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Introduction On 23 March 2020 the Supreme Court unloaded its cannons on the Copyright Clarification Act (CRCA) 1990, holding in Allen v Cooper that Congress lacks authority to abrogate states immunity from copyright infringement suits.(1) The unanimous decision found that the courts previous holding in a case rejecting the sovereign immunity abrogation clause in the nearly identical Patent Remedy Act compelled a similar result.(2) Thus, states are now effectively immune from copyright infringe...

President Trump has filed a Writ of Certiorari with the US Supreme Court in relation to the multiple rulings by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court regarding the elimination of statutory requirements regarding signature verification, the right of campaigns to challenge invalid mail ballots, mandates that mail voters fill in, date, and sign mail ballot declarations and the right of campaigns to observe the mail ballot canvassing process in a meaningful way. QUESTIONS PRESENTED "Article II of the Cons...

By Julie Borowski July 05, 2012 “The shocking verdict to uphold the entire ObamaCare law is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in recent history. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor in the majority opinion stating that the individual mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance is not valid under the Commerce Clause but it can survive as a tax. This ruling officially turns ObamaCare into the lar...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading throughout the country and causing widespread disruption throughout New York City, the City Council enacted multiple local ordinances and laws aimed at combating the resulting economic impact.  The "Residential Harassment Law" and the "Commercial Harassment Law" each amended pre-existing ordinances prohibiting landlords from harassing residential and co...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On November 25, 2020, Justice Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision in Melendez, et al. v. The City of New York, et al. (No. 20-CV-5301 (RA) upholding amendments to certain New York City Council ordinances prohibiting landlords from harassing residential and commercial tenants impacted by COVID-19 and preventing landlords from enforcing personal guaranties in commerci...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 On November 25, 2020, Justice Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision in Melendez, et al. v. The City of New York, et al. (No. 20-CV-5301 (RA) upholding amendments to certain New York City Council ordinances prohibiting landlords from harassing residential and commercial tenants impacted by COVID-19 and preventing landlords from enforcing personal guaranties in commercial leases if the tenan...

Dec 16, 2020 Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted. Yet, Trump, never one to be restrained by precedent, has let it be hinted that he might issue prophylactic pardons to relatives and colleagues who have neither been convicted nor charged with any crimes. And he might pardon himself. Can he do that? The short answer is yes. Here is the bac...

- US Supreme Court, There is no legal obligation for police officers to protect citizens. There may be a moral obligation. And there may be the obligation thrust on certain departments whove adopted mottos or decorated their badges with "protection" niceties, but that obligation only goes as far as the courts demand… which is nowhere. Seventy-year-old Bill Norkunas, a childhood polio survivor, headed over to the light and flicked it on hoping to scare away whoever was there. Instead, the lig...

By Zack Smith | December 14, 2020 | 10:36am EST A voter casts his ballot at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters. (Photo credit: SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images) The U.S. Supreme Court issued a short order Friday night declining to hear Texas’ recently filed lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Texas sought to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election in those states. Texas raised a number of substantive i...

 The Supreme Court’s Rejection Of Texas’s Election Lawsuit Failed The Constitution It is hard to believe the justices put the constitutional question above their desire to avoid appearing to meddle in the 2020 election.By Margot Cleveland Posted By Ruth King on December 14th, 2020 Late Friday, the Supreme Court rejected Texas’s election-related lawsuit against fellow states Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The Supreme Cour...