JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2024

The court reasoned that even though Malaysia had a valid original title to Pedra Branca, Malaysian authorities demonstrated no intention to claim ownership of the island from the British colonial government in 1953. The then Attorney General Idrus Harun contended that the withdrawal was “improper.”

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JURIST

APRIL 14, 2024

Hunter Biden’s original motion to dismiss the charges alleged that the appointment of Special Counsel David Weiss, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2023, was unlawful under Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations , which state that “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2023

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin to help Ukraine with its ongoing Russian war crime investigations and assist the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S. Ibarguen v.

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2022

In the complaint, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues that under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) the federal government does not have the power to “force hospitals and doctors to commit crimes and licensure under Texas law.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2023

The majority concluded that the Commonwealth Court’s “unsubstantiated remand significantly undercuts the statute’s aim.” Mundy asserted that the majority errored by “focusing exclusively on expediency” and not giving “effect to the statute as a whole.”

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Law 360

JANUARY 22, 2024

In Canada, multiple statutes, regulations, common law and industry guidance address environmental, social and governance considerations, with debate over ESG in the business realm potentially growing on the horizon, say attorneys at Blakes.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in two cases involving a requirement for herring fisheries to pay for the observers the government used to monitor overfishing. Justice Samuel Alito spoke to a concern that the “ deference forces courts to favor the federal government at citizens’ expense.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § When ATF’s final rule went into effect, Cargill surrendered his bump stocks to the government and went to federal court to challenge the regulation. Cargill , the government the justices to weigh in. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In both United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In Cameron , the justices are considering whether the Kentucky attorney general can intervene to defend a state law restricting abortion after another state official declined to do so. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. The attorney general, she contended, “agreed to be bound by final judgment and chose not to appeal it.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 3, 2021

Share The Supreme Court won’t weigh in on whether a West Point cadet who was sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate can sue the federal government. The justices asked the federal government to provide its views in two cases. There is no deadline for the acting solicitor general to provide the government’s views in these cases.

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JURIST

JUNE 5, 2023

.’” The court went on to reason that: The government has no valid publicity interest that could overcome the First Amendment protections afforded to the political criticism embodied in Elster’s mark. In a piece for Bloomberg Law last year, prominent intellectual property attorney David G.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The first bill, SB77 takes aim at the governing structure of the ADAH. This would mean that the ADAH would be governed by a board of political appointees from the same party, as Republicans hold all the positions mentioned in the bill. Boyd, a retired attorney, former US magistrate judge and the chair of the ADAH’s current board.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Cordero-Garcia , involving whether a federal law that allows the government to deport noncitizens convicted of “an offense relating to obstruction of justice” applies even to cases that are not connected to open investigations or judicial proceedings. The government’s reading of ‘relating to,’” they warn, “has no meaningful limit.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It avers that the law “unconstitutionally intrudes on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens and therefore is field preempted.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In both cases, the noncitizens are subject to deportation orders but are seeking “withholding of removal,” a form of humanitarian protection that would bar the government from removing them to a country where they would face persecution or torture. Arteaga-Martinez , is whether the post-removal detention statute, 8 U.S.C.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2022

California's attorney general has waded into the app store dispute between Epic Games and Apple, telling the Ninth Circuit the state's unfair-competition law covers conduct not governed by the antitrust statutes, despite Apple's claim to the contrary.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

For each of the conditions that the federal government identifies as requiring abortion as a stabilizing treatment, Kavanaugh observed, the state now contends that Idaho law actually would permit an abortion. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argues for the government. Congress has given you lots of tools,” he told Prelogar.

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

Former New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal passed Law Enforcement Directive 2018-6 , also called the Immigrant Trust Directive (“the Directive”), in November 2018 to allay undocumented immigrants’ fears about being turned over to immigration authorities when reporting a crime.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

” Under rational basis review, a court will uphold the law as constitutional if the government has a legitimate interest in enacting the statute and the law is rationally related to that interest. The court noted that, under this standard, legislation has a “strong presumption of validity.”

