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7 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Donald Trump’s request to declare Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel invalid, signaling the judge could be more willing than any other trial judge to veto the special prosecutor’s authority. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 3:55 pm by Evan George
Attorneys general in at least nine states—California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia—as well as dozens of municipal governments in California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico, have filed lawsuits. [read post]
  NLRA Preemption This lawsuit provides federal courts with the opportunity to answer the questions as to whether the LPA Sections and other similar requirements in other states are preempted under Garmon and/or Machinists preemption. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals had largely upheld a lower court ruling restricting Trump’s speech in the case. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 7:09 am by Melissa Tremblay
–Joshua Levy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts   Zoll Medical Corporation – Trade Agreements Act $400,000 Settlement  ZOLL Medical Corporation, headquartered in Massachusetts with locations in Rhode Island, paid the United States $400,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Trade Agreements Act (TAA).  The United States contended that ZOLL sold… [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 2:25 pm by Daniel Barry
On January 2, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (“Tenth Circuit”) denied the State of Oklahoma’s motion for a stay pending appeal to the United States Supreme Court and one week later transferred jurisdiction back to the district court[1] regarding Pharmaceutical Care Management Association v. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 11:22 pm by Richard Frank
  It provides water to irrigate over 600,000 acres of farmland in California’s San Joaquin Valley–a district roughly as large as the state of Rhode Island. [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 12:03 pm by David Klein
Currently, six states have sanctioned online casino gaming within their borders (with Rhode Island set to join in early 2024). [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
That group includes a surprising mix of red and blue states: Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.We see a similarly unusual pattern if we look at the states in which the clemency power is used more regularly. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 7:20 am by Robin E. Kobayashi
Robinson, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (LexisNexis) As we move through the third decade of the twenty-first century, the United States remains a land of contradictions. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 9:05 pm by Gianna Hill
” Montana District Court Judge Kathy Seeley enjoined a state law prohibiting consideration of greenhouse gas emissions in the evaluation of fossil fuel permits. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 3:00 am by Chip Merlin
  While the Florida Supreme Court Justices may have a hard time imagining how a formal arbitration hearing could contemplated, all they would have to do is read, Rhode Island Appraisals—The Arbitration Act Applies to Determine the Partiality of Appraisers and Umpires, to learn how judges in another state have such imagination and find that arbitration does apply to insurance appraisals. [read post]
6 Aug 2023, 5:40 am by Joel R. Brandes
Slip Op. 03353 (2d Dept.,2023) Petitioner, a friend of the minor child’s family, commenced aproceeding to be appointed as the guardian of the child and subsequently moved for the issuance of an order enabling the child to petition the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for special immigrant juvenile status. [read post]
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), for example, has focused on ESG by investigating and taking action against companies that tout business practices such as consideration of environmental sustainability, but fail, in practice, to live up to their claims. [read post]
28 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court filings, place new recusal standards on the justices, and require the court to adopt a code of ethics. [read post]