JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2024

.” In August 2023, the First Judicial District Court found that the right to a clean and healthful environment “includes climate as part of the environmental life-support system,” that the plaintiffs had legal standing, and that two Montana statutes were unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Pennsylvania county to count mail-in ballots that do not comply with a state law requiring voters to write the date on the ballot’s envelope. The post Court allows Pennsylvania officials to count ballots that arrived in undated envelopes appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 31, 2023

Justices Remand ‘Mallory’ to Trial Court, Registration Statute Uncertainty Expected to Linger; The Tuesday ruling shut down the defendants’ bid for a fast-tracked examination of whether or not the consent by registration statute violates the U.S. The post “Pa.

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JURIST

AUGUST 16, 2024

The judge concluded that the relevant statute here, Section 6(g) of the FTC Act, “falls short” of doing so. ” In a later win for the FTC, however, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the non-compete ban is lawful.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania agreed with the USDA and granted the motion for summary judgment. Under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the federal government is generally immune from suits by individual citizens unless Congress waives immunity and allows individuals to sue by passing a statute.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2023

The case resulted from Bryan Range’s appeal from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Range then sued, seeking a declaration that the statute violated the Second Amendment “as applied to him.” Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hardiman authored the opinion of the court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. (The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). If the final plan falls short, some litigants may well invoke this amendment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share The justices narrowly rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered in Pennsylvania and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else. of Philadelphia v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In addition, the Task Force Butler Institute sent a document totaling more than 200 pages to state and local prosecutors in Idaho, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and the DOJ, detailing the extremist group’s activities and suggesting criminal and civil statutes that may be actionable.

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Law 360

AUGUST 1, 2023

A Pennsylvania man must arbitrate his claims that ESPN parent company Walt Disney violated the state's wiretap statute by installing tracking software on ESPN.com, a California federal judge ordered Monday, finding that the website's terms of service include an arbitration provision that covers his suit.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Since the 1950s, though, the Supreme Court has relied on state law to fill “gaps” in maritime law that lack any federal statute or controlling federal precedent. Specifically, Great Lakes is a foreign insurance company that insured a yacht owned by Raiders, a Pennsylvania company. So exactly why would that question ever matter?

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Mondaq

JULY 20, 2021

On June 30, 2021, Governor Tom Wolf signed legislation to allow college athletes in Pennsylvania to earn compensation for the use of their name, image and likeness ("NIL").

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

To create the compact, each state passed statutes and, as New York’s bill of complaint indicates is a constitutional requirement for interstate compacts, Congress consented as well. However, in 2018, New Jersey passed a statute to withdraw from the compact, and on Dec. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has held.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 23, 2024

BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other major oil companies can't argue that a federal environmental statute sinks a climate change lawsuit because the claims fall outside of the law's purview, a Pennsylvania county told a state court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

But a Middle District of Pennsylvania court recently established one key limit on states’ authority to block new transmission lines through the siting process. PJM Interconnection is one such RTO, which oversees a region encompassing thirteen states, including Pennsylvania, along with the District of Columbia.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Pennsylvania lost a seat in the House of Representatives after the 2020 census, and so was required to draw a new map before the 2022 midterm elections. 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.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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.” Raiders Retreat filed five counterclaims.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , will be the second case argued on Monday, the opening day of the 2022-23 term. On one side is Delaware.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

A federal district court in Pennsylvania granted the government’s request and dismissed the case, and the U.S. She noted that dismissal is governed by Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but “differ[s] in two ways from the norm” given the specifics of the FCA statute. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit upheld that ruling.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

After he left the company, Mallory moved to Pennsylvania for a period before returning to Virginia. Mallory filed his lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court. In fact, Norfolk Southern has registered to do business in Pennsylvania in light of its “regular, systematic, [and] extensive” operations there. Washington , 326 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. In this case, there is no contention that the choice of New York law infringes on “any federal statute or established federal maritime policy.”

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

At the other end of the spectrum, New Jersey and Pennsylvania provide no homestead exemptions, while Virginia and Kentucky allow just $5,000. That would undermine “the protection a debtor has under the current homestead• exemption statute,” Drain wrote in a commentary.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

”) The Pennsylvania district court sided with the first-filer Kepner on priority grounds, and refused to decide the question of patentability. There is no real issue of invention between the parties here and we see no reason to read into the statute a district court’s compulsory duty to adjudicate validity. Kepner , 99 F.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Because the claims were based on Pennsylvania statutes, it argued, they were barred by the choice-of-law clause. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., GLI insured a yacht owned by Raiders.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Multiple States, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, argue that the common law does not apply because the abandoned proceeds of the Disputed Instruments are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Checks Act. In Delaware v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin : The case centers on what should happen to uncashed checks issued by MoneyGram, which is the second largest money transfer company in the world. McDonough: The case involves whether the doctrine of equitable tolling applies to a statute governing veteran benefits. Arellano v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

The other was a statute enacted in 2016, which limited third parties — postal workers, election officials, caregivers, family members, or household members — who could collect completed absentee ballots from voters. Pennsylvania , letting state election officials’ decisions stand.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. It also is an appeal that would be made by the United States over the invalidation of a federal statute. That triggered the federal ban.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

The dispute arose when PennEast obtained under the Natural Gas Act a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct a 116-mile pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania to western New Jersey.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Broadcasters already upload this information to their public file, and this update merely brings the FCC’s rules in line with the requirements of federal statute and thus has no practical effect on a station’s political file obligations. By that date, radio stations in Delaware and Pennsylvania must file a license renewal application.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

Norfolk Southern Railway Company , which focus on statute of limitations and personal jurisdiction issues. In Reed , petitioner Rodney Reed asked the court to decide when “the statute of limitations begins to run for an action under 42 U.S.C. The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

The dispute arose when PennEast obtained under the Natural Gas Act a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct a 116-mile pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania to western New Jersey. PennEast sought review by the Supreme Court, which was granted.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

We first saw this in the 2018 election with ads in Oregon, and later in Pennsylvania. The language of the FEC statute, as noted in italics above, if adopted for the states, could end up authorizing many committees to get LUR simply by having the candidate authorize them to “receive funds” or “make expenditures” on the candidate’s behalf.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

Extraterritoriality in Statutes and Regulations. Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Dodge , John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law. Judicial Extraterritoriality.

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