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US judge declares California assault weapon ban unconstitutional

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The California law makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, import, keep for sale or lend assault weapons. There have been other litigation this year after the Bruen ruling challenging state gun laws. The case is in the US District Court for the Southern District of California.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. 1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals (as the U.S. Goertz , 21-442.

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Ghost guns, six-person juries, and discretionary visa decisions

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VanDerStok , involving the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate firearm parts kits (colloquially known as “ghost guns”) under the Gun Control Act of 1968, which imposes licensing, background-check, recordkeeping, and serialization requirements on persons engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in “firearms.”

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. The court also declined to “create a new tort named abusive litigation.”

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S.

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Biden Announces Crackdown on Ghost Guns

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Reuters reports that Biden will also announce a ban on the manufacturing of ghost guns — a sweeping reform move that many have pushed for as a way to address the surge in violence. His announcements are “likely to draw opposition and litigation from gun advocates in the coming weeks,” Reuters notes. .

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

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Kruger left WilmerHale for the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a class in transnational litigation as a visiting assistant professor. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for gun manufacturers, argued that the requirement should be invalidated because it was impossible to implement the technology.

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