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US Supreme Court will consider liability shields for online platforms, seven additional new cases

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Garland the court is again asked to examine administrative procedure, this time in the context of an immigration proceeding. Leon Santos-Zacaria is an immigrant who was removed from the US but later reentered the country. That holding was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals, an administrative body.

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Three Supreme Court cases lead to California Lawyer of the Year honors

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the court made things easier for undocumented children to obtain from California courts the findings federal law requires to apply for immigration relief that creates a pathway to permanent resident status. 5th 93 — “ Missed break premiums count as wages, State Supreme Court rules.” 2022) 13 Cal.5th

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Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza and Hearst

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For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. There is now an important ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that could have enormous implications not just for the media but anyone who retweets stories or claims.

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Major OxyContin case headlines December session

SCOTUSBlog

The justices will then hear the first immigration case of the term. Under federal immigration law, the federal government can cancel the deportation of a non-permanent resident – that is, a non-U.S. Under federal immigration law, the federal government can cancel the deportation of a non-permanent resident – that is, a non-U.S.

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Vaccine requirements, cancer claims, and circuit splits

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Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

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Justices won’t intervene in dispute over transgender rights and bathrooms

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up a dispute over whether transgender students must be allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identities. Two new grants on immigration, free speech. An immigration judge ordered their deportation, and the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld that ruling.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The proposed intervenors had argued that “[t]he public deserves to see documentation of the effort by a tort lawyer to help his tort campaign against by enlisting the New York Office of Attorney General, successfully, if in pursuit of terribly unsuccessful prosecution at a cost, clearly, of millions of taxpayer dollars.”