Navigating With a New Map: Impact of Changes to the District Courts of Appeal Territorial BoundariesMoore, Thomasina F.Florida Bar Journal
The most recent congressional map, enacted in January after federal courts rejected earlier voting bounds, remains in place for the upcoming election, as the Supreme Court in Maygave the green lightfor it to be used this cycle. A three-judge district court panel had blocked the state from usi...
Alabama’s racially gerrymandered map was just the latest Republican-led redistricting scheme to be struck down in the courts as voting rights groups and activists rush to challenge the GOP’s nationwide map-rigging spree—with no help from Democratic lawmakers at the federal level. Alabama’s ...
quality and other is extremely high. However, while every other federal, state, and local agency have been happy to help citizens better enjoy thier public lands, the same cannot be said for the NPS. For months they ignored my repeated requests for some trail data they had that was not po...
Courts are generally loathe to change election rules once voting has begun. But the majority opinion said that because they were asked to resolve a claim about ballots about a previous election and not the upcoming one, they were not ruling too close to an election. ...
In federal court, the parties can consent to proceed before a magistrate judge instead of the district judge assigned to the case. By obtaining this agreement, you may be able to avoid some of the pitfalls of proceeding before the same judge who presided over the injunctive proceedings and ...
Bring a picnic and make the most of their picnic area, take the kids to the playground, stroll through the rose garden, and marvel at the exotic plants in the Japanese Garden. And there’s more… the Portland Zoo is here too, there are tennis courts where you can play a friendly (or...
In 1890, congress passed the Sherman Act, which prohibits “every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade” (among other things), but it left it to the courts to decide how to apply this on a more case-by-case basis. A pricing agreement has historically been seen as ...
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(2) Will there be any movement at the federal level to carve publicity rights out of the estate tax system in the same way that a family farm has been? This would not eliminate taxation on any postmortem income generated by uses of a person’s name or likeness, but would be a straight...