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DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the constitutional boundaries for determining political conflicts of interest, a Colorado court rejected claims a county commissioner should have recused himself from voting on a concrete plant permit because the company’s shareholders contributed several thousand dollars to his campaign.

The Buckeye Institute filed its appeal in Buckeye v. Kilgore with the Ohio Supreme Court asking the court to hear the case and recognize Ohio’s emergency-based local income tax system—where the state forced people to work from home, but nonetheless deemed their work to have been performed in a higher-taxed office location—as unconstitutional.

While U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman described the killing as horrific, he concluded in a Jan. 6 decision that he could not exercise jurisdiction over the case, despite being allowed to by the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act.

In General Motors Corporation v. Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the state’s prior flat $2 million cap on a corporate taxpayer’s net operating loss (NOL)...

In 2021, thanks to the seventh “personal jurisdiction” opinion decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in just over a decade, as well as some state-based legal developments, we now have firm...

In law as in real estate, “location, location, location.” Where a case is filed is often outcome-determinative. Jury pools and jurisprudence vary from…

Summaries of upcoming Minnesota Supreme Court arguments.

The complaint, targeting Louisiana’s complex sales tax collection system, comes after voters rejected a constitutional amendment to simplify local sales and use tax collection.

The Supreme Court is asked to settle a 13-year dispute between participants in a terminated Delphi pension plan and the PBGC.

A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion provides out-of-state corporations more protection from litigation tourists, bringing the state’s general personal jurisdiction rules in line...