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Justices to hear procedural question in Maryland prison-assault case

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Share Kevin Younger was detained before trial at a state prison in Baltimore, Maryland. In the district court, Dupree argued that Younger’s suit could not go forward because he had not pursued all remedies, including internal grievance remedies at the prison, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal. Under federal law, cases filed in state court can be transferred – the technical term is “removed” – to federal court if they meet one of several criteria. Arguments of the oil companies.

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More Venue and Corporate Games: This time with ANDA filing

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The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. The FDA is headquartered in Maryland, and that was the office that received the ANDA documents. and probably also in Maryland, but not in N.J. Celgene Corp. Mylan Pharma ( Fed.

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Court revives federal appeal for oil and gas companies in climate-change case

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The city filed its case in a Maryland state court. That is precisely what Chevron did in this case: It transferred the suit to a federal court in Maryland – a procedure known as “removal.” The 4th Circuit ruled that it could review only whether removal was appropriate under the federal officer statute – which, it concluded, it was not.

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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

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One “friend of the court” brief filed in support of Pulsifer tells the justices that the lower court’s ruling “turns the statute on its head by foreclosing safety-valve relief for the vast majority of defendants to whom the statutory amendment might apply.” The case has drawn widespread interest.

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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

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In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Federal Court Limits State Authority to Deny Interstate Transmission Projects

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PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. For instance, in its 2013 report on Policies for a Modern and Reliable U.S.

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