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A prisoner’s bid to develop new evidence rests on a 233-year-old statute about judicial writs

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Share Federal courts employ the All Writs Act to serve countless ends, from assisting FBI investigations to prohibiting vexatious litigation to requiring Apple to access data. This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e.,

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Ohio Attorney General Files Securities Class Action Against Against Facebook

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The lawsuit alleges that Facebook--now known as Meta--violates securities statutes by allegedly misleading investors about the negative mental health effects of its product.

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Sua Sponte State Law Certification in Opioid MDL Appeal

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In its decision, the Court took the uncommon step of sua sponte certifying a question of state law (here, Ohio law) to a state supreme supreme court (the Ohio Supreme Court). It is an appeal from one of the many cases pending before Judge Polster in the Northern District of Ohio as part of the National Prescription Opiate Litigation.

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Justices consider whether to alter the National Guard collective-bargaining landscape

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Share From the beginning of Monday’s oral argument in Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority , it was crystal clear that Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers would focus like a laser beam on the claim that the FLRA has no statutory authority to issue orders against state agencies. Kagan asked.

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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule

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One of the most closely watched is Ohio v. Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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Divided court rejects death-row prisoner’s attempt to gather neurological evidence

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In this case, a federal district court relied on the All Writs Act to order Ohio prison warden Tim Shoop to transport state death-row prisoner Raymond Twyford to a medical facility for neuroimaging. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissent that was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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Leaving “rare birds” alone

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Share The Supreme Court has held that the Ohio National Guard’s dual-status technician employees have federal labor rights. The question before the court was whether the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute applies to dual-status technicians working for the Guard. The Federal Labor Relations Authority and the U.S.

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