SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

Louisiana , 22-77 Issue : Whether, where a defendant denies participating in a particular criminal act, another person’s confession stating that he and someone else committed the act—without mentioning the defendant—is favorable and material evidence under Brady v. rescheduled before the Jan. 13 conference; relisted after the Jan. 17 and Feb.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2023

Unlike LawDroid’s other product, Builder , a no-code development platform law firms can use to build chat bots, Copilot is an attorney-facing tool that can assist lawyers in performing a variety of tasks. A lawyer would use this to create a summary of legal language, such as in a contract, perhaps to send to a client.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2022

After she lost the arbitration, Badgerow sued in Louisiana, asking a state court to vacate the arbitration award; Walters removed the suit to federal court and asked that court to confirm the award. The issue for the justices was whether the federal court had jurisdiction to decide whether the award should be confirmed or vacated.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The invite-only program, capped at 250 participants, was billed as the “highly-curated event for innovators who are transforming the world of law.” Attendees included early-stage startups, veteran CEOs, major investors, law firm chairs, corporate general counsel, and others. While most were from the U.S., Key Takeaways.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2022

Under a claim of wrongful termination pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act , Walters initiated an arbitration proceeding as required by her employment contract. The arbitration resulted in a ruling for the defendant, which Walters then challenged in Louisiana state court. In 2008, the court held in Vaden v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. The post Supreme Court Considers Scope of Federal Bribery Law appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases. One of the most closely watched is Percoco v. United States v.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Yet the OneOhio Recovery Foundation has since said it is not subject to open-meetings law. The board’s operational expenses — including a $10,000-per-month contract with a public relations firm — is being paid from $1 million from a previous opioid-related settlement. We are still at the very beginning,” Whittington emphasized.

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ALPS

APRIL 28, 2021

It is an issue with which many states are now grappling, so it would behoove lawyers to check the law in their own states if they are considering including such a clause. 2015) (arbitration provisions in attorney-client employment agreements enforceable like any other contract); Watts v. States Enforcing Arbitration Provisions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

According to Reuters , Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers contracted COVID-19 after Christmas, while Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill argued remotely “in accordance with COVID protocols,” which require arguing attorneys who test positive for COVID to argue by telephone. It’s “hard to argue,” he told U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Wade just a few years out of law school. While attending Rutgers Law School in the 1960s, Frank Askin was a student of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Fellow law enforcement officers lined 1 First Street to pay their respects. He was a cheerful, friendly, kind, and generous man,” he told Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The earlier cases in which the court took that unusual step involved Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law and a religious-liberty claim from a man on death row.). A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states. The OSHA mandate.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Three terms ago in Seila Law v. LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case. The district court concluded that, consistent with the contractual choice-of-law provision, New York law governed and barred Raiders’ Pennsylvania-law-based counterclaims.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. Belknap was charged with accepting bribes for contracts associated with the Indian territory. William Blount (1798-99).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2022

” Here is the column: “Major-question-land,” the term used by Louisiana solicitor general Elizabeth Murrill during Friday’s oral arguments over the Biden vaccine mandates, has an almost Disneyesque sound to it. That would impact policies across the legal landscape — from environmental laws to work-safety regulations to banking rules.

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