Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

After he left the company, Mallory moved to Pennsylvania for a period before returning to Virginia. Mallory filed his lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court. In fact, Norfolk Southern has registered to do business in Pennsylvania in light of its “regular, systematic, [and] extensive” operations there. Washington , 326 U.S.

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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. In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Keeping elderly offenders in prison until their deaths is expensive, too: the report found that Pennsylvania pays at least $122 million per year in care for people over 50 serving life without parole in the state’s prisons. At 9,802, the state imprisons more than twice the people serving LWP than the second-highest population in Pennsylvania.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that uncashed MoneyGram checks are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act (FDA) and should be returned to the state where they were issued. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Returning Relists.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. That case involves whether companies consent to a state’s courts having general personal jurisdiction over them by registering to do business there.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal.

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