Hawai‘i AG Defends Age and Background Check Requirements for Semiautomatic Assault Rifle Sales
Hawaiʻi Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to file an amicus brief in support of a Washington state initiative regulating the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles.
New requests animate student-transfer case
Activity has resumed in a 2019 federal lawsuit in which four south Arkansas school districts challenged state directives that the school systems permit Public School Choice Act interdistrict student transfers.
Wetlands Dumping Case Overturned
The Court of Appeals overturned a man's conviction for dumping debris along the Mowry Slough in Newark, near the Don Edwards San Francisco.
Wetlands Dumping Case Overturned
The Court of Appeals overturned a man's conviction for dumping debris along the Mowry Slough in Newark, near the Don Edwards San Francisco.
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Conviction For Discharging Pollution Near The Bay
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Thursday reversed the conviction of James Philip Lucero for engineering a scheme to dispose of dirt and debris on lands adjoining the Mowry Slough in Newark, near the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Federal Judge Peter Hall looks to slow down
Federal Judge Peter W. Hall, of Rutland, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has announced he is taking senior status — essentially going into semi-retirement.
Equal protection in Virginia and free exercise in Maine
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Title IX and equal protection require a school district to allow transgender students to use the restrooms of their gender identities and whether free exercise and equal protection require a Maine tuition assistance
DC's Federal Court to Resume Jury Trials as Capitol Cases Pile Up
Share with Email Thank you for sharing!The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S.Courthouse, home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on June 6, 2020.
LDF Secures Victory in Case on Qualified Immunity Doctrine
Read a PDF of our statement here.Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision in Vette v. Sanders, affirming the denial of qualified immunity and permitting Eric Tyler Vette’s civil rights claims to proceed.
MacDonald sworn in as chief justice of NH Supreme Court
CONCORD — Former Attorney General Gordon MacDonald was sworn in as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday in a ceremony where he paid tribute to a former judge and mentor who gifted him his own judicial robes.
U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit
Support Local Journalism The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today affirmed multiple findings of civil contempt against disbarred attorney Steven Donziger, effectively bringing to a close his campaign to profit from the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment he procured in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Steves v. JELD-WEN: 4th Circuit Affirms Divestiture in Private Antitrust Lawsuit
The recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Steves & Sons, Inc. v. JELD-WEN, Inc., 2021 WL 630521 (4th Cir.
Puerto Rico revenue bonds can continue not paying, court says
Puerto Rico revenue bonds can continue not paying debt service during the bankruptcy, an appeals court decided late Wednesday.
Generics companies face risk as SCOTUS questions patent tribunal’s constitutionality
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on the constitutionality of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an essential piece of the United States patent litigation puzzle and favored tool of generic and biosimilar patent challengers since its formation in 2012.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers first opinion in case involving records disclosure
The Sierra Club sued the Trump administration in 2018, arguing the Freedom of Information Act required agencies to disclose the studies it conducted about the biological impact of an Environmental Protection Agency rule outlining how power plants and other industrial entities can draw water to cool machinery.
Cynthia Fisher: Patients should know actual, not estimated, prices
Beginning this year with the implementation of a new Health and Human Services rule, American consumers won the right, upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeals, to access real hospital prices.