JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. This securities class action relies on the “fraud-on-the-market” theory, which was validated in the 1988 Supreme Court decision, Basic Inc.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2022

The Third Texas Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld a trial court’s decision to temporarily block the state from proceeding with an investigation into the parents of a transgender teenager. However, the court of appeals denied the state’s request, noting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri is not barred from enforcing a state law that criminalizes misleading advertisements of vegan food products as containing meat. Because of this, the appeals court denied the motion for a preliminary injunction but allowed the suit to proceed to trial on the merits.

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2024

The law is set to take effect on January 1, 2025, and is expected to face numerous legal challenges. A Federal Appeals Court overturned a similar law in Arkansas. The law bans social media accounts for children under the age of 14 and requires parental permission for accounts for children between the ages of 14 and 15.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Cedar Point Nursery v. The states of Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas also filed a brief in support , citing “a longstanding commitment to protecting private property rights.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to review the issue of whether shareholders can bring class action lawsuits that allege securities fraud. Arkansas Teacher Retirement , the questions the court has agreed to address are: Whether a defendant in a securities class action may rebut the presumption of.

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JURIST

MAY 24, 2023

The Christian Ministerial Alliance joined three voters Tuesday to file a lawsuit against the Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners and Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston over alleged voter dilution arising from Arkansas’ 2021 redistricting plan. Thurston and Simpson v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Notably, Gomez through his Complaint, is requesting declaration from the court that SB8 is unconstitutional. SB8 has resulted in severe legal controversy, with the Supreme Court denying an emergency request to block the ban earlier this month—a decision in which four justices dissented.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of two controversial abortion laws – and, more broadly, to clarify how lower courts analyzing abortion restrictions should apply last year’s fractured decision in June Medical Services v. These two new petitions join Dobbs v.

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. For many with legal problems, simply knowing the law and their rights is the first step toward achieving a resolution.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. Mississippi first came to the court in 2014. Share Mississippi v. Equitable apportionment cases started with Kansas v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

The second most-common reason was the prioritization of federal resources, followed by the suspect being subject to the authority of another jurisdiction and the federal government lacking legal jurisdiction to file charges. district court between 2005 and 2019, nine in ten were convicted.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

She contacted the Minneapolis police officer at the scene and shifted blame to Mohamud and her friends, according to court documents. Because of Weyker’s statements, which one court described as “ lies and manipulation ,” Mohamud and her friends were arrested on suspicion of tampering with a federal witness. Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

In 1998, the Supreme Court held that high-speed police chases resulting in death, due to “deliberate or reckless indifference to life,” do not violate substantive due process rights unless the officer intended to cause harm unrelated to the legitimate object of arrest. While the U.S. Next, in Frasier v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 16, 2014

She began her legal career in Columbus, Ohio while attending The Ohio State University. Air Force and brings her knowledge and experience of strategic planning, and her vision for the future of NALS to all legal professionals. Boone is a legal assistant with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP in Nashville, Tennessee.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades , Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments. The world closed in to keep the virus out, and so did the court. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 20, 2021

Data protection and legal issues. legal system, and as states take the lead on privacy laws—like California’s recent Consumer Privacy Act —there are increased calls for transparency and disclosure. Legal disclosure obligations also may be triggered by these devices. As GDPR considerations make their way into the U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2021

The Arkansas House of Representatives approved House Bill 1749 on Thursday, which will prevent schools from requiring teachers to refer to students by their preferred pronouns or name if they do not align with the student’s sex assigned at birth.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 saw the start of a headline-making legal scuffle between Peloton and Lululemon. Lululemon followed up shortly thereafter with a suit of its own, which it in California federal court , arguing that the exercise bike-maker is on the hook for design patent and trade dress infringement in connection with its sale of “copycat” athleticwear.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 5, 2023

They need to generate various legal documents conforming to the requirements of their state. Read more about DivorceHelp123 in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. DivorceHelp123 provides state and county specific court documents and calculations including complex financial affidavits.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A federal district court in Missouri Monday issued a preliminary injunction halting the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states. ” The 10 states where the injunction has effect are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Per the usual, there was a lot more going on than we could possibly cover but we did manage to feature highlights from the best volunteers and minds in the legal profession. ABAMidYear @ABAesq @BarPresidents @LaurenceEsq pic.twitter.com/aKfxmEQMV1 — Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) January 25, 2019. hails from Butte, Montana.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

The US Court of Appeals will be holding an oral argument on these and other issues raised on appeal on February 17. Always review these dates with your legal and technical advisors, and note other dates not listed here that may be relevant to your operations. A decision in the case is expected this summer.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The new rules are being challenged in court by the NAB and other groups arguing that they would place an unreasonable burden on broadcasters, by requiring that they manually investigate a DOJ database whenever they sell a block of time on their stations to make sure that the buyer is not an agent of a foreign government.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the latest legal battle over footwear, Vans is accusing Walmart of embarking on “an escalating campaign to knock off virtually all of [its] bestselling shoes” and running afoul of its trademark rights in the process. In the complaint that they filed in a California federal court on Monday, Vans and its parent company VF Corp.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. As such, the Federal District Court of Delaware has recently found itself at the center of this high-stakes debate about transparency and the purpose of the courts.

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The Fashion Law

APRIL 28, 2021

Given the lack of concrete legal definitions for terms, such as “sustainability,” “green,” “eco-friendly,” “ethical,” etc., The court allowed that class action to move forward, on the basis of allegations that Equifax had misled investors with generic statements like ‘[s]afeguarding the privacy and security of information.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In choosing rational basis, the judge stated that “the Supreme Court has not recognized transgender status as a suspect class,” and “has repeatedly declined to do so.” The ruling shows a growing divide in the federal court system on how to approach gender-affirming care bans.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 25, 2023

However, if incarcerating more people was a panacea for public safety, states such as Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas would be among the safest states in the country. Under this legislation, the gun could be perfectly legal and in the trunk of a vehicle.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment. In Netchoice, LLC v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday that an Arkansas law prohibiting state contracts with companies that refuse to pledge against boycotts on Israel is an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The Arkansas Times printed advertisements for a local technical college for many years.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The hazard—a wrongful conviction, for example—has to pass through a police screen, a forensics screen, a prosecution screen, a grand jury screen, a defense screen, a jury screen and, ultimately, appellate court and collateral review screens, before it takes final effect. As a structural matter the legal machinery is blind to this reality.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2021

US District Judge Kristine Baker on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against SB6, or Act 309, an Arkansas law that would ban all abortions. . The bill was sponsored by Senator Jason Rapert from District 35 of Central Arkansas. He is expected to appeal the constitutionality of this law to the Supreme Court.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

“Court Tosses Arkansas Redistricting Lawsuit After Limiting Voting Rights Act; Federal judge ruled private parties don’t have a legal right to sue”: Jacob Gershman will have this article in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“Federal Court Moves to Drastically Weaken Voting Rights Act; The ruling, which is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, would effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups from suing under a key provision of the landmark law”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report.

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