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Jul 8, 2021 Senator Bradley Asks Why 11th Amendment is Being proposed Senator Darrell Bradley has come out in opposition to the proposed Eleventh Amendment to the Belize Constitution. Late this evening, he issued a statement saying the Amendment seeks to introduce an entirely new and discriminatory disqualification for membership to the House of Representatives. Senator Bradley points out that currently, section eight disqualifies any person who “is under a sentence of death imposed ...

“No concrete harm, no standing.” For the majority in  TransUnion v. Ramirez (No. 20-297), it was that simple. The case involved a key class action issue: whether members of a class who may have been subjected to the same violation of law but who suffered no concrete injury could properly take part in a class-action lawsuit. The Ninth Circuit held that they could, but, in a 5-4 decision penned by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court disagreed. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, TransUnion d...

A surprising Supreme Court When is a case about a pipeline about more than the pipeline? When it produces a 5-4 Supreme Court decision with a surprising mix of conservative and liberal Justices on both sides. Their opinions reflect disagreements from the founding era over the role and power of the federal government. Pipeline developer PennEast has been seeking to build a 116-mile pipeline between Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 2014. The Natural Gas Act of 1938 delegates the federal governme...

Jun 30, 2021 Eleventh Amendment to Be Tabled There is a new piece of legislation being tabled in the House of Representatives in the days ahead.  The Belize Constitution Eleventh Amendment Act seeks to disqualify anyone who is a member of the National Assembly who has been convicted of an offense “in relation to corruption or abuse of public office or convicted of an offense relating to elections or who has served a sentence of imprisonment for more than twelve months, imposed by a ...

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court held in PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey that natural gas pipeline companies with a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) may condemn State lands. In the June 29, 2021 decision, the Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that held the pipeline developer PennEast Pipeline Company could not seize land owned by the St...

PHILADELPHIA – A per curiam panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit agreed with a lower federal court, which had previously thrown out a civil rights case from a man who claimed the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas violated his rights, when he tried to expunge his criminal record.

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have be...

Starkville Athletic Club sues city for required closing during pandemic Joe Underwood The managers of a Starkville gym are suing the city in federal court, claiming that being required to close during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic violated their constitutional rights. Starkville Athletic Club owner John Underwood and his son, manager and CEO Joe Underwood, filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. They claim the closing is a “taking�...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 14, 2021, U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of five landlords against Attorney General Letitia James (“ AG James”) in the Eastern District of New York ( Chrysafis, v. Act”) on constitutional free speech and due process grounds. While the legislation also halts residential foreclosure proceedings and tax lien sales, the plaintiffs had hoped to enjoin enforcement of the Act’s mora...

A Supreme Court hearing began this week that could seal the future fate of gas pipelines across the United States. It could also change the balance of power between federal and state authorities in a way that federal authorities would hardly like. The case involves the proposed PennEast pipeline, a 120-mile, 1-billion-cu-m piece of infrastructure that will take natural gas from the Marcellus shale across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. New Jersey is opposing the pipeline. PennEast and FERC want t...