Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Facially, the service looked much like that offered by Aereo, which the Supreme Court determined seven years ago violated federal copyright law by retransmitting TV stations without first obtaining the consent of the copyright holders (see our article here on the Aereo Supreme Court decision).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation. On June 15, 2022, the Prague Municipal Court, a first instance administrative court, decided in favor of the plaintiffs in the first Czech strategic climate case ( Klimatická žaloba ?R 2022 Prague Municipal Court Decision. Eva Balounová *.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a 2021 state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower-court decision that declared the law unconstitutional for being vague. Stiglich authored the opinion of the court. That year, a US District Court also upheld the law, ruling that it did not violate the Second Amendment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 12, 2022

The first week of July 2022 brought on several major developments in climate litigation in the Netherlands, with possibly significant ramifications for a new type of global climate litigation. This “splash” of misleading advertisement cases (rather than a “wave”) seems to be a fairly new phenomenon in climate litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the 2nd Circuit’s decision in December granting the state an early-stage victory in the litigation ran afoul of the Second Amendment. Agreeing with the challengers, the lower courts put different parts of the law on hold.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 5, 2024

The Government also later provided McIntosh with a pretrial bill of particulars that included as property subject to forfeiture $75,000 in cash and a BMW that McIntosh purchased just five days after one of the robberies. After a jury convicted McIntosh, the District Court imposed a forfeiture of $75,000 and the BMW at the sentencing hearing.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

However, despite allowing the Minister’s appeal, the Court rejected the Minister’s argument that the primary judge made findings based on evidence of climate change that were unfounded. The decision has significant implications for future climate litigation claims in Australia. 2021 Federal Court Decision .

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Supreme Court of India Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Caste Census initiated in the Indian state of Bihar. By terming the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) a “Publicity Interest Litigation,” the Supreme Court lent its tacit approval to the caste census.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

In other words, FDA needed to determine whether the initial biosimilar litigation—pre-interchangeable supplemental approval—counts towards the FIE expiration date calculation. Notably, the purpose of the statute seemed to govern much of FDA’s interpretation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 07, 2021, the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF4) – one of Brazil’s federal courts of appeal – decided what should be the competent jurisdiction to hear the case of IEA v. The decision may have gone unnoticed. IEA appealed the transfer decision to the federal appellate court (TRF4).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 1, 2023

The Government claims that the easement includes public access, which petitioners dispute. In 2018, petitioners sued the Government under the Quiet Title Act, which allows challenges to the United States’ rights in real property. Petitioners countered that §2409a(g)’s time limit is a non-jurisdictional claims-processing rule.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

But it also includes questions including whether to do away with the dual network rule prohibiting the common ownership of two of the top 4 TV networks, and whether to adopt specific criteria to govern when ownership combinations of two of the Top 4 TV stations in any market will be allowed (the review is a case-by-case review now).

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 1, 2024

Alex Mills, Sustainability and jurisdiction in the international civil litigation market The sustainability of the global economy, particularly in response to the concerns of climate change, is an issue which impacts many different aspects of life and work around the world.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Electrification is a critical component of building decarbonization, and local governments are taking a leading role in this policy space. While a handful of local prohibitions fall within the Ninth Circuit decision’s scope, many more do not. Options that remain available to local governments are addressed in the next section.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , the court held that the NCAA could, in the interest of preserving the character and quality of college sports, impose restrictions upon players that would otherwise breach antitrust laws. ” The court also granted certiorari in TransUnion LLC v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Oklahoma last term, the court confronted the complex past of Oklahoma’s Native nations, Chehalis turns on the unique legal history of Alaskan Natives. Though Alaska became part of the United States in 1867, the federal government only fitfully devoted attention to the status of the new territory’s Indigenous peoples.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

government deported him to Mexico. The government reinstated his prior removal order. While the Supreme Court has never set a bright-line test on when a detainee is entitled to a bond hearing, the U.S. The Supreme Court will now review those decisions. After one such entry, the U.S. Rodriguez and Johnson v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 31, 2024

The last of these cases was the first climate case in the form of administrative litigation. The Japanese government recognized the urgent need to secure power supply and implemented some measures to expedite the construction of new power plant. Kobe Steel Ltd., and Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, Indonesians at the frontline of climate change filed a claim before the National Human Rights Commission seeking recognition that climate change is a matter of human rights and calling on the Indonesian government to take stronger action. Indonesia , as well as recent developments of the case. The human rights complaint.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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At the Lectern

OCTOBER 27, 2021

.” Asserting that “[a] court system capable of living up to its promise is foundational to the world’s perception of the legitimacy of the American system,” Cuéllar says in his column: Debating the merits of our court decisions is as American as chicken-fried steak and jalapeños washed down with boba tea.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Raiders Retreat Realty surprised anybody familiar with last fall’s oral argument.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Those who attended their annual Enforcement, Litigation, and Compliance Conference holiday reception earlier this month got a sneak peek at this new branding effort with the unveiling of the association’s new logo ( here ). FDLI looks forward to this continued partnership for many more years to come.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. 24, 2016).

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a few slow weeks on the relist front, the Supreme Court came roaring back this week with four newly relisted petitions that, if granted, will likely be added to the March 2023 argument calendar. The government again seeks review of the 9th Circuit’s holding. Two years ago, in United States v. Next up is Polselli v.

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

The filing of “protective” claims for refund as a hedge against the draconian provisions that govern the federal taxation of cannabis, and particularly for marijuana, is one of those things properly placed at the top of the no-brainer list.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Some background about the general compromise that governs that problem sets the stage for this dispute. In 1968, Congress transferred the federal government’s trust responsibility for the Pueblo to the state of Texas, following a similar action it had taken in 1954 for a much larger reservation held by the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

Nearly all of the state and local government plaintiffs filed their cases in state court. Fossil fuel company defendants responded by removing the cases to federal court. The fossil fuel company defendants vigorously fought to keep the cases in federal court because they viewed them as easier to dismiss in federal court.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. The trial court denied Tekoh’s motion and admitted his statement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

The case involves the costs of appellate litigation. Under the “American Rule,” the prevailing party in litigation in the United States ordinarily must pay its own attorney’s fees, absent some statute that calls for a different outcome. Conversely, the prevailing party typically is reimbursed for many of the other costs of litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

The study examines European court decisions, domestic legislation, and international projects aimed at stabilizing the legal status of such children. It suggests that Japan might consider recognizing parentage through foreign decisions.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2021

The federal government does its own version of rebranding with each change in administration. The memorandum cites the 2019 Supreme Court decision, Kisor v. Walsh & JP Ellison — Companies often use rebranding to reposition and refocus their business. Wilkie , 139 S.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Although no petitions have been granted, the Supreme Court has requested amicus briefs from the Federal Government in four particular cases. Because of that heavy threshold, a CVSG is typically seen as an important signal that the court is likely to grant certiorari. ” Eligibility : American Axle v. VLSI Technology LLC.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. Three trials the district court selected as non-binding “bellwether” trials resulted in plaintiff verdicts. Below we briefly discuss those 14 cases. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2024

.’ [para 60] The US Supreme Court further established the importance of reciprocity and asserted that the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 2018 was the primary Act governing foreign judgments.

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