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The Court of Appeals (Chin, Walker and Robinson) reemphasizes that trial courts cannot sua sponte grant summary judgment without giving the parties a chance to make their case in writing through the formal motion process. [read post]

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Does a Magistrate Have the Discretion to Refuse to Issue Criminal Process When Probable Cause Exists?

19 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty

State v. [read post]

North Carolina Criminal Law Blog - http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/

Applying the doctrine of forum non conveniens

14 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Wormwood Capital LLC v Mulleady, 203 AD3d 500 [1st Dept 2022]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Applying the doctrine of forum non conveniens

14 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Wormwood Capital LLC v Mulleady, 203 AD3d 500 [1st Dept 2022]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Half of August and the Rest of 2023

14 Jan 2024, 8:10 am by Andrew Delaney

State v. [read post]

Supreme Court of Vermont Law Blog - http://scovlegal.blogspot.com/

Constitutional Law Scholars on the Impeachment Proceedings Against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas

10 Jan 2024, 1:27 am by Joshua Matz

Chin Edward L. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

Untimely claim means transgender inmate cannot sue corrections officer for sexual assault

21 Dec 2023, 6:33 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

"Judge Chin dissents. [read post]

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The culture wars have arrived at the Second Circuit

18 Dec 2023, 6:44 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

They can also recover injunctive relief in the form of a retroactive change in the record books.The case is Soule v. [read post]

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Trump waived presidential immunity defense in Jean Carroll's defamation case

15 Dec 2023, 7:36 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

Jean Carroll defamation case.The case is Carroll v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Trump Waived Presidential Immunity Defense in Jean Carroll's Libel Case Against Him

13 Dec 2023, 9:19 am by Eugene Volokh

So holds the Second Circuit today, in an opinion (Carroll v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Religious challenge to COVID vaccine mandate fails

29 Nov 2023, 6:19 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

In this case, the plaintiff loses after claiming a religious exemption to a COVID vaccination mandate.The case is D'Cunha v. [read post]

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Week in Review

26 Oct 2023, 9:05 pm by Noah Brown

Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. [read post]

RegBlog - https://www.theregreview.org/

A Panel of the Second Circuit holds (over a dissent) that a non-citizen is removable for a crime involving moral turpitude “for which a sentence of one year or longer may be imposed” — under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(i) — even though New York subsequently reduced the maximum sentence for Class A misdemeanors from one year to “364 days” and made the change retroactive. Vasquez v. Garland, No. 21-6380, __ F.4th ____ (2d Cir. Sept. 13, 2023) (C.J.J.’s Jacobs and Chin; C.J.J. Robinson dissenting).

22 Sep 2023, 1:25 pm by Darrell Fields

Vasquez v. [read post]

Federal Defenders of New York Blog - http://blog.federaldefendersny.org/

Bloomberg campaign workers lose breach of contract case

19 Sep 2023, 10:16 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

They sue for fraudulent inducement and promissory estoppel.The case is Cordova v. [read post]

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