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“It Simply Does Not Make Any Sense”: Judge Trashes Election Lawsuit by the Elias Law Firm

JonathanTurley

The Chief Judge of the Western Direct of Wisconsin, James Peterson (an Obama appointee), did not just reject but ridiculed the Elias Law Group challenge to a witness requirement for absentee voting. The state statute under § 6.87(2) The statute first sets forth in two sentences what the voter must certify on the ballot envelope.

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The Unique Challenge of Prosecuting Trump

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The tendency is to charge every possible charge, using every statute you can find, against every co-conspirator who played any role. Every ruling will generate two new issues to litigate. When combined, these pleadings will summon up a choking miasma of verbiage that drains momentum and obscures any prosecutorial theory of the case.

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To Protect New Fossil Fuel Waste Rule, BLM Cuts 95% of its Climate Benefits

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The Problem of Methane Leaks from Federally Managed Lands BLM administers an oil and gas leasing program on public lands under a variety of statutes, including the Mineral Leasing Act (“MLA”), the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, and the Indian Mineral Development Act. While Wyoming v.

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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

Indeed, just this week, the court turned down a challenge of a Wisconsin law imposing a lifetime ban on gun ownership for former felons, including cases involving nonviolent crimes. The high court has been carefully waiting for just the right case to address states and cities that have sought to limit gun rights.

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April 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. s consumer protection statute. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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Final Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

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Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 73-88 (available here ) Grodl, Lukas “Forum Non Conveniens Doctrine – post Brexit Applicability in Transnational Litigation”, Casopis pro právní vedu a praxis 30 (2022), pp. Mc Gill Journal of Dispute Resolution 6 (2019-2020), pp. 187-214 Coco, Sarah E.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. Given this “unmitigable prejudice,” the court concluded “that this litigation cannot, in good conscience, continue in the Tribe’s absence.”