Above The Law

MARCH 30, 2022

* Two lit at the night show: It is unclear who will lead the charge in the coming Astroworld litigation. Maryland passes an anti-Texas measure that makes it easier to access abortions. [ Maryland passes an anti-Texas measure that makes it easier to access abortions. [ appeared first on Above the Law. Billboard ]. *

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Share Lee Kovarsky is the Bryant Smith chair in law and co-director of Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Most people following the litigation over S.B. But this ode to rule-of-law values sounds some pretty false notes. And procedural uncertainties admittedly lurked.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2015, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other human rights organizations challenging surveillance by the NSA. NSA’s use of the program was illegally leaked in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

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Patently O

JULY 23, 2022

New Job Postings on Patently-O: Neustel Law Offices, LTD. University of Maryland. Klarquist Sparkman, LLP – Litigation/IPR Associate. Shook Hardy & Bacon – IP Litigation Attorney. Frye: Review of Anjali Vats, The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans (Source: SSRN).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v. Kivett , and the New York state law in Cantero v. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the California law requiring escrow interest was not preempted by the National Bank Act. Nelson ,…517 U.S. Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Legal Research is Easy

AUGUST 5, 2019

Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. The kicker is that unlike parents (who, hopefully, are on the same page and the kid realizes that it's unlikely dad will overrule mom), it is critical that courts make the same rulings over and over so that people know how law will be applied.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). However, many areas of Europe have good Samaritan laws protecting such rescuers. Maryland v. Indeed, he is liable for injured rescuers.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The practice of law is highly dependent on trust. Yet there’s one critical aspect of trust that legal professionals rarely talk about: the trust that we have in one another as colleagues within a law firm setting. So, if trust is so important, how can law firms begin to foster the type of trust necessary for success?

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court acknowledged concerns by the hotel, which lost in the lower court and had asked the justices to weigh in, “about litigants manipulating the jurisdiction of this Court.” This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Deborah Laufer, who has physical disabilities and vision impairments, told the justices that she has voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court after an attorney who represented her in other cases was disciplined by a federal court in Maryland.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to civil claims that arguably define trafficking beyond its logical limits, similar lawsuits are increasingly being filed against third-party businesses and individuals who unwittingly encounter bad actors on their platform or premises, regardless of whether they alert law enforcement as soon as this clandestine crime is identified.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2022

Elias has previously been sanctioned for his conduct in litigation and recently lost an effort to gerrymander the Maryland voting districts. ” The FEC said the law firm, Perkins Coie, paid Fusion $1,024,407.97 Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. for the dossier in 2016.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There is an interesting case this week involving an adjunct professor at George Washington Law School, where I teach. In the course of the litigation, Abdelhady asked the court to ignore her election (and receipt) of workers’ compensation benefits and find that the WCA does not apply after all. Id. ¶ 174. I d. ¶ 154. Id. ¶¶ 175-76.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At her trial, prosecutors called a law-enforcement agent as an expert witness to testify that in most cases, couriers know they are transporting large quantities of drugs across the border and that traffickers rarely risk the potential of large losses on “blind mules” – couriers who are unaware what they’re carrying. .” 27 and Nov.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). However, many areas of Europe have good Samaritan laws protecting such rescuers. Maryland v. Indeed, he is liable for injured rescuers.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The court also declined without comment to take up two other petitions , seeking review of a ruling by a federal appeals court that invalidated on First Amendment grounds a North Carolina law that allows employers to sue employees who make undercover video or audio recordings. relisted after the Sept. 13 conferences) Tingley v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Avista Corp.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). However, many areas of Europe have good Samaritan laws protecting such rescuers. Maryland v. Indeed, he is liable for injured rescuers.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A ”friend of the court” brief filed by fair housing groups and testers echoes Laufer’s argument, telling the justices that testers “are not inviting or anticipating discrimination” but instead try “and expect to confirm compliance with fair housing laws—the most common outcome of their tests.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2022

Elias has previously been sanctioned for his conduct in litigation and recently lost an effort to gerrymander the Maryland voting districts. Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. Elias has unsuccessfully led efforts to challenge Democratic losses. Elias was back in the news on another defeat in court recently.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

The city filed its case in a Maryland state court. That is precisely what Chevron did in this case: It transferred the suit to a federal court in Maryland – a procedure known as “removal.” The court rejected the city’s contention that allowing appeals of remand orders will delay litigation of the merits of a case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Johnson also argued that he was ineligible for the death penalty on the basis of intellectual disability and that he should have been allowed to seek a sentencing reduction under a 2018 prison-reform law. Litigation over Higgs’ execution is ongoing. on Thursday. Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 11:34 p.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion dissenting from the denial of certiorari , arguing that it “seems illogical and unfair” to relax the common-law requirement that collateral estoppel bind litigants in later litigation only when both parties are the same. Remarkably, six petitions still remain from the long conference.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. United States , a case involving federal sentencing laws that – at least according to the defendant – turns on whether the word “and” in the federal law at issue means “and” or instead “or.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Separately, federal law also permits tribes to negotiate their contracts with the IHS to allow the tribe to bill its members’ insurance (whether private insurance, federal Medicare or Medicaid, workers’ compensation, or some other kind) for the services provided. And in 2023, a divided panel of the U.S. United States , Thomas v. 3 and Nov.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. The Supremacy Clause serves to “ invalidate[] state law that interferes with or is contrary to federal law.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

The justices also turned down (at least for now) efforts by a group of states, led by Texas, to revive litigation over the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to defend the rule. That order is also covered in a separate article.). Free speech and public censure. Alaska appealed that decision to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Maryland ; and (2) whether suppressed impeachment evidence of the state’s key witness is per se non-material under Brady because that witness’ credibility had been otherwise impeached at trial. Maryland and Napue v. .” (relisted after the Sept. 13 and Oct 27 conferences) Tingley v. relisted after the Sept.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Merlin’s chief data scientist, William Webber , is a highly regarded data scientist who earned his doctoral degree in information retrieval and who did his postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland in development of search technology for discovery of evidence in civil litigation.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle. Maryland, 4 Wheat.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Maryland , is one of the more common post-conviction misconduct allegations. My recent research suggests that prosecutors and defense attorneys who are not professional exonerators are more likely to engage in post-conviction bargaining such as agreeing to forego litigation around negligence or misconduct. Pursuing Brady Violations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The FCC has already issued such an extension three times since the initial compliance deadline of May 26, 2015, as the NAB contends that there still is no workable technology that can perform the functions required by the rule (see our Broadcast Law Blog article here from the last extension 5 years ago).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That refusal turned Phillips’ tiny bakery into ground zero for the long-standing battle between religious rights and anti-discrimination laws. He had to be sent back to languish in litigation until the Court could eek out a majority this year. ” The recognition of Phillips’ rights were simply untimely for the Court.

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