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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Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

Monsanto has again urged an appellate court to reverse a nearly $200 million jury verdict for PCB poisoning, arguing the Washington Supreme Court's recent decision throwing out the state's eight-year limit on malpractice claims did not invalidate the state's products liability statute of repose.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

FBI investigators determined that Meredith traveled to Washington, DC on January 6 with plans to attend rallies following the riots at the US Capitol. As Meredith’s text message traveled between DC and Georgia, the federal government had the necessary interstate jurisdiction to prosecute him under this statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Marimow, The Washington Post) On the heels of another mass shooting, the Supreme Court prepares to hear a gun rights case from Texas (Joshua Zinn, Houston Public Media) In Texas, Local Laws to Prevent Travel for Abortions Gain Momentum (J.

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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

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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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. A broad and unclear definition of “corruptly”, she argued, would chill gift-giving to public officials as well as to employees of private entities covered by the statute. I feel like we’re in a Senate room drafting language [of a statute].

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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 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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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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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2023

The Council of the District of Columbia has approved an emergency public safety bill aimed at addressing the increase in violent crime and homicides in Washington, D.C., The MPD previously interpreted local statute as mandating a no-pursuit policy. Martin Austermuhle reports for DCIst.

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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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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “ Appeals court reinstates Texas’s six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted.” ” Ann E. ” You can access last night’s per curiam order of a three-judge panel of the U.S. .” Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

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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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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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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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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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JURIST

AUGUST 14, 2021

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously held that a homeless person’s vehicle automatically qualifies as a homestead without the need for a declaration and that the impoundment of that vehicle and associated costs constitute excessive fines—a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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. Washington (1945). It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog.

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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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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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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2021

The report says that as a consequence of bias in the criminal justice system, the statutes meant to protect racial minorities and marginalized groups are less effective. Marita Etcubañez, senior director for strategic initiatives at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC in Washington D.C., Hate crime laws in the U.S.

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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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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 16, 2021

The claims arose under Washington law and were brought in a federal court in Washington. But Washington law prohibits the use of arbitration clauses in insurance contracts, and CLMS argued that under the McCarran-Ferguson Act and the doctrine of reverse preemption, state law preempted the Convention.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

“We pointed to Arizona, we pointed to Utah, we pointed to Washington, and we pointed to Michigan and its efforts, and we have a program to offer. “But the legislature has just now, at least written in statute, the inability to proceed with that.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A Washington state couple contends that the tax, known as the “mandatory repatriation tax,” violates the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to impose an income tax. The justices will also hear oral argument on Dec. 5 in a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that required U.S.

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