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US federal court reverses ban on law requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains

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The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Monday reversed a preliminary injunction previously implemented to bar the enforcement of an Indiana law requiring fetal remains to be either buried or cremated by clinics that provide abortion. The laws require that only abortion providers either bury or cremate fetal remains.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court also declined to vacate BLM’s leasing decisions and instead enjoined BLM from issuing drilling permits for the leases while it responds to the court’s decision. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Ninth Circuit Rejected Claim That CEQA Applied to Taxi Rules for Airport Pickups. WildEarth Guardians v.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

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In July 2019, Georgia Southern University (“GSU”) invited Martin to speak at the 2020 International Critical Media Literary Conference. 50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. O.C.G.A. §

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The rise of certiorari before judgment

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Thus, starting in 1988 (when, as part of broader reforms to the court’s docket, Congress eliminated the ability to directly appeal to the Supreme Court district court decisions striking down state or federal statutes), the practice became all but moribund.

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Arthrex on Remand: Commissioner of Patents Drew Hirshfeld and the Problem of Shadow Acting Officials

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Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Hirshfeld has the legal power to fulfill the expanded job as required by the Supreme Court’s decision. — Dennis Crouch.

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Final Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

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79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. 166-172 (available here ) Brand, Ronald A. 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.