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I’m a legal scholar. We’re in a constitutional crisis — and this is the moment it began.
Some will argue this country entered into a constitutional crisis only recently, but the moment I realized we were in one was ...
Freshfields, Orrick Score Securities Case Defense Win for Rivian in Calif. Appellate Court
In a decision that could provide a road map for upholding federal forum provisions in Southern California, a California court of appeal on Wednesday affirmed a judgment in favor of large electric ...
The Clever Court Ploy That Could Force Trump’s El Salvador Scheme to a Head
The ACLU filed an amended complaint with District Judge James Boasberg seeking to revive proceedings in his courtroom against ...
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A forthcoming Supreme Court decision could limit agencies’ duty to consider environmental harms
A forthcoming ruling could allow federal agencies to skip climate analysis when approving major projects — with wide-reaching ...
What Trump’s order on ‘disparate impact’ means for civil rights
President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive ...
Judge blocks Trump bid to halt federal funding for sanctuary cities
"Here we are again," wrote U.S. District Judge William Orrick, who blocked a similar effort during the president's first term ...
I Wrote the Book on Charter Schools. This Supreme Court Case Could Inadvertently Destroy Them.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is slated to consider a case that could yield “the most significant legal decision to affect ...
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Oregon Supreme Court Clarifies Contribution Rights under the Oregon Environmental Cleanup Assistant Act
Last week, the Oregon Supreme Court issued an important decision interpreting the Oregon Environmental Cleanup Assistance Act ...
Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders
Two major law firms have asked separate judges to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were ...
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Blackstone eyes minority stake in TikTok's US operations amid ownership shake-up
TikTok briefly went dark in the U.S. in January after the Supreme Court upheld the ban ... for TikTok that would involve tapping Oracle ORCL.N and some existing ByteDance investors to ...