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2023 is the Year of New Consumer Rights

Diane Drain

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare. – Diane L.

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America’s Hidden ‘Constitution-Free Zones’

The Crime Report

Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. In effect, this means that nearly 60 million Americans live in states where the courts offer absolute immunity to federal officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. Jewell , No. 16-CV-1932 (D. 97182-0 (Wash.

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Abortion Battle Enters Second Phase

The Crime Report

Wade, o pponents of abortion are pushing for stricter bans at state levels—even criminalizing women who travel outside their states where abortion remains legal. South Dakota. South Dakota’s trigger law from 2005 went into effect immediately across the state, and South Dakota Gov.

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What to Expect in a Post-Roe World

JonathanTurley

The court has now declared that the future of abortion will rest with 330 million Americans rather than nine justices. As this matter returns to the states, it is striking to consider what has changed legally and socially in the past 50 years. South Dakota, Louisiana and Kentucky have immediate prohibitions that will come into effect.

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