LegalReader

JULY 28, 2022

Speeding is also a clear sign of negligence.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Using strong language rarely seen in Supreme Court filings, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told the justices that they should “not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 13, 2021

Here’s the full list of cases scheduled for argument in the October session: Mississippi v. A lawyer and former judge appointed by the justices to review the case recommended that Mississippi’s complaint be dismissed. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd , 11th and Federal Circuits) have done or plan to do in the fall. Tennessee (Oct.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. Some were lawyers. He also founded the Constitutional Litigation Clinic (now the Constitutional Rights Clinic) at Rutgers. After his time as attorney general, he had a long stint in private practice that included arguing on behalf of a distributor of nudist magazines in Rosenbloom v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. They agreed to hear both cases before the court of appeals has fully weighed in, and they ordered an accelerated schedule for briefing and arguments not seen since the 2000 election litigation in Bush v. 8 — on hold.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. As lawyers, as women, as mothers, as advocates for children’s rights, we could easily despair.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1995, when Curtis was 27, lawyers sued the state on her behalf, demanding that she be transferred to a group home or other setting where she could receive better care.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

After the Washington attorney general learned about Stutzman’s refusal, he sued her for violating the state’s antidiscrimination laws, as did Ingersoll and his husband. The court added nine other cases to its docket for the 2021-22 term, on issues ranging from securities litigation to interstate water disputes. Mississippi v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Then there is a case on the court’s original docket , Mississippi v. Petitioner Anibal Canales argues he received ineffective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of his trial when his lawyer failed to introduce significant mitigating evidence, and that the U.S. We finish with good old private litigation. Tran , 20-1541.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After nearly three hours of argument by four different lawyers, the justices appeared likely to allow the case brought by a group of Texas abortion providers to go forward, even if they did not necessarily appear to agree on the rationale for that lawsuit. The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in two challenges to S.B.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Nonprofit Group and Its Board Member Sought to Unseal Records in Attorney General’s Suit Against Exxon. and non-U.S.

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