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Kentucky Attorney Files Challenge To Kentucky Governor’s Closure OF Religious Schools

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting fight brewing in Kentucky between Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Gov. Beshear has correctly cited a major victory recently before the Kentucky Supreme Court — an unanimous decision in favor of his authority to issue pandemic orders. Andy Beshear. In Beshear v.

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Federal judge rules Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses violated constitutional rights

JURIST

Judge David Bunning of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled Friday that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015. Judge Bunning disagreed with Davis’s argument, writing: It is.

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Seeking Transparency in Waco

Patently O

Chao was a patent attorney and patent litigator for 20 years before becoming a professor and I have long valued his insight. Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. Moreover, individual court rules are now requiring greater transparency.

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Timber industry, federal government battle over preservation of southern Oregon forest

SCOTUSBlog

Accordingly, both courts of appeals held that the two laws work in tandem, even if in tension, to guide the executive branch’s authority over the Oregon forest. Biden , the challengers ask the justices to grant review and reverse the lower courtsrulings. In American Forest Resource Council v. United States and Murphy Co.

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Justice Sotomayor References Rarely Used Procedure: Circuit Certification to U.S. Supreme Court

SquirePattonBoggs

. § 1254(2), the lesser-known companion to the provision that gives the Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction (§1254(1)). Certification to a State Supreme Court, this Blog has noted , is a procedure the Sixth Circuit knows well. See In re Nat’l Prescription Opiate Litig. , Kentucky , 35 F.4th 4th 455 (6th Cir. 1254(2).

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” Kentucky v. particularly those with ravenous monkeys. 3d 599 (6th Cir.2003)

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Corpus Linguistics in the Sixth Circuit and Beyond

SquirePattonBoggs

The district court ruled otherwise, holding that the defendant “had purposefully targeted stores” across multiple states “to impede communication between law enforcement, triggering the relocation enhancement.”. 20-56174, 2022 U.S. LEXIS 12657, at *16 n.6 6 (9th Cir. May 11, 2022). Safelite Grp., 3d 429, 440 (6th Cir.

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