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Pennsylvania top court rules for gas drilling firms in antitrust lawsuit

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the attorney general’s office does not have authority under the consumer protection law to sue natural gas exploration firms over their leasing practices. Therefore, the defendants asserted that they were not subject to action under the UTPCPL.

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The other Supreme Court ruling with big repercussions for U.S. health care

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Some experts also believe the ruling may lift a chilling effect among reputable providers who, fearing legal liability, stopped prescribing opioids when the government made cracking down on over-prescribers a central part of its response to the addiction crisis. This column was originally published on Oct.

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Morning Docket: 02.22.24

Above The Law

at a time when AI continues to hallucinate like a romantic poet on a laudanum bender some company actually thought "let's use this to see if applicants are lying!" [ Law.com ] * As expected , Alabama fertility providers are shutting off access to hopeful families after court ruling. [

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Alabama House of Representatives passes bill defining sex based on reproductive systems

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Other states, such as Nebraska and Oklahoma , have succeeded in enacting legislation that defines sex on reproductive terms, and Mississippi is currently attempting to do the same. In 2023, DuBose sponsored a bill that similarly sought to define sex based on individuals’ reproductive systems, but that bill was indefinitely postponed.

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Arizona dispatch: student delegates to Model Constitutional Convention pass proposed amendments on equal rights, tribal sovereignty, gerrymandering and eminent domain limits

JURIST

In my second dispatch from this Convention, I spoke with the amendment’s sponsor, Crispin South, a Choctaw law student at ASU and a delegate representing Oklahoma. He said the amendment was important to protect tribal sovereignty from Supreme Courts that often don’t understand the rights tribal nations have. New London.

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Doubts About Lethal Injection Drugs Reignite Capital Punishment Debate

The Crime Report

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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It’s Time For U.S. To Move Beyond Lethal Injection

The Crime Report

At least 75 of the lethal injection executed were terribly botched —most notably in Oklahoma and Alabama. . In 2014, Oklahoma tried unsuccessfully for 20 minutes to kill Clayton Lockett by lethal injection as he struggled in pain before dying of a heart attack in the death chamber some 43 minutes after the execution protocol got underway.