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7 Apr 2023, 1:18 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
 Moderator: Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam Copyright Law and/or/vs. a ‘Brussels Effect’ for the Digital Services Act Jennifer Urban, Berkeley Law School The Brussels Effect claim is descriptive, not predictive—can it apply to the DSA? [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Capitol Rioter Who Shocked Police Officer with Stun Gun Is Sentenced to Over 12 Years in Prison Associated Press News – Michael Kunzelman | Published: 6/21/2023 Daniel Rodriguez, who drove a stun gun into a police officer’s neck during one of the most violent clashes of the U.S. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Lawmaker Hid One Key Fact as He Fought Checks on Gun Shops DNyuz – Glen Thrush (New York Times) | Published: 8/25/2023 Rep. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Nikki Haley Slams Foreign Lobbyists While Accepting Funds from Them ABC News – Soo Rin Kim | Published: 5/31/2023 Despite calling for a ban on foreign lobbying, in which Americans lobby lawmakers and the public for foreign interests, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has raised tens of thousands of dollars in donations from foreign lobbyists, disclosure reports show. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Bipartisan Group Seeks to Limit Who Federal Agencies Can Contract With Government Executive – Eric Katz | Published: 7/14/2022 A bipartisan group of senators is looking to set new limitations on the entities with which federal agencies can contract, introducing legislation to ban the government from doing business with companies that work with certain other nations. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:37 pm by Ron Miller
In case you missed the in-depth coverage of Employment Law Daily for July, here’s a recap of some key developments in the L&E community. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Brooklyn’s Library Moves to Slip Books Through Red State Bans MSN – Madina Touré (Politico) | Published: 9/24/2022 The front line of America’s culture war now runs straight through the nation’s school libraries, with conservatives in dozens of states outlawing books and instruction and the left working to shield targeted authors. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden’s Vow to Limit Ethics Conflicts Finds a Test Case: The Ricchetti brothers MSN – Michael Scherer and Sean Sullivan (Washington Post) | Published: 6/14/2021 President Biden vowed to ban his own family from involvement in government, disclose records of White House visitors, and support new legislation that would expand the definition of lobbying and mandate more detailed disclosure of contacts with White House officials. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 4:57 am by Joanna L. Grossman
It is not clear whether any abortion restriction, no matter how harsh, would be held to violate the Due Process Clause (formerly the home of abortion rights) under the highly deferential standard of review that will now be applied.Although the laws were invalidated 49 years ago by the Supreme Court, the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, stated immediately after Dobbs that he believes the pre-Roe bans are back in effect—having sprung back to life by the overruling of the… [read post]
17 Jul 2021, 1:00 pm by Michael Lowe
Attorney General Ken Paxton made the following statement regarding the new law: “Texas is the first in the country to punish sex buyers with felonies, which is a substantial step towards curbing the demand for commercial sex. [read post]
15 Jun 2022, 11:32 am by Michael Lowe
” Texas is Also Targeting Mortgage Fraud Cases Obviously, Ken Paxton as the Attorney General for the State of Texas has assigned specific state assistant attorneys general to pursue mortgage fraud matters. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 11:54 am by Jeff Wurzburg (US)
On February 26, 2018, a group of twenty states[1], led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to have the ACA declared unconstitutional. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 7:41 am by Kate Huddleston
In September 2021, as many Haitian migrants crossed into the Texas town of Del Rio, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick claimed that Democrats were permitting migrants at the U.S. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 8:40 pm by Dale Carpenter
 This license-and-recognize reading was essentially the view urged by the Petitioners in Pidgeon (a pastor and a CPA who oppose same-sex marriage), along with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, AG Ken Paxton, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and dozens of state lawmakers and “Conservative Leaders. [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 2:03 pm by John Elwood
But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, representing the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, has filed a brief opposing relief, arguing that the case is “fact-bound, procedurally flawed, and Texas-law-focused. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Ken Kollman, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, said a House map with many competitive seats would mean a party could win a few from the other side, or totally wipe out. [read post]
11 Jul 2022, 6:01 am by Daphne Keller, Max Levy
Transparency is essential to getting every other part of platform regulation right. [read post]
8 Nov 2023, 1:26 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
PLI Media Law conference RT: There’s been a rapid and somewhat disorienting shift from a seemingly ever-growing First Amendment freedom of speech to a seeming indifference to speech and press based claims (as contrasted to religious freedom claims) in many categories, concentrated in the sudden conservative abandonment of the commercial speech doctrine. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 9:13 am by Sarah Libowsky, Krista Oehlke
In his first weeks in office, President Biden issued several executive actions focused on reevaluating and unwinding the panoply of protectionist immigration policies former President Trump set in place through executive branch action. [read post]