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

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Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas. Animal Legal Defense Fund. Animal Legal Defense Fund , 21-760.

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A capital case that tests the right to represent oneself at trial

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The Ohio Supreme Court held that neither the waiver of counsel nor the question about self-representation constituted a proper invocation of the Sixth Amendment right of self-representation, noting that the Supreme Court has said that a defendant must “clearly and unequivocally declare[]” his intention to proceed pro se under Faretta v.

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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. The Ohio Supreme Court held that the Cincinnati tax was constitutionally impermissible under the First Amendment. City of Cincinnati, Ohio v.

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