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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule

Constitutional Law Reporter

One of the most closely watched is Ohio v. Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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Court to hear battle over animal welfare, the dormant commerce clause — and the price of bacon

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And in doing so, the challengers write, the law “inescapably projects California’s policy choices into every other State” – even when other states, like Ohio, specifically allow pork formers “to do what Proposition 12 forbids.”.

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Policing Pronouns: How “Misgendering” is Becoming the New Battleground Over Discrimination

JonathanTurley

This already is being litigated in some lower courts. In Ohio, Shawnee State University Professor Nicholas Meriwether, won a major appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which reversed a lower court that initially upheld his punishment for using a student’s designated pronoun choices.

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No Joke: Supreme Court Case Could Take a Big Bite Out of the First Amendment

JonathanTurley

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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At a vestige of the Manhattan Project, a fight over workers’ compensation and intergovernmental immunity

SCOTUSBlog

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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The Biden Administration Goes To War With The “Non-Vacs”: Is Coercion the Answer?

JonathanTurley

There is a high likelihood of a new round of litigation as pressure builds for new mandates and even lockdowns. In Ohio, $1 million lottery prizes were offered to those willing to take the shots; other states offered free metro or free museum passes. Government officials then shifted from reasoned to induced or compensated consent.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Waters’ most recent words could well be cited in the ongoing litigation over the January 6 th riot on Capitol Hill. Ohio , where the Supreme Court stressed that even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. It is one of a number of lawsuits, including a lawsuit filed by Rep.