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The unanimous ruling strikes down rulings from Democratic judges in Colorado and Cook County, which had declared individual states have the power under the Fourteenth Amendment to block "insurrectionists" from seeking federal office
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to review the merits of long-running climate change litigation that represents an alliance between personal injury lawyers and government officials nationwide.
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U.S. Supreme Court justices last week expressed skepticism about Colorado’s arguments that the state should be able to disqualify former President Donald Trump from its ballot using the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause,” according to legal observers.
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WASHINGTON – Mike Stuart has joined other former U.S. Attorneys in filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court asking it to overturn the Colorado ruling to keep former President Donald Trump off of that state's primary election ballot.
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WASHINGTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading an amicus brief with Indiana asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision from Colorado that kept former President Donald Trump off the ballot for that state’s presidential primary ballot.
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A Colorado Supreme Court opinion barring former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot erred in saying Trump engaged in an insurrection and was an overreach of the state court’s authority, according to a petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Colorado Republican Party has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn a recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling that removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot because he took part in an insurrection.
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Every company with even a minimal presence in more than one state should heed a June SCOTUS ruling, Mallory v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co., that exposes them to civil actions in states with “consent to jurisdiction statutes
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State Rep. Dan Caulkins and other gun owners from Macon County say the U.S. Supreme Court needs to undo the Illinois high court's ruling on the "assault weapons" ban, because they could not receive a fair hearing when two justices, who already were endorsed by anti-gun groups, got millions of campaign cash from Gov. Pritzker
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The state of Florida is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and limit the scope of an injunction placed on a new state law barring children from attending live drag shows that showcase “lewd” behavior.
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A Jefferson Parish woman is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to alter a judicial precedent in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi that makes public school employees and managers essentially immune from liability when they engage in “unlawful corporal punishment.”
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - BP and Shell have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit by a Louisiana parish over coastal flooding, saying they can’t get a fair trial in a place where any jurors know they have the opportunity to pump billions of dollars into their troubled local economy by ruling against the oil companies.
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WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who had asked the court to overturn a lower court ruling in a defamation case.
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WASHINGTON – West Virginia’s three Republican representatives in Washington joined six other GOP lawmakers in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to support completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and to stop activist attempts to block its construction.
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Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino was among the panelists at the Republican National Lawyers Association conference on May 12
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Dissenting justices warned California should now expect other states to respond in kind, following California's "blueprint" to use state laws and market power to bypass Congress and bend the rest of the country to the will of voters in just one or a handful of states
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is pleased the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to revisit a case focusing on the legal doctrine known as Chevron Deference.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Oil companies facing climate change lawsuits won't have the U.S. Supreme Court's support on a key issue.
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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.
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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.