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22 US states sue New York climate law for fining fossil fuel companies

JURIST

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, and 21 other states, sued New York Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute seventy-five billion dollars to a fund to pay for damages caused by climate change. The leading plaintiff, West Virginia, is one of the leading producers of gas in the United States.

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Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Reverses Murder Conviction Based on the State Introducing a "Veritable Flood of Evidence Concerning the Character of the Victim"

EvidenceProf Blog

Similar to its federal counterpart, West Virginia Rule of Evidence 404(a) states the following: (a) Character Evidence. (1) 1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a person's character or character trait is not admissible to prove that on a particular occasion the person.

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Court limits right to attorney’s fees for some civil rights suits

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorneys fees even though a federal district court issued an order in their favor that temporarily prohibited the state from enforcing the law and the states legislature repealed the law.

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“Julia Grant ’23 To Clerk at U.S. Supreme Court; Former Clinic Student Will Work for Justice Brett Kavanaugh”

HowAppealing

Supreme Court; Former Clinic Student Will Work for Justice Brett Kavanaugh”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report. “Julia Grant 23 To Clerk at U.S.

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Justices take up double jeopardy case

SCOTUSBlog

Last year the Supreme Court set aside a decision by a federal appeals court in Virginia in a challenge to so-called bias-response team policies, procedures created by universities to solicit, track, and investigate reports of bias. It told the lower court to dismiss the case because Virginia Tech had changed its policy.

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“Maryland Supreme Court finds Child Victims Act of 2023 constitutional”

HowAppealing

And Virginia Bridges and Cathy Clabby of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina report that “ NC Supreme Court upholds child sexual abuse survivors right to sue years later.” You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Maryland at this link.

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2 New Jersey Journalists Face Criminal Charges for Publishing Information From a Police Blotter

The Volokh Conspiracy

Daily Mail Publishing Company , for example, the Court held that a West Virginia statute making it a crime to publish the names of juvenile offenders was unconstitutional. In the 1979 case Smith v.

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