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

But earlier this year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened up a new battleground: the home. To be clear, there has been no change in the law governing child abuse, nor will there be for at least a year, since the Texas Legislature is not currently in session and meets biennially. Only a Pause.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

government deported him to Mexico. The government reinstated his prior removal order. An intricate statutory scheme defines the government’s power to detain noncitizens and on what terms. The Supreme Court previously held that the post-removal statute contains an implicit time limit. After one such entry, the U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 28, 2023

The recent addition of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charge in federal prosecutors’ case against FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried appears to be the first crypto-related indictment under the statute, and by using yet another tool in its arsenal, the government is showing it will continue to aggressively crack down on crypto crime, say attorneys at (..)

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

In the intricate scene of the legal sphere, attorneys are the ones who mostly grab all the attention due to famous trials and their outcomes, TV shows, movies, and let’s face it, their income. Yet, behind every successful attorney stands a diligent and indispensable ally: the paralegal.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert Thursday warning New Yorkers of deceptive gambling advertisements ahead of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. In Ohio, Nebraska, and Florida, legislation has passed and legalization is pending as state governments plan how to roll out their systems.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

The personhood provision, on the other hand, “alters the entire Arizona Revised Statutes.” Emily Nestler, Senior Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, called the law “an affront to our constitutional rights and our ability to make private decisions free from government intrusion.”

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2024

Florida Statute Section 456.52 The defendants, speaking through their attorneys, have admitted it. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Florida ban on certain gender-affirming care including puberty blockers and hormone therapy was illegal under the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. Gender identity is real.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Mackey argued that the indictment should be dismissed because the government failure to establish a proper venue for the accusation, and that the indictment itself is a violation of due process and Mackey’s First Amendment right to free speech. Federal officials arrested Mackey on January 27, 2021 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2022

Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday that they would not file criminal charges in the death of Amir Locke. The statement from the Hennepin County Attorney said that Lock’s death was “tragedy” and that he was “victim.”

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2024

More recently, Republican state attorneys general have filed numerous challenges to federal government actions on matters such as abortion , gun control , and immigration in single-judge divisions in Texas. Judge shopping has been a particularly long-standing problem in patent cases and corporate bankruptcy cases.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The DOJ also said that the law regulates areas that are preempted by federal government authority because of the impact this ban will have on interstate commerce. Attorney General Merrick Garland noted that “the statute includes an unprecedented scheme to, in the Chief Justice’s words, ‘insulate the State from responsibility.'”

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2021

Bitcoins “represent proceeds traceable to a computer intrusion and property involved in money laundering and may be seized pursuant to criminal and civil forfeiture statutes.” Though not the entirety of the ransom paid to Darkside, the DOJ maintains that the 63.7

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is the public policy of California to protect employees from being retaliated against by their employers for disclosing information that the employee has reason to believe involves a violation of a state or federal statute or law or for refusing to participate in an activity that would violate a state, federal, or local rule or regulation.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In accordance with statute, the VA awarded Mr. Taylor monthly compensation. The VA cites a statute that limits the effective date of claims–which determines the start date for back pay–to when the veteran filed for benefits. Mr. Taylor claims the government interfered with his statutory right to disability compensation.

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Intelligize Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Even better, the robed justices aren’t the only arm of the government looking to protect whistleblowers. The ruling led some experts to label Sarbanes-Oxley “…one of the most employee-friendly whistleblower-protection statutes in the nation.” Good news, whistleblowers: The Supreme Court just gave you a huge victory.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Former US President Donald Trump asked a Georgia court on Monday to dismiss the 13 criminal charges against him in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s 2020 presidential election interference case. Since then, four co-defendants have entered into plea deals with Willis, including three of Trump’s former attorneys.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As Meredith’s text message traveled between DC and Georgia, the federal government had the necessary interstate jurisdiction to prosecute him under this statute. It is defined by transmitting “in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”.

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