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Regular readers of Pravda.Ru may recall how I have frequently argued that, especially when it comes to ruling on issues of great social significance, the United States Supreme Court has been wrong more often than it has been right. I say this not as a matter of personal opinion, but as a fact of history and social progress, which this Court has, on more than one occasion, worked zealously to thwart. However, one of the Courts more sagacious rulings came in the case of West Virginia vs. Barnette...

By Jessica Corbett, staff writer at CommonDreams. Originally published at CommonDreams Echoing recent demands from human rights advocates and former detainees, two dozens members of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus on Friday pressed President Joe Biden to finally close the Guantánamo Bay offshore military prison, where 40 men are still being held despite global outrage over the facility and its long record of torture. “As a symbol of lawlessness and human rights abuses, the detention facili...

24 Senators Urge Biden to Close Guantánamo Bay Prison The Guantánamo Bay Prison offshore military prison, seen in a photo taken on October 16, 2018, holds 40 men despite global outrage over the facilitys long record of torture. Maren Hennemuth / picture alliance via Getty Images By Echoing recent demands from human rights advocates and former detainees, two dozens members of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus on Friday pressed President Joe Biden to finally close the Guantánamo Bay off...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In a precedential decision, New Jersey’s intermediate appellate court ruled that a Jersey City ordinance imposing a payroll tax was unconstitutional. Mack-Cali Realty Corp. v. State, No. A-3097-18, 2021 N.J. Super. LEXIS 21 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. February 16, 2021). Jersey City, New Jersey, is home to many companies’ back office operations in the New York metropolitan area. Therefore, we suspect that many companies will have ...

What comes next? On March 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court broadened the reach of specific personal jurisdiction by finding that Ford Motor Co. can be sued in Montana and Minnesota for vehicles that were “designed, manufactured, and first sold” out of state. The Supreme Court held that “[w]hen a company … serves a market for a product in a State and that product causes injury in the State to one of its residents, the State’s courts may entertain the resulting suit.” The decision cou...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has had a reputation as very pro-business. Late last month, however, the Court handed consumers a rare win related to personal jurisdiction. The Court’s opinion has important implications regarding where an injured consumer can sue the manufacturer of a defective product. Before we dive into the Court’s opinion, a crash course on personal jurisdiction is in order. Pursuant to the Constitu...

Crest I), a taxpayer seeks an injunction against the Secretarys allegedly unlawful expenditure of public funds to enforce the "gender quota" as an allegedly invalid classification in violation of the Equal Protection clause of the California Constitution.[12] In June 2020, the superior court overruled the Secretarys demurrer and upheld the taxpayer plaintiffs statutory standing to challenge an allegedly illegal use of public funds.[13] The case is headed for trial in late 2021. The same plainti...

Fair Housing Legislative Advocate The Mississippi Center for Justice seeks to contract with an experienced Legislative Advocate to work on behalf of its Housing Campaign, which aims to replace current Mississippi eviction law and enact new rent-to-own housing regulation. The Center seeks someone with an interest and experience in working with the Mississippi Legislature to draft and pass legislation. This is a part-time contractual position with an estimated time commitment of 20 to 25 hours pe...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division has brought its third criminal antitrust case involving labor markets — this time against a healthcare staffing company and its former manager for allegedly agreeing not to solicit or hire its competitor’s contract nurses and to fix wages for those nurses. The case comes on the heels of the Antitrust Division’s first-ever criminal case involving “no-poach” conduct ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Maryland recently enacted the nation’s first tax on digital advertising. The new tax, the Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax (the “Tax”), became law on February 12, 2021. The Tax has been surrounded by controversy from the very moment it was introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates. In fact, a lawsuit to prevent the Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland from enforcing the Tax was recently filed by a group of affected ...