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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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I suspect one of the justices wrote a draft separate opinion that was sufficiently persuasive to shake loose the necessary votes for a grant. Baltimore, Maryland, and Cincinnati, Ohio, like many cities, have municipal excise taxes on “outdoor advertising” — essentially, a business tax on rental billboard advertising space.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Although the law conflicted directly with Roe v. Casey , the court’s long-standing decisions holding that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the court nonetheless allowed the law to go into effect on Sept.

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