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SEC Files Brief in Support of Climate Disclosure Rules

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On August 6, the SEC filed its much-anticipated legal brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting its controversial Climate Rules and responding to the arguments laid out in petitioners’ consolidated petitions for...more

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GOP AGs & DOJ Choreograph Separate Actions Against TikTok

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A group of 21 Republican AGs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland, No.24-1113, in support of the U.S. DOJ and urging the court to deny the petition for...more

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Democratic AGs File Amicus Brief Supporting Drug Pricing Transparency Law

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A group of 21 Democratic AGs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting Oregon in its defense of H.B. 4005, which requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report certain information...more

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Social Media and State Action: The Supreme Court Considers When Government Officials Block Commenters “Under Color of” State Law

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When public officials block commenters from their social media pages, are they acting “under color of” state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983? Yesterday, October 31, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two...more

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IRA Drug Price Negotiation Program Litigation Updates - Denial of PI Motion and Motion to Dismiss in Chambers of Commerce Case and...

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Denial of Motion to Dismiss and Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Chambers of Commerce case - On Friday, September 29, the court in Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce et al. v. Becerra et al. (S.D. Ohio, Judge Newman)...more

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Third Circuit Upholds Pennsylvania Rule 8.4(g) Prohibiting Harassment and Discrimination in the Practice of Law

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed an Eastern District court ruling striking down a Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct prohibiting knowing harassment and discrimination in the practice of...more

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Holtzman Vogel Supreme Court Review, October Term 2022

By: Jason Torchinsky, Ed Wenger, Jan Baran, Jonathan P. Lienhard, Kent Safriet, and David Brown The Supreme Court wrapped up its decisions from the October 2022 Term, with a blockbuster final week addressing issues like...more

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Amicus Brief Urges Ohio Supreme Court to Hear Appeal in High-Profile Case about First Amendment Protections

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Jenner & Block filed an amicus brief on behalf of the NAACP and the Ohio State Chapter of the NAACP urging the Ohio Supreme Court to hear Oberlin College’s appeal in Gibson Bros, Inc., et al., v. Oberlin. Oberlin is...more

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AG Healey Leads Coalition Filing Anti-Discrimination Brief

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Massachusetts AG Maura Healey, leading a coalition of nineteen states and the District of Columbia, filed an amicus curiae brief defending the constitutionality of New York’s anti-discrimination law in an appeal to the Second...more

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Texas District Court Strikes Down State Drone Law on First Amendment Grounds

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On March 28, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas found that a Texas law restricting drone use ran afoul of the First Amendment. The law imposed civil and criminal penalties for drone-based...more

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A Break Down of the SCOTUS Oral Argument on First Amendment Right to Privacy in Association

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Wiley’s Lee Goodman, Andrew Woodson, and Jeremy Broggi break down the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 26 oral arguments in two cases: Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta and Thomas More Law Center v. Bonta. The cases...more

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument on California’s Attempt To Collect Names of Donors to Nonprofits

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The petitioners appeared to have a more sympathetic bench and went so far as to say the Attorney General of the State of California was “not genuine” in his position. On April 26, the Supreme Court held a lively oral...more

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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Nonprofit Donor Disclosure Case

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Currently, charities are only required to disclose the names of their major donors to the IRS – which must keep them under seal – on federal Schedule B. The Supreme Court is set to schedule arguments in April for two...more

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The State AG Report Weekly Update October 2018 #1

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Antitrust= 31 Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Allow Indirect Purchasers to Bring Antitrust Lawsuit Against Technology Company- A bipartisan coalition of 31 AGs filed an amicusbrief in...more

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To Save Secrecy Lawsuit, Twitter Must Challenge DOJ’s Decision to Classify Surveillance Requests

This month, a federal judge dismissed Twitter’s lawsuit challenging limits on the disclosure of government requests for information on Twitter users, pressing the company to file an amended complaint contesting the...more

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