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US Supreme Court hears arguments on relief available under disability protection laws

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The case addresses when an individual is eligible for relief under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Perez filed a complaint with the state’s Department of Education, saying that his school failed to give him a proper education and violated a variety of state and federal law.

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Vermont school district settles race, sex-based harassment complaint

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In a Thursday press release, the DOJ concluded that “ the district knew of, and did not respond sufficiently to, individualized harassment and a broader hostile educational environment in Twin Valley Middle-High School.”

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Practice Area Switcharoo: Become An Expert in Anything

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As you educate yourself about these issues, consider how you can use that legal brain of yours to help. Investigate Continuing Legal Education and Specialty Bar Groups. Educate yourself by seeking out relevant continuing legal education programs. Search the internet for “PracticeArea publications”. Don’t give up.

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Law Prohibits All Federal Employees from Representing Private Clients before the USPTO

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Kevin Correll worked for the US Navy as an engineer, but also moonlighted for years as a solo patent attorney (prosecuting 211 patent applications). That complaint was then decided against Correll an Administrative Law Judge and issued a 5-year suspension from practice. Board of Education , 391 U.S. EPA , 202 F.3d

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot. In a case before the D.C. Circuit, Texas v.

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In U.S. v. Texas, broad questions over immigration enforcement and states’ ability to challenge federal policies

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If this lawsuit is allowed to go forward, the administration warns, it will mean that any state could “sue the federal government about virtually any policy.”. The second question in the case is whether the policy is consistent with federal immigration law and the federal law governing administrative agencies.

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Divided court declines to reinstate Biden’s immigration guidelines, sets case for argument this fall

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A group of 19 states with Republican attorneys general, led by Arizona, filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting Texas and Louisiana. They portrayed the new policy as “the product of escalating lawlessness by DHS” and another chapter in “DHS’s serial refusals to consider the reliance interests of states.”.