EU Magistrate Says Venezuela Can Sue Bloc Over Sanctions
Venezuela can contest economic sanctions before the European Union’s highest court, a magistrate for the court said Wednesday.
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Green Light Law
The clerk of Erie County, New York, did not have Article III standing to bring his suit challenging the state’s “Green Light Law,” a federal court in the state ruled. The law directs the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles to accept foreign documents as proof of identification for standard licenses and prohibits the department from asking about the immigration status of license applications.
Read moreReceipts
A customer who used his credit card at a Godiva store lacked standing to bring a class action against the chocolate company because he failed to allege that the store’s statutory violation of printing too many credit card digits on receipts caused him direct harm, the Eleventh Circuit ruled.
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Opponent of Conversion-Therapy Ban Faces Uphill Battle at Fourth Circuit
An advocate for so-called gay conversion therapy could lose his challenge to Maryland’s ban on the practice because he lacks standing to sue, appellate judges indicated at a Fourth Circuit hearing Monday afternoon.
Read moreVoter Registration
A Texas appeals court ruled that the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group based in Indiana, and a Harris County voter lack standing to obtain mandamus relief on their claims that the county’s voter registrar is failing to perform her duty to “reject and challenge all voter registration applications that do not contain a ‘YES’ answer to the question ‘Are you a United States citizen?’”
Read moreWisconsin Voting
The Seventh Circuit dismissed an appeal by the Wisconsin legislature and Republican Party challenging the extension of the voter registration deadline for the 2020 election due to the pandemic. Neither party has standing to pursue an appeal because they have not shown any injury as a result of the deadline extension.
Read moreRideshare for Wheelchair Users
Two individuals who sued Uber for not providing a wheelchair-accessible ride-sharing option in New Orleans have Article III standing to pursue their case and are not subject to an arbitration clause in the app’s terms and conditions, the Ninth Circuit ruled. Uber claimed the plaintiffs consciously avoided downloading the app and signing its terms and conditions but downloading the app and creating an account would have been a “futile gesture” for them.
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Virginia Judge Grants New Injunction Against Removal of Confederate Statue
A monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee will stay standing in Virginia’s capital for at least another 90 days thanks to a new injunction issued Monday morning by a state judge.
Read moreCondom Trademark
The Federal Circuit found that an Australian company has standing to seek the cancellation of an American company’s “Naked” trademark for condoms.
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Judge Denies Oregon’s Request to Halt Federal Agents in Portland
A federal judge on Friday denied the Oregon attorney general’s request to stop federal agents from arresting Portland protesters, as nightly protests against police violence continue in the state’s largest city.
Read morePollution Policy
Environmental advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council lacks standing to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s Covid-19 policy to not penalize businesses that fail to comply with pollution monitoring requirements because of the pandemic, a federal court in New York ruled.
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EU Magistrate Backs Challenges to Cross-Border Tax Disclosures
Residents of European Union member states can contest the release of their personal financial information as part of an exchange of data between tax authorities in different countries, an adviser to the EU’s highest court said Thursday.
Read moreHazardous Waste
A federal court in California ruled that a resident of the Marina district in San Francisco may pursue his claim under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act against Pacific Gas and Electric relating to hazardous waste left in the area by the company’s plants 100 years ago. The man has standing to sue based on his “recreational and aesthetic interests.”
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Super-Rich on California Beachfront Lose Campaign to Stop Coastal Access by Public
A pristine stretch of California coast is controlled by a super-rich set with showpiece cars and 100-acre-minimum estates. While aggressively stopping any outsider that get close to long stretch of pristine coves and beaches, the “ranch” owners have managed to also engineer a tax break. But all that looks about to change.
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Christian Baker Asks Judge to Toss Suit Over Unbaked Transgender Birthday Cake
Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop says a transgender woman jumped the gun by suing over its refusal to make a cake to commemorate her transition.
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Judge Nixes State Challenge to 2-for-1 Deregulation Push
The Trump administration’s two-for-one deregulation order survived a legal challenge Thursday by states that said it threatened a greenhouse gas rules and an education program for low-income children, to name a few.
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Louisiana Abortion Restrictions Light Up Divided Supreme Court
On the conservative side of a divide shaping the Supreme Court’s first abortion case of the Trump era, Justice Samuel Alito appeared wary Wednesday of letting a clinic challenge Louisiana rules that affect its doctors.
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Iowa Court Tosses Challenges to Judicial Nominating Law
The Iowa Court of Appeals handed down two rulings Wednesday dismissing lawsuits over changes in the way state appellate judges are picked, finding the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge lawmakers’ actions.
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DC Circuit Guts Trump Emoluments Suit Over Lawmaker Standing
The D.C. Circuit on Friday overturned a ruling that said members of Congress had standing to sue President Donald Trump under a clause in the Constitution that prohibits the president from accepting gifts from foreign countries
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