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24 Oct 2023, 9:50 am
Rather these guidelines are meant to be projected out to the class of people and institutional organs against which they might assert the authority of the state. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 2:16 pm
The lower courts held that federal officials had transformed the private platforms' content-moderation decisions into state action and violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove COVID-19 misinformation, highlighting the risk of disinformation from foreign actors, and responding to the platforms' inquiries about matters of public health. [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 7:00 am
Illinois State Law: The Illinois Attorney General may bring a civil action. [read post]
15 Oct 2023, 6:30 am
” To begin with a quick clarification: the above quote is not Michelman’s own view, but a constructive challenge that he poses for those who are critical of state-centric conceptions of constitutional rights law. [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 1:16 pm
Such phrases, the Court found, “refer[] to the consequences of an action rather than the actor’s intent. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
As the Court stated: “We have time and again forcefully rejected the notion that government actors may intentionally allocate preferences to those ‘who may have little in common with one another but the color of their skin” (quoting Shaw v. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
., Letter from Council for Investor Rights and Corporate Accountability at 16, (Apr. 11, 2022), https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-06-22/s70622-20123223-279501.pdf (“A fundamental structural aspect of highly regulated U.S. capital markets is that uncoerced, willing sellers and willing buyers are permitted to trade at the time and price of their own choosing and without revealing their identity, actions, plans, proposals or transactions to their counterparties in advance. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Constitution, which supersedes any state law to the contrary. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 8:32 am
Use of “significant public benefit” parole to allow broad classes of migrants to enter the United States may be politically risky. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 2:19 pm
(We at Short Circuit are chilled from posting a hyperlink, lest it transform us into Class E felons in the Volunteer State, but Google it!) [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 7:53 pm
Since 2018, Sheehan’s firm has filed more than five hundred consumer-protection class-action suits, making New York one of the top states for such cases. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 8:13 am
To date, however, the FCC has not stated whether it plans to remain open – and if so, for how long – if a government shutdown does occur. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
Perhaps the smell of alcohol is coming from a passenger in the first class cabin sipping merlot. [read post]
24 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
Geopolitical tensions and strategic competition between the United States and China have increasingly influenced the investment landscape in recent years, implicating established regulatory frameworks such as that of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), as well as driving non-traditional government actors to take action. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 6:54 am
An Interchange Class-Action Settlement Inches Forward With a Recent Court ActionDigital Transactions News – September 15, 2023 The federal court overseeing a $5.54-billion settlement between millions of card-accepting merchants, on one hand, and Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., on the other, over interchange costs recently took several steps that ultimately could get payments out to merchants. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 7:58 am
That net emissions has emerged as the dominant metric to measure and claim credit for climate action – when it is so full of holes, so impractical for counting anything you actually care about – is mystifying. [read post]
19 Sep 2023, 2:20 pm
See Take Action Today to Protect the Nonprofit, Religious, and Foundation Communities. [read post]
CJEU considers exclusive distribution agreement between infringers sufficient for joint jurisdiction
19 Sep 2023, 5:55 am
However, if a manufacturer sells its products to a reseller in another EU Member State, it is conceivable that infringement claims are asserted against that reseller and that the plaintiff has a strong interest in having the infringement action be decided by one court and not two. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 6:05 am
Although the ruling is likely the first in a series of actions by U.S. courts to restrict the ability of both public and private actors to use affirmative action to eliminate racial inequality in myriad fields – hence commentators immediately heralding the “end of affirmative action” – the decision does not immediately prohibit all “special and concrete measures. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
In addition, the majority states that because the benefits of diversity are not readily quantifiable, they cannot satisfy the strict judicial scrutiny the Court applies to racial classifications. [read post]
