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US Justice Department to give $144.5M to victims of 2017 Texas mass shooting in settlement

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The survivors and families of the victims joined in a lawsuit against the US government, alleging negligence under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the government’s failure to prevent Kelley from purchasing a firearm despite his prior felony convictions.

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Intellectual property and Navajo water rights

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, two involve cases in which the court called for the views of the solicitor general, thus indicating (since it takes the vote of four justices to CVSG ) that there was already a high level of interest among the justices in the case. Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. trademarks. 14 and Oct. Khorrami v.

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Georgia man sentenced to death challenges state’s striking of Black jurors

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Kentucky , the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to strike jurors in a criminal trial because of their race. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. United States and Rita v.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Colorado Civil Rights Commission (relisted 14 times). As a statistical matter , a case that the Supreme Court repeatedly relists is more likely to be the subject of an opinion respecting denial or — where existing precedent is clear — a summary reversal or vacatur. relisted after the Feb. United States , 20-7617.

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International arbitration, McGirt retroactivity, and anti-discrimination laws

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a potential replacement for the now-dismissed Servotronics Inc. Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. In last year’s McGirt v.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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Court won’t hear Trump immunity dispute now

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on four felony counts relating to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s lawyers have also indicated that they plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that bars the Colorado secretary of state from listing Trump on the state’s presidential primary ballot.

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