SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Washington. A funny thing happened on the way to oral argument: The state of Washington modified the 2018 workers’ compensation law at the center of the case, raising the prospect that there is no longer a live dispute for the justices to resolve. 5890 under Washington law. The state’s old law, H.B. The state’s old law, H.B.

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2023

He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. But who really believes in holding people to the explicit text of a statute, huh? Washington Post ] * Ron Klain heads back to O’Melveny. That seems bad.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

And Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Kathy Griffin Cleared in Case Brought by Covington Catholic Students; Kentucky’s long-arm statute does not allow students to bring harassment claims against comedian Kathy Griffin and a New York doctor for tweets sent in the aftermath of a viral Washington Monument standoff.”

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Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

Washington Post ] * Judge loses defamation suit over being linked to QAnon. Law360 ] * Of the previous 100 anti-LGBTQ+ statutes passed, half of them were this year. * Ken Paxton on the verge of impeachment. And apparently that means it's time for a good old fashioned dumpster fire. of papers outside his office. It's fricking May. [

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

1, you're gonna have to opt-in for your plasticware in Washington. [ A mob of one: Federal prosecutors are getting crafty with their statute application. [ This makes a lot more sense than if Ja Rule were consulted. [ Do you want a fork with that shake? Starting Jan. The Daily News ]. * "Yeah I serve it, but I don't touch the stuff."

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Supreme Court Is Asked to Hear a New Admissions Case on Race (Stephanie Saul & Adam Liptak, The New York Times) The Supreme Court and the Federal Officer Removal Statute (Steve Vladeck, One First) Supreme Court Blocks West Virginia Bid to Challenge CFPB Funding (Evan Weinberger, Bloomberg Law) The Supreme Court (..)

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2022

Ukraine has not yet become a State Party to the Rome Statute of the ICC. However, Ukraine legally accepted the ICC’s jurisdiction over alleged crimes under the Rome Statute occurring on its territory. While political decisions must be taken in Brussels and Washington D.C Ukraine’s defeat will mean the end of law.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 18, 2021

6 Capitol breach with violating a federal law that makes it a crime to transport a firearm or explosive for unlawful use in a riot, reports the Washington Post. prosecutors in Washington have charged at least 120 riot defendants in 90 cases with violations of that or a related section in the afternoon storming of the Capitol.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 11, 2024

Jevon Washington is a young adult in Katy, Texas, living with serious intellectual disabilities. Eight years ago, when Washington was in high school, he got into a fight with another student who bullied him about his disability. That day, though, Washington found the chill-out room in use. Campbell v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

After negotiations with the German government failed, the heirs filed a suit in the federal district court in Washington, DC, asserting several common law property claims and seeking $250 million in compensation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Previously, an Antifa leader located at George Washington University declared “we are winning” after efforts to topple historical monuments in Washington. In Washington, police made the “tactical decision” to stand by and watch a mob destroy a statue. He might be right.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

As faithful readers of our blog know, FDA’s broad interpretations of its governing statute have not always fared that well in the courts. Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has limited the Agency’s discretion to interpret the statute as it sees fit. In each of three cases— Genus v. FDA , Catalyst Pharms., FDA —the D.C.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Dissatisfied with the decision, the heirs sued in Washington under the expropriation exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which provides that a foreign state is not immune from jurisdiction of the U.S. Put simply, the Court viewed the statute as linked to direct expropriation of alien property, and not as a way for U.S.

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Law 360

MAY 1, 2024

A Washington state appeals court sided with Monsanto on Wednesday, undoing a $185 million jury verdict for three teachers who claimed they were sicked by PCBs at a Washington school site and ruling the case could be limited by the Evergreen state's 12-year statute of repose for product liability claims.

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Patently O

JUNE 28, 2022

The following year, Congress passed the first patent act that was then signed-into law by President George Washington. Three years later, Congress substantially rewrote the statute and, at that time changed the pronouns. 303, 308 (1980) (quoting 5 Writings of Thomas Jefferson 75–76 (Washington ed. by Dennis Crouch.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As an example, the Federal Wire Fraud statute makes it a crime to use the “wires” to move forward with “any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.” But the federal fraud statutes at issue do not criminalize all such conduct.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Natural Resources Defense Council , determines when a federal court must defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. First, under step one, if the court determines Congress’ intent is clear and unambiguous in the statute, the court will interpret the statute according to its terms, without deferring to the agency.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

The department pointed to the Arizona statute allowing a defendant sentenced to death to choose between lethal injection or lethal gas at least 20 days before the execution date. Lethal gas is permitted for executions in six other states: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyoming.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2023

The Supreme Court has issued a number of decisions in recent years limiting the reach of the federal wire-fraud statute, which outlaws the use of “the wires” – including internet and phone lines – to commit fraud. The court reasoned that the focus of the wire-fraud statute is the misuse of U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The decision forced federal and state governments to review their statutes to ensure that administration of the death penalty did not discriminate and was applied consistent to the Eight Amendment, prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. A database built by the Washington, D.C.-based

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A new law targeting gun traffickers, called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022, has allowed the Justice Department to charge more than 250 people and prosecute 207 over the past 16 months, Devlin Barrett reports for the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Compulsory training on this “duty” would augment its effectiveness, Kaufman adds.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2022

The district court held that the federal Quiet Title Act’s 12-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional, concluded that a reasonable landowner would have known that the government had been permitting public use of the road since the 1970s, and dismissed the case. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed. That’s all for this week.

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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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Above The Law

MARCH 5, 2025

(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) One of the quickest lessons you pick up in law school is that the path to knowing the law doesn’t end at finding a line in the Constitution or a statute and reading it aloud to anyone who would hear it.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The court’s other task — interpreting federal statutes — remains markedly underrepresented. Similarly, securities laws have produced a steady diet of cases at the court each year since the adoption of the major securities statutes in 1933 and 1934. Two of the nation’s leading securities scholars, A.C.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Its patented AI examines legal documents and automatically finds and displays any citations to the factual source documents cited — such as exhibits, depositions or transcripts — as well as case law, statutes and regulations.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A teacher in Washington was told to remove a “Blue Lives Matter” flag that she put up to support her brother who was a former police officer. We recently discussed a controversy over a teacher being told to remove an Antifa flag and Gay Pride flag. We now have the inverse case. The flag was surrounded by pictures of her brother.

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Patently O

JUNE 16, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO began establishing satellite offices a decade ago to expand beyond the traditional Alexandria (Washington DC) headquarters. The statute requires that it be located in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Arkansas.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. Goertz , involving the question of what statute of limitations state prisoners face when raising claims seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2025

Between 2011 and 2014, Thompson took out three loans, totaling $219,000, from Washington Federal Bank for Savings, a small bank on the South Side where the Daley family made its name. But they were not false, he insisted, because he indicated only that he had borrowed $110,000 from Washington Federal not that he owed $110,000.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 25, 2021

He later sued Heard in Virginia for libel in light of a Washington Post column in which he claimed she had falsely characterized him as a domestic abuser. ” So the court should first ask whether the judgment is entitled to recognition under the statute and then, only if the answer is no, ask about comity. 4101 et seq.,

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

Gonzalez — In a new publication in the Washington Legal Foundation’s (WLF) Legal Backgrounder , we argue that FDA’s recent proposed rule regulating Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) is vulnerable to legal challenge, once finalized. By Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Steven J.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2023

When the Fed filed a motion to dismiss the groups’ complaint, arguing that the statute of limitations had run because it had issued the rule 10 years ago, the groups amended their complaint to add the Corner Post, a truck stop in Watford City, North Dakota that first opened for business in 2018. Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v.

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