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Coffee-causes-cancer cases still barred as SCOTUS declines intervention
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court won't reignite coffee-causes-cancer lawsuits in California, declining to hear an appeal on April 17. -
Johnson & Johnson stuck with $344 million California judgment
Johnson & Johnson has no further avenues for challenging a $344 million judgment in California after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the case, which J&J and other said was based upon an unconstitutionally vague consumer-protection status. -
Georgia-Pacific wants SCOTUS review of case it says would clog courts with pollution claims
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Georgia-Pacific has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision it says misconstrued the federal Superfund pollution law and will force companies to clog the courts with speculative lawsuits against other potential polluters unless it is struck down. -
SCOTUS asked to address 'dangerous trend' by state attorneys general
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Out of options after California’s highest court rejected its appeal, Johnson & Johnson has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $344 million judgment based upon what it called unconstitutionally vague state consumer protection laws. -
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Blankenship's conviction appeal
WASHINGTON – The United State Supreme Court has said it won’t review the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. -
Morrisey leads U.S. Supreme Court brief supporting stronger religious freedom at work
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a broader right to religious accommodations in the workplace. -
House Democrats vote against amendment that would limit SCOTUS to 9 justices
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general and elected officials are striving to amend the U.S. Constitution so that no more than nine judges can sit on the U.S. Supreme Court at any given time. However, House Democrats last week failed to support the measure. -
The 'Keep Nine' amendment protects the independence of the Supreme Court
"The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.” -
Supreme Court to mull $25M weedkiller/cancer case as Biden admin flips view
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to discuss Thursday whether to accept Monsanto’s appeal of a $25 million jury verdict based on its failure to put a warning label on Roundup herbicide -- a label the Environmental Protection Agency has said would violate federal law. -
Justice Dept. opposes appeal of decision ordering breaks for flight attendants
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Biden administration has opposed U.S. Supreme Court review of an appellate decision enforcing California wage-and-hour rules for flight attendants, even as it acknowledges it would be impossible for airlines to comply with the section of the law allowing employees to leave the premises during meal breaks. -
Woman claiming SEC prosecutes before hand-picked, protected judges going to SCOTUS
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A fight over how the Securities and Exchange Commission conducts prosecutions is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Morrisey, other state AGs call on Garland to enforce law about intimidating Supreme Court Justices
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey joined 24 other state AGs in calling on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to enforce a federal law against attempts to intimidate U.S. Supreme Court Justices by protesting outside the justices’ homes. -
SCOTUS nominee granted compassionate release to a man who killed a U.S. marshal on church steps
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson granted compassionate release to a man who killed a U.S. marshal on church steps while helping his brother escape from custody. -
Cases against doctors at SCOTUS weigh heavily on opioid litigation against Walmart
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A pair of cases now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court might decide whether the government can pursue billions of dollars in damages from Walmart for filling “invalid” opioid prescriptions. At the core of the cases is the question of when a doctor – and by extension, a pharmacist – crosses the line from practicing legitimate medicine to illegally selling drugs like a street-corner pusher. -
U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in EPA greenhouse gases case
WASHINGTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office went to the U.S. Supreme Court for oral arguments about the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gases. -
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Loughry's appeal
WASHINGTON – Former state Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry’s attempt to have the U.S. Supreme Court review his case has been denied. -
ALI's Consumer Contracts Restatement may come up for approval vote this year, despite increasing concerns
PHILADELPHIA – At a virtual meeting this week, the Philadelphia-based American Law Institute is scheduled to continue work on a Restatement meant to give legal clarity to consumer contracts – a project yielding “significant concerns,” according to a member of the legal scholarship organization, especially since it may come up for a final vote at the group’s annual meeting this spring. -
Morrisey praises preliminary injunction against Head Start COVID mandates
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey applauded a Louisiana federal judge’s ruling that says President Biden’s administration cannot impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on teachers in the Head Start early education program. -
Morrisey calls EPA appeal one of state's 'most consequential cases in decades'
WASHINGTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey calls an appeal he’s leading against the Environmental Protection Agency before the U.S. Supreme Court “one of the most consequential cases our state has seen in decades.” -
Morrisey-led coalition files opening brief in energy case against EPA
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a coalition of 19 states have filed an opening brief in its landmark case against the Environmental Protection Agency at the U.S. Supreme Court.