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Housing groups and think tanks have filed legal documents supporting the owners of New York’s rent stabilized apartments in their fight against 2019 rent laws they believe are unconstitutional. The so-called amicus briefs back the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) and the Rent Stabilization Association in their federal lawsuit against the City of New York. The lawsuit, filed in July 2019 and currently on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, challenges re...

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Defending liberty against political prosecution Updated: Updated: January 22, 2021 12:17 IST Courts need to recognise selective prosecution as a threshold constitutional defence against the abuse of state power Share Article AAA Courts need to recognise selective prosecution as a threshold constitutional defence against the abuse of state power One of the oldest, most pernicious and widespread forms of abuse of state power in India involves the police and enforcement agencies selectively tar...

Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a Memo in ...

DERRICK JAMES | Staff photo The attorney for Bryce Miller, center, filed an appeal with the Oklahoma State Court of Criminal Appeals asking for Millers 20-year sentence for second-degree murder be be vacated, reversed, or "favorably" modified due to alleged errors made during the trial. An attorney for a McAlester teenager convicted of murder filed an appeal requesting the sentence be vacated, reversed, or "favorably" modified, claiming nine errors were made during the trial. Bryce Miller, 18, ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The debate as to whether companies registered to do business in Pennsylvania have consented to general personal jurisdiction continues, and the issue is finally before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. As we have discussed in prior alerts, the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration statutory framework 1 has been a hot-button issue since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2014 decision in Daimler AG v. Bauman, wh...

A federal court has granted a request from the Alabama Association of Realtors and the Georgia Association of Realtors to temporarily suspend their lawsuit against the Trump administration over a nationwide eviction ban that Congress has extended until the end of January. The trade groups will revisit the case at the beginning of February after the ban has expired or been extended. “With the transition to a new administration just days away and the eviction moratorium set to expire on Januar...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The first months of the Supreme Court’s 2020 term have had an aura of fatigue: a nation gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, a court adjusting to a new colleague and an unusually light caseload (to be argued by telephone). Despite all this, the Court will address a number of issues important to businesses, including bankruptcy, administrative law, personal jurisdiction and liability under the Alien Tort Statute. Perhaps the most elucid...

Thursday, January 7, 2021 With little forewarning to the regulated community, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) passed a sweeping new standard requiring employers in the state to implement prescribed COVID-19 protections. On November 19, Cal/OSHA voted unanimously to pass the “Emergency COVID-19 Prevention Regulations” (the “Standard”) and on November 30, the Standard went into effect. As covered in our previous updates, the Standard o...

Stefanik to object to election results in four states North country congresswoman Elise Stefanik speaks Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. (Source: CBS) By Scott Atkinson | January 6, 2021 at 12:05 PM EST - Updated January 6 at 1:33 PM WASHINGTON, D.C. (WWNY) - North country congresswoman Elise Stefanik will join more than a hundred other Republicans in the House of Representatives today in contesting the results of November’s presidential election. Specifically,...