The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Leaving intact the nation’s “most aggressively broad” statute criminalizing certain speech and conduct directed toward school employees, the Masters case involved Johnathan Masters, an education graduate student who distributed surveys to secondary school students as part of his research. Examining Masters v.

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Statute Education Misdemeanor Court 128

JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Failure to comply with the law is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison and $1,000 in fines. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a complaint arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague. A three-judge panel of the appellate court reversed the lower court decision in a 2-1 split.

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Statute Laws Court Misdemeanor 288

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. May 10, 2021).

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Court Statute Government Litigation 42