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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. 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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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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The decision was noteworthy not only because it struck down the New York law, which mirrored similar restrictions in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, but for its methodology. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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