Supreme Court Inifies Filing ; Court Mandates Uniform System for Circuit ClerksAll of West Virginia's circuit clerk offices soon will have thesame filing system, the state...White, Kate
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The Situation:The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that filing a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to bringing a Title VII lawsuit. The requirement to file a charge is instead a claim-processing rule,...
"Like a law criminalizing breathing outside by homeless persons, the City's ordinances punish respondents for simply existing within City limits," they wrote in a filing urging the Supreme Court not to take up the city's appeal. Ed Johnson, who is representing the homeless re...
Or they compare the fees paid to a plan's recordkeeper to the recordkeeping fees paid by a different plan or reported in a median survey of some subset of plans. Then they ask courts to infer from those outcomes that plan fiduciaries' decision-making process must have been inadequate, and...
Grants Pass officials appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court,arguingin a filing that "modest" fines and short jail terms for camping on public property are not cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment. Theane Evangelis, the lawyer representing the city, told the justices during...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Byron Allen’s racial discrimination case against Comcast on Wednesday, pressing both sides with questions about the legal standards for such claims.The case stems from a 2015 racial discrimination lawsuit in which Allen and his company Entertainment ...
Cyan challenged the trial court’s ruling by filing a writ in the California Court of Appeal and a petition for review in the California Supreme Court, both of which were rejected. It then sought review before the U.S. Supreme Court. Today the Supreme Court reaffirmed the ability of state...
The Justice Department told the Supreme Court in afilingthat the 9th Circuit was right to find that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a local government from effectively criminalizing homelessness by prohibiting individuals who lack access to shelter from residing in that area. But it said applying tha...
allowed to stand, the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling would "mark the first time in the history of the United States that the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major-party presidential candidate," lawyers for the former president warned the justices in a filing...