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Delaware Loses Bid to Keep Uncashed MoneyGram Checks

Constitutional Law Reporter

MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. New Jersey , 379 U.S. The Supreme Court went on to find that Delaware’s various arguments as to why the Disputed Instruments should not qualify as “other similar written instrument[s]” within the meaning of §2503 were unpersuasive.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The intermediate appellate court held that the defendant was not entitled to present the defense because he had “reasonable legal alternatives” to trespass and obstruction even if those alternatives were not effective. BP p.l.c. , Two amicus briefs were filed in support of the companies, one by the U.S.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

Three Republican senators – Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, and Ted Cruz of Texas – write that a precedent can be unworkable due to “a history of confusion in the lower courts, an unstable pattern of Supreme Court decisions, and a persistent lack of judicially manageable standards.”

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What to Expect in a Post-Roe World

JonathanTurley

States like Colorado, New Jersey, Oregon and Delaware actually protected abortion without any limit on the stage of a pregnancy — guaranteeing the right up to just before time of birth. Our post-Roe world will not be written by Congress with the proposed federalization of Roe or another 50 years of conflicting court decisions.

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