Four new U.S. Supreme Court Fellows are set to begin their 2024-2025 fellowships in September.
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By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, and Derek S. Franklin Duane Morris Takeaways: On August 21, 2024, Judge William C. Griesbach of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin joined in the fray over whether the long-used two-step process for issuing notice of a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) collective …
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Biden administration’s request to be allowed to temporarily enforce most of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding, while its appeals continued.
Friday’s ruling leaves in place for now decisions by federal appeals courts that barred the Biden administration from enforcing any portion of the rule, including three provisions that target discrimination against transgender people … 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 August 5, 2024.
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T.O. Estate v. D.O. was a family law decision that dealt with debts owing between the spouses and their corporations. At trial, the $ 341,000 debt owing by the wife’s company to the husband was found to be statute-barred. The wife was
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The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea from Missouri to block New York from imposing a gag order and sentencing former President Donald Trump in his criminal proceedings there until after the 2024 elections.
After a six-week trial, Trump was convicted in May in a New York state court on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors contended that Trump sought to hide a $ 130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election, … Read the rest
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The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate so-called “ghost guns” in the first week of the 2024-25 term in October, followed the next day by an unusual death-penalty case – in which the state’s attorney general supports the condemned man’s efforts to overturn his conviction and sentence. Garland v. VanDerStok and Glossip v. Oklahoma headline the Supreme Court’s October argument calendar, which was released on Friday morning.
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As we previously reported, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule which, on its anticipated effective date of September 4, 2024, will invalidate nearly all preexisting noncompetition agreements and bar employers from entering into such restrictions with workers in the future.
Since then, the Final Rule has been subject to legal challenges nationwide. Shortly before Independence Day, a Texas federal judge preliminarily enjoined the Final Rule on a limited basis, concluding that the plaintiffs in the case … Read the rest
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The Biden administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily put on hold a portion of two orders issued by federal trial courts in Louisiana and Kentucky that prohibit the Department of Education from enforcing any part of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding.
The two challenges—originally filed in Louisiana by four states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho, along with … Read the rest