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Rutgers students sue university over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

JURIST

A group of Rutgers students filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey university’s vaccine mandate on Monday. The university stated that the requirement would ensure a “safer Rutgers community” and a “safer New Jersey for our families our friends, and our neighbors across the state.”

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Georgia Death Penalty Law in Question Over Language Mistake

The Crime Report

Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear a case challenging a Georgia law requiring capital defendants seeking to be spared execution to prove they are intellectually disabled beyond a reasonable doubt, a standard that the law’s initial drafters say was written in error, reports the New York Times.

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As More Political Advertising Moves Online, State Laws Provide the Regulatory Framework for Disclosures and Recordkeeping

Broadcast Law Blog

In a recent state court decision, a King County judge in Washington State concluded that Facebook violated state political disclosure rules by not publicly providing information about the sale of political ads relating to state elections and ballot issues, as required by state law.

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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. Second, due to the recordkeeping practices of the entity issuing and holding on to the prepaid funds, abandoned money orders and the Disputed Instruments both escheat inequitably under the Court’s common-law rules. “It

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Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US

Conflict of Laws

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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Cities, counties, and states score major procedural win in climate liability suits against fossil fuel companies

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Over the last five years, cities, counties, and states across the country have sued fossil fuel companies alleging that the companies violated state law in marketing their products as safe. Supreme Court declined to hear a petition on whether the climate liability cases should be heard in state or federal court.

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Win More Clients by Using Document Automation Differently

LawSites

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. Download: The Complete Guide of Document Automation Software for Law Firms.