Aylo Holdings S.A.R.L., the company that operates Pornhub and other adult websites, acknowledged in federal court that it had profited for years from pornographic content that depicted sex trafficking victims, but pleaded not guilty to a charge of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions involving sex trafficking proceeds, Erin Nolan reports for the New York Times. Through an agreement with prosecutors, the company agreed to pay damages to women who said they were forced to appear in pornographic videos that … Read the rest
Loper Bright Shifts Statutory Interpretation Powers Back to the Courts.
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine with its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Under Chevron, courts have historically deferred to a federal agency’s interpretation of ambiguity in statutes that the agency administers. Courts premised Chevron deference on the notion that Congress implicitly delegated the interpretation to the agency.
In contrast, Loper Bright rejects Chevron’s assumption of implicit delegation: “When the best … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
- States and Creditors for Purdue Pharma Threaten Sacklers With Gush of Lawsuits (Jan Hoffman, The New York Times)
- With Chevron reversal, Supreme Court paves way for a ‘legal earthquake’ (Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC)
- Supreme Court’s Roberts turns court to the right as Barrett emerges as a key player (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
- Supreme Court’s Trump immunity
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
- How the Supreme Court’s immunity decision affects Trump’s legal cases (Tyler Bartlam, NPR)
- Win for Trump, surprise on abortion: Takeaways from historic Supreme Court term (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
- The Supreme Court and Social Media Speech Regulation (Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal)
- The Supreme Court’s Power Grab (David Cole, The New York Review
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
- Supreme Court declines to hear a series of challenges to laws barring felons and drug users from having guns (Devan Cole & John Fritze, CNN)
- In a Volatile Term, a Fractured Supreme Court Remade America (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Takes Back Control (Jess Bravin, The Wall
Investigators in Prague are working to establish a motive for a deadly gun rampage that killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at Charles University in the center of the city, Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross reports for the New York Times. The gunman also fatally shot himself when the police surrounded him on the rooftop of the building. No foreign nationals were killed in the attack, but one person from the Netherlands and two people from the United … Read the rest
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 1, 2024.
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In the leading decision of the week, Binscarth Holdings LP v. Grant Anthony, the Court made new law in Ontario. It held that limited partners in a limited partnership are entitled to seek leave to commence a derivative action on behalf