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“Pa. Justices Remand ‘Mallory’ to Trial Court, Registration Statute Uncertainty Expected to Linger; The Tuesday ruling shut down the defendants’ bid for a fast-tracked examination of whether or not the consent by registration statute violates the U.S. Constitution’s dormant Commerce Clause — a question that draws a concurring opinion from Justice Samuel Alito Jr. suggesting the statute may overly restrict interstate commerce”

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Justices Remand ‘Mallory’ to Trial Court, Registration Statute Uncertainty Expected to Linger; The Tuesday ruling shut down the defendants’ bid for a fast-tracked examination of whether or not the consent by registration statute violates the U.S. The post “Pa.

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White Nationalist Group Escalates Activity, Prompts Calls for Stronger Legal Penalties

The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Both activists and legal community members are calling for prosecutors to mount a more substantive case against them, reports Odette Yousef for NPR.

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School.

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

SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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

SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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No new relists — but a preview of a free-exercise issue the court is watching closely

SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

That brings us to what I think is a likely future grant — and here, I’m speaking of the legal issue rather this particular case (although even this particular case is worth watching closely). Pennsylvania , 20-7805. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. Gordon College v. That’s all for this week.

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March Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: EAS and Next Gen TV Rulemaking Comments, Incentive Auction Reimbursements, TV Auction, GMR Licensing Deadline, and More

Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Under the FCC’s proposals that are designed to clear up which entity is responsible for legal and regulatory compliance, such multicast streams will be part of the originating station’s license, not that of the “host” station. By that date, radio stations in Delaware and Pennsylvania must file a license renewal application.

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Pennsylvania election official to resign after failing to put constitutional amendment for sex abuse victims on ballot

JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced on Monday that Secretary of State Kathy Bookvar will resign from her position at the end of the week due to her department’s failure to advertise a proposed constitutional amendment that sought to extend the statute of limitations for victims of clergy sexual abuse.

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Are Issue Ads By Non-Candidate Groups Entitled to Lowest Unit Rates Just Because a Candidate Approves the Ad? The FCC Is Asked for Its Opinion

Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

We first saw this in the 2018 election with ads in Oregon, and later in Pennsylvania. Section 315(b)(1) of the Communications Act says that LUR is provided to ads from “any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office in connection with his campaign for nomination for election, or election, to such office.”

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Extraterritoriality and International Law Conference and Webinar, September 15-17, 2021

Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

Extraterritoriality in the Global Governance of Corruption: Legal and Political Perspectives. Chair in Legal Ethics and Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Extraterritoriality in Statutes and Regulations. Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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Jurisdictional dispute appears to scramble the court’s usual ideological lines

SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered there and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else. The legal doctrine at the center of the case, Mallory v.

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Justices contemplate the interplay of eminent domain and sovereign immunity

SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

The dispute arose when PennEast obtained under the Natural Gas Act a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct a 116-mile pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania to western New Jersey.

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Report from the 2022 Hague Academy Summer Course in PIL

Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By analysing the sole definition of private international law, coordination mechanisms, the concept of legal relativity, connecting rules and factors, transnational cooperation and vertical disciplines in the regional context, prof. It presented three juridical sources in hierarchy: statute, equity and common law.

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Illinois Attorney General report names over 450 child sex abusers in the Catholic Church

JURIST

MAY 23, 2023

The report follows a five-year investigation, which occurred following the large-scale revelations of child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania in 2018. As many of the allegations are too old to pursue legal actions, the report gives a platform for survivors to tell their stories, including narrative accounts.

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

SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

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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Possible Change in Arizona Homestead Law & Refinancing

Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Critics say that and other provisions could harm homeowners struggling to make ends meet, and the legislation might force debtors to seek additional legal help on old bankruptcy cases they thought were closed. This blanket protection of a person’s home investment would rise to $250,000 if the bill passes.

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

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AUGUST 8, 2023

5] For the reasons discussed below, more firms – and their legal and other advisers– should follow them. 9] The proposed legislation in California is both legally solid and helpful for making climate progress. Academic readers of this blog should too!

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Florida man subject to lifetime sex-offender registration requirements argues that he is “in custody” for purposes of federal post-conviction laws

SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A person held in state prison can challenge the constitutionality of their criminal conviction in federal court through a legal tool known as a writ of habeas corpus. He argues that there is a divide among the courts of appeals over whether similar sex-offender regimes place registrants “in custody” for purposes of the habeas statute.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Second Circuit agreed with the district court that the plaintiff lacked standing because he failed to allege an injury in fact since he “never explained why he had any legal right to have the document distributed.” EPA’s brief is due December 15. National Environmental Development Association’s Clean Air Project v. Williams , No.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

She insists in the video that she knows all of the governing legal rules and shows the path in detail. The Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania tells customers that, if they come to their Halloween Haunt, “ Fear is waiting for you.” See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. The Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania tells customers that, if they come to their Halloween Haunt, “ Fear is waiting for you.” See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood.

