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Utah Sued Over Social Media Age Verification Law

Law 360

A group of Utah residents backed by a free speech advocacy group is suing officials in Utah over the state's new social media age verification law, saying the statute violates Utahns' First Amendment rights in a one-size-fits-allapproach.

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Ohio Supreme Court rules judges not required to defer to state agency interpretations of ambiguous laws

JURIST

The Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas reversed the Board’s decision without affording any deference to the agency’s interpretation of the relevant statute. Later, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals held that a court must defer to an administrative interpretation only if the court finds a statute to be ambiguous.

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California’s Chief Justice Faults Legislature and Lawyer Lobbying for Blocking Movement on Regulatory Reforms

LawSites

During a question-and-answer session following her speech, I asked her about the stalled efforts to bring about reform in California and what the Supreme Court could do to move the issue forward, particularly in light of the leading roles taken by the supreme courts of Arizona and Utah to bring about reforms in those states.

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Utah Court Enjoins Aereo Service – A Preview of the Supreme Court Decision? Could It Find Aereo to Violate Copyright Law Without Overturning the Cablevision Decision?

Broadcast Law Blog

The US District Court in Utah released a well-reasoned decision finding that the service, by transmitting via the Internet over-the-air TV programming to subscribers without any consent from the TV stations or their program suppliers, violated the copyrights that the stations have in their programming. Aereo finally lost a court decision.

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The Tenth Circuit considered referring a case to the Supreme Court

At the Lectern

4th __, the majority, using California choice-of-law principles, applied a Utah statute of limitations instead of a California statute to hold a childhood sexual abuse lawsuit was time barred. Logan River Academy (10th Cir., 14, 2021, No. 20-4074) __ F.4th ’ ”.

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As drought persists in the west, justices to consider Navajo Nation’s rights to Colorado River

SCOTUSBlog

Meanwhile, the water level at Lake Powell, the massive reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Utah-Arizona border, is at historic lows, threatening its ability to generate power. They argue that the jurisdictional threshold under the APA is less demanding than statutes allowing for money damages. The 1964 Arizona v.

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Limits on SEC enforcement and the power of state AGs to avoid arbitration

SCOTUSBlog

Next, NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia concerns the power of a state attorney general to bring lawsuits on behalf of private parties who would otherwise be subject to an arbitration agreement.

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