FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

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. District Court and won, prompting a government appeal to the D.C. In affirming the District Court’s ruling, the D.C.

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Patently O

JUNE 16, 2023

The statute requires that it be located in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Arkansas. The USPTO is now seeking comments on where the office should be located — and the methodology it should use in selecting a location. [ Fed Reg ].

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

I just don’t know of a case,” he told Stewart, challenging the constitutionality of a statute in which the Supreme Court has inquired into the relative ease or difficulty of other options when the challengers are opposed to using those options. How, he queried, “can that possibly be the law?”. Justice Stephen Breyer was also dubious. “I

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

While the FCC also found Fox responsible for transmitting the segment to its affiliates nationwide in violation of the rule, the FCC did not fine Fox as a programming network because the one-year statute of limitations period applicable to non-broadcasters had expired.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state. The United States legal system is immensely complex.

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

Before filing suit, plaintiff consulted with a friend who was an attorney in Louisiana. When that friend could not find a Tennessee lawyer to take her case before the statute of limitations ran out, he sent her a sample pre-suit notice form. Plaintiff thereafter filed this HCLA suit. internal citations and quotations omitted).

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Patently O

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Western District of Texas is a vast district, stretching more than 600 miles across from El Paso (on the western limits of the state) to Waco (which is much nearer to Louisiana than New Mexico). We have recently written an article in which we proposed a two-prong solution to the judge shopping problem.

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2022

Louisiana Judge Donald Johnson Tuesday granted a petition filed by reproductive health providers against the state’s abortion ban, the latest in a back-and-forth case set in motion after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Johnson granted a temporary restraining order against state laws designed to take effect after Roe v.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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JURIST

MAY 30, 2021

The Louisiana House of Representatives Thursday passed the controversial Senate Bill 156 requiring schools to designate athletic teams and sporting events based on the biological sex of the team members. The bill now moves to Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards to be signed into law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

The statute defines “crime of violence” as one that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another.” The justices denied review in Granier v. Both the state courts and the lower federal courts rejected Granier’s request for post-conviction relief.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We may, however, be shuffling toward clarity with a new ruling out of Louisiana in the case styled Vetter v. Courts regularly embrace different approaches to these two types of copyright cases, such as when applying the statute of limitations. Sort of like “Interstellar,” but for copyrights. Sections 203 and 304 of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This statute permits a defendant’s attorney to enter into plea negotiations with the U.S. 3553(a) (imposition of a sentence) requires a federal judge to consider the sentencing factors spelled out in that statute in order to impose a “substantively reasonable sentence.” These negotiations are known as “proffer meetings.”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. Judge Gregg Costa, joined by six other judges, wrote that “[t]he Supreme Court’s message is unmistakable: Courts should not assign federal criminal statutes a ‘breathtaking scope’ when a narrower reading is reasonable.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The companies filed their brief on November 16, arguing that the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that it was limited to reviewing removal based on the federal-officer removal statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

In Louisiana v. Hill , the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed a district court ruling that struck down two state statutes — one requiring sex offenders to obtain specialized identification cards (with the words “SEX OFFENDER” in all caps) and the other prohibiting alteration of such identification documents. Louisiana v.

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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.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s “right to control” theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person’s economic decision as a species of property fraud — states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute.”. United States v. Please check back for updates.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Louisiana that it precluded all suits against a state (or its agencies) in federal court, including suits brought by state citizens to enforce federal constitutional provisions. Despite the apparently narrow language of the amendment – limited to suits in federal court brought by non-citizens of the state – the court held in 1890 in Hans v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

His attorney then filed a specific constitutional challenge to § 922(g)(8), arguing that the statute violated Rahimi’s Second Amendment right to own and possess firearms. Thanks to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, that protection no longer exists in three Southern states—Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Supreme Court has held that the federal government assumes a trust obligation to assert reserved water rights for Native tribes only when it “ expressly accepts those responsibilities by statute ,” by regulation, or by treaty with a tribe. Louisiana , 21-993. relisted after the Oct. 28 conference). Returning Relists. 14 and Oct.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

There’s nothing in any of the statutes that say, ‘If an agency doesn’t do this within 30 days, the secretary can fine them $500 or penalize them.’ It is incumbent upon the agencies themselves to comply with these statutes.”. We don’t have any stick,” Newsome said.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Louisiana , 21-993. 1346 ; and (2) whether deception that deprives a person of “potentially valuable economic information,” without more, can constitute “money or property” fraud under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes. Trans World Airlines, Inc. and several courts of appeals have held). relisted after the June 23 conference).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Louisiana , 21-993. permits courts to defer to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the pro-veteran canon of construction; and (2) whether Chevron should be overruled. Until next time, stay safe ! New Relists. Returning Relists. 28 and Oct.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The report studied 39,253 people serving life-without-parole sentences in 20 states, representative of three-quarters of the LWOP population across the country.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 1981, Congress passed a statute requiring that reimbursement rates paid to organizations for managing state Medicaid plans must be “actuarially sound.” The case has already been rescheduled three times, clearly indicating it’s on at least one of the justices’ radar. Next up is Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue , 21-379.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. The States of Texas and Louisiana claim that the Guidelines contravene two federal statutes that they contend require the arrest of certain noncitizens upon their release from prison ( 8 U.S.C.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system. In a 5-4 decision, it struck down mandatory death sentencing statutes. In addition, a seven-justice majority found guided discretion statutes to be constitutional.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In November 2023, a judge dismissed the lawsuit, largely citing procedural reasons, such as being outside the statute of limitations and the plaintiff’s lack of standing, for dismissing the claims. The post Fifth circuit hears civil rights suit alleging racist land-use policies by Louisiana parish appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

She was charged under Louisiana law with malfeasance in office. The statute itself reads like criminalized negligence. The report was taken on August 23, 2021.”. She was ultimately dismissed after an investigation. What followed was relatively rare. What is interesting about the law is how broad the language is.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A federal appeals court in Louisiana agreed with Texan Zackey Rahimi, that the law, 18 U.S.C. § This use of “materially different means” to address the same problem targeted by Section 922(g)(8), Rahimi concludes, “tends to prove” that the statute is unconstitutional. But the Biden administration contends that the decision by the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

And she argues that Dobbs has nothing to do with mootness, because she was arguing her due process rights were violated through Chapman’s “ graft[ing] [of] a new notice requirement onto a statute that does not require notice ” rather than because of her abortion rights alone. But Doe nonetheless states that she does not oppose vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. Share This article was updated on June 23 at 2:19 p.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a unanimous 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Next up is Lackey v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana and eleven other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questioning their authority to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The statute at issue in Dobbs did not deal with a prohibition on medical care in such circumstances. The statute also specifically provides an exception where the physician believes a medical emergency exists. The statute also contains an exception for abortions “necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency.”.

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