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US judge declines to pause challenge to Alabama law criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors

JURIST

Burke dismissed the government’s motion without prejudice, noting that a stay may be appropriate if the Eleventh Circuit or Supreme Court take up these cases. This case had already made its way up to the Eleventh Circuit when the court ruled that the ban could go into effect.

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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. In Wisconsin, minors cannot possess short-barreled rifles under Section 941.28.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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