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Jan. 6 defendant asks Supreme Court to throw out obstruction charge

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Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on April 16 in the case of a former police officer from Pennsylvania who entered the Capitol during the Jan. That conclusion, Fischer continues, is also backed by basic principles used by courts to interpret statutes. 6, 2021, attacks. The government appealed to the U.S.

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In a dispute over uncashed MoneyGram checks, Delaware faces the ire of 30 other states

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Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , will be the second case argued on Monday, the opening day of the 2022-23 term. On one side is Delaware.

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

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Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. Goertz , involving the question of what statute of limitations state prisoners face when raising claims seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence.

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Justice Breyer: A formidable defender of reproductive rights

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Pennsylvania. In that case, Breyer led the majority in striking down a Nebraska criminal statute that made it unlawful to perform dilation-and-evacuation and similar abortion procedures even though the risks of mortality and morbidity to the pregnant person are significantly lower than induced-labor procedures. Carhart , Burwell v.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. In 1988, Silberman held that an independent-counsel statute was unconstitutional — and though the Supreme Court did not agree with him in Morrison v.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

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23] The draft rule required them only if they are determined to be “material,” which has led to a considerable amount of confusion. [24] 51] That doctrine only applies to federal regulations, however, not to state statutes, so it does not pose a danger to the two California bills. 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

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January 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The records included spreadsheets tracking and analyzing comments, draft ANPRM fact sheets, meeting agendas, and emails and meeting invitations regarding CEQ’s process for managing comments. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Southern Environmental Law Center v. Center for Environmental Quality , No.

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