Supreme Court Tackles Fraud Among Business Partners, Not Spouses
In upholding the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit opinion, the high court said that liability can be held against a partner of a wrongdoer. The justices said they wanted to clear up lower court “confusion” on the meaning of the bankruptcy code’s exception to discharging debts obtained by actual fraud.
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U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance
Turning away the Wikimedia Foundation's appeal, the justices left in place a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit based on the government's assertion of what is called the state secrets privilege, a legal doctrine that can shut down litigation if disclosure of certain information would damage U.S. national security.
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No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not dissent in Obergefell — and other things ChatGPT gets wrong about the Supreme Court
Be careful who, or what, you get your legal advice from. ChatGPT, the new A.I. chatbot, was asked 50 questions about the Supreme Court. It answered just 22 of them correctly...
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It’s Not Your Imagination — The Supreme Court is Less Efficient
The fact that it took over a month longer to release the first opinion this term than it has ever taken in the past shows just how slow the Court is currently moving. Whether impacted by internal or external events or procedures, or just a less efficient process, these cumulative measures do not bode well for the productivity of the Court in the near future.
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The upshot of Curley’s report: While investigators homed in on several suspects, she could not determine by a preponderance of the evidence who shared the landmark opinion with POLITICO seven weeks before its official release.
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Donors leveraged relatively small sums of cash into privileged face time with the very Supreme Court justices who were in some instances deciding cases to which their companies or affiliated advocacy organizations were parties.
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Swim, dive push for reinstatement after SCOTUS rejects Michigan State's appeal
Early in the pandemic, several colleges, big and small, all over