – the principle that plaintiffs can continue to litigate their case unless the defendant shows that it cannot simply resume the conduct that prompted the lawsuit after the case is dismissed. The plaintiff in the case, Yonas Fikre, is a U.S. In Corner Post v.

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Certified Questions To State Supreme Courts Are Especially Rare In The Sixth Circuit

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All states, except North Carolina, have rules or statutes allowing their highest court to accept certified questions from federal courts on questions of state law. Assuming those numbers are accurate, litigants in the Sixth Circuit will have an uphill battle attempting to get an answer on state law from a state supreme court.

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