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24 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
  As we discuss further in Section IV, SB 264 is also the subject of  a constitutional and statutory challenge in the federal courts in the case of Shen v. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court’s decision in the 2010 Citizens United case transformed the world of politics. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 9:10 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Many years ago, I wrote a note about these disputes seeking return of engagement rings after a broken engagement, which is cited in the dissent--which also reads as an invitation to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to revisit its fault-based rule for when an engagement ring should go back to the (remorseful) giver.http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default? [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 11:46 am by LII Team
Supreme Court Bulletin As always, the thirty-six Cornell Law students who researched, drafted, and edited our Supreme Court Bulletin Previews for the 2022 – 23 term provided the public with important analysis of the arguments made by the parties in every SCOTUS case. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 8:30 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Massachusetts Appeals Court reversed and remanded a matter involving a broken engagement After calling off their wedding and ending the parties' engagement, the plaintiff brought this action in the Superior Court against his former fiancée, seeking the recovery of... [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
” In May 2020, the district court found that the syndicated bank loan at issue was not a security and dismissed the case.[2]  On appeal to the Second Circuit, the plaintiff argued, among other things, that the Court had erroneously applied the “family resemblance test” established by the Supreme Court in Reves v. [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 2:38 pm by bndmorris
Three opinions from the Supreme Court of Texas were among the important decisions analyzed. [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 2:31 pm by bndmorris
Three opinions from the Supreme Court of Texas were among the important decisions analyzed. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 7:12 am by Legal Profession Prof
The much-anticipated decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court imposing sanctions on three prosecutors who had participated in withholding exculpatory evidence has been issued A prosecutor "may prosecute with earnestness and vigor -- indeed, he should do so. [read post]
Posted by Ed Folsom August 29, 2023 On Thursday, August 24, 2023, Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) sent letters to seven large Maine Law firms asking them to encourage their attorneys to take appointed-counsel cases (story here). [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 7:09 am by Legal Profession Prof
Randomly-assigned college roommates are not "household members" eligible for protection from abuse after one had assaulted another, according to an opinion of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial court Turning to the facts of this case, we conclude that the parties were... [read post]
Target Corp., 480 Mass. 14 (2018), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts interpreted this to limit a creditor to two phone calls within a seven-day period. [read post]
24 Aug 2023, 7:29 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court remanded a will contest The decedent, Theresa A. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 9:06 pm by Dan Flynn
” The EATS Act would overturn the Supreme Court’s May 11, 2023, ruling that, with a 5-to-4  vote, found states have the right to regulate products sold within their state. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 5:36 am by Guest Author
., Jack Michael Beermann, Major Questions, Delegation, Chevron and the Anti-Innovation Supreme Court at 8 (March 9, 2023) (“This article also illustrates how the Court is doing a poor job providing clear instructions to lower courts and other government entities on how and in some cases even whether to apply its doctrines. [read post]
Background Harvard concerns insurance coverage for Harvard’s nine-year-long defense of challenges to its affirmative action policies that ultimately were decided by the Supreme Court this past June. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 8:25 pm by Greg Lambert
Marlene Gebauer 5:39 I remember when I was at the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and I may have mentioned this last time we talked, the most trouble ever got into was during a training session, explaining how one counties court information may be completely different than another counties court information, even though it’s on the same system. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 11:50 am by Josh Blackman
As a general rule, Supreme Court Justices speak through their opinions. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 6:56 pm by Stephen Halbrook
Massachusetts when it held that 200,000 stun guns were in common use.) [read post]