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Number of US Executions Continues to Decline: BJS

The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Supreme Court invalidated capital punishment statutes in several states in Furman v. The largest declines in the number of prisoners under sentence of death in 2020 occurred in California (down 24 prisoners) and Pennsylvania (down 14). But California still held over 28 percent of death row inmates at the end of 2020.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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

SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. Cissy had assisted with the case by transcribing the legal briefs. Piel, who unlike many lawyers eschewed specialization, took on a wide range of unpopular clients over the course of an extraordinary legal career that spanned seven decades.

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January 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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JANUARY 13, 2021

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Friends of the Headwaters v.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. Accordingly, Miller was in violation of a statute in addition to being negligent. __.

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Justice Breyer: A formidable defender of reproductive rights

SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

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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Prohibiting trademarks using other people’s names — and hypothetical jurisdiction

SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

The government argues that the court usually grants review when a court of appeals has invalidated the application of a federal statute, and that the court granted review in both Iancu v. That court dismissed the claim on the merits because it was filed after the two-year statute of limitations had expired. On appeal, the U.S.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

” She even posted a walk-through video and insisted that she knows all of the governing legal rules. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood. __ The Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania tells customers that, if they come to their Halloween Haunt, “ Fear is waiting for you.”

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US Supreme Court removes immigration cases from calendar, takes up gas pipeline case

JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In an effort to build a natural-gas pipeline through Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the PennEast Pipeline Company filed condemnation suits against the state of New Jersey to force it to convey state-owned land for the project. The new case, , comes on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The case will be argued in April.

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“[You] are not Included on the List”: Florida Warns the Justice Department on Positioning Federal Monitors Inside Florida Polling Places

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I will be doing the coverage tonight on the election for Fox News and election day has already gotten off to a lively start in terms of legal conflicts. We previously discussed Fetterman’s recent effort to enlist the firm of controversial Clinton lawyer Marc Elias to get a federal court to strike down a Pennsylvania election provision.

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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

One “friend of the court” brief filed in support of Pulsifer tells the justices that the lower court’s ruling “turns the statute on its head by foreclosing safety-valve relief for the vast majority of defendants to whom the statutory amendment might apply.” In Acheson Hotels v. Raiders Retreat filed five counterclaims.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. The court ordered the Board of Regents to produce all requested records within 90 days. Arizona Board of Regents , No.

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Court allows Pennsylvania officials to count ballots that arrived in undated envelopes

SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Pennsylvania county to count mail-in ballots that do not comply with a state law requiring voters to write the date on the ballot’s envelope. The voters also questioned whether Ritter even had a legal right to challenge the decision to count the votes.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. Against stare decisis.

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Relist Watch

SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party , 20-574. Issues : (1) Whether a writ of mandamus is appropriate because, contrary to the holding of the U.S. relisted after the Jan. 15 conferences). Boockvar , 20-542. relisted after the Jan. 15 conferences). Scarnati v. relisted after the Jan. 15 conferences).

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Paralegal Brief

White Nationalist Group Escalates Activity, Prompts Calls for Stronger Legal Penalties

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

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

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

No new relists — but a preview of a free-exercise issue the court is watching closely

March Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: EAS and Next Gen TV Rulemaking Comments, Incentive Auction Reimbursements, TV Auction, GMR Licensing Deadline, and More

Pennsylvania election official to resign after failing to put constitutional amendment for sex abuse victims on ballot

Are Issue Ads By Non-Candidate Groups Entitled to Lowest Unit Rates Just Because a Candidate Approves the Ad? The FCC Is Asked for Its Opinion

Extraterritoriality and International Law Conference and Webinar, September 15-17, 2021

Jurisdictional dispute appears to scramble the court’s usual ideological lines

Justices contemplate the interplay of eminent domain and sovereign immunity

Report from the 2022 Hague Academy Summer Course in PIL

Illinois Attorney General report names over 450 child sex abusers in the Catholic Church

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

Possible Change in Arizona Homestead Law & Refinancing

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

Florida man subject to lifetime sex-offender registration requirements argues that he is “in custody” for purposes of federal post-conviction laws

December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

Number of US Executions Continues to Decline: BJS

The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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

January 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

TURKEY TORTS (2020)

Justice Breyer: A formidable defender of reproductive rights

Prohibiting trademarks using other people’s names — and hypothetical jurisdiction

Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

US Supreme Court removes immigration cases from calendar, takes up gas pipeline case

“[You] are not Included on the List”: Florida Warns the Justice Department on Positioning Federal Monitors Inside Florida Polling Places

Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Court allows Pennsylvania officials to count ballots that arrived in undated envelopes

We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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