Court adds three new cases

Court adds three new cases

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The Supreme Court on Friday evening added three new cases to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The cases, which involve issues ranging from the constitutionality of appointments to an HHS task force to student loan forgiveness and mootness in tax cases, are likely to be among the final cases argued during the current term.

In Becerra v. Braidwood Management, the justices agreed to take up a challenge to the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a … Read the rest

Heir to Chicago political dynasty brings his “false statement” charges to Supreme Court

Heir to Chicago political dynasty brings his “false statement” charges to Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the case of a former Chicago alderman, who served four months in a federal prison for lying to federal financial regulators about loans he took out from a local bank and failed to pay. Patrick Daley Thompson, a member of the city’s most famous political dynasty, hopes that his case will be the latest in a series of cases in which the justices push back against what a majority of the court … Read the rest

低空经济系列:飞行汽车法律问题初探

作者:赵新华 卢怿洵

低空经济是以低空飞行活动为核心,以无人驾驶飞行、低空智联网等技术组成的新质生产力与空域、市场等要素相互作用,带动低空基础设施、低空飞行器制造、低空运营服务和低空飞行保障等领域发展的综合性经济形态。

2024年被称为低空经济“元年”。继2023年12月举行的中央经济工作会议将低空经济列为战略性新兴产业以来,国务院于2024年3月正式将“积极打造生物制造、商业航天、低空经济等新增长引擎”写入政府工作报告。地方层面上,目前我国已有近30多个省份将发展低空经济写入地方政府工作报告或出台相关政策,争相布局低空经济。

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Gun-rights advocates bring twin challenges to Maryland gun-control law

Gun-rights advocates bring twin challenges to Maryland gun-control law

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The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

The Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 gun-rights ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which held that laws restricting the right to bear arms are constitutional under the Second Amendment only if a tradition of such regulation can be found in U.S. history, triggered a wave … Read the rest

Parties file final briefs before Supreme Court hears TikTok case

Parties file final briefs before Supreme Court hears TikTok case

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One week ahead of oral arguments in its challenge to a federal law that would require social-media giant TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell it by Jan. 19, the Biden administration filed its reply brief on Friday, urging the justices to allow the law to go into effect. The law, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices, targets the national security risk of China’s potential control of the Beijing company, … Read the rest