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SCOTUS Rules Kentucky AG Can Defend Abortion Law

Constitutional Law Reporter

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. Although the litigation by that time had proceeded for years, that factor is not dispositive.

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Previewing the US Supreme Court’s October Sitting

Constitutional Law Reporter

.: Through more than two years of litigation, the Secretary of Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services led the state’s legal defense of its law prohibiting abortions in which an unborn child is dismembered while still alive. Over a dissent, the Sixth Circuit refused to allow the Attorney General to defend Kentucky law.

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North Carolina’s voter-ID lawsuit, racial bias in juries and a veteran’s disability claim

SCOTUSBlog

In his petition, George counters that a federal court’s interpretation of an unambiguous statute is not a mere change in interpretation but declares what the law has always meant. Kentucky when the evidence was not available to the petitioner during state court Batson proceedings. The case is George v. Broadnax v.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Kentucky v. As a Halloween prank, restaurant manager Joe Watkins of the Chicken Ranch in Paris, Kentucky thought it was funny to lie in a pool of blood on the floor. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Watkins (2008). 32; 285 S.W.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Kentucky v. As a Halloween prank, restaurant manager Joe Watkins of the Chicken Ranch in Paris, Kentucky thought it was funny to lie in a pool of blood on the floor. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. Watkins (2008). 32; 285 S.W.

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March Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: EAS and Next Gen TV Rulemaking Comments, Incentive Auction Reimbursements, TV Auction, GMR Licensing Deadline, and More

Broadcast Law Blog

Broadcasters already upload this information to their public file, and this update merely brings the FCC’s rules in line with the requirements of federal statute and thus has no practical effect on a station’s political file obligations. We wrote in more detail about these changes, here.

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Timber industry, federal government battle over preservation of southern Oregon forest

SCOTUSBlog

The bureau’s plan has been the subject of extensive litigation ever since it was first proposed, in 1995, to protect the habitat of the endangered northern spotted owl. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: American Forest Resource Council v. 1159(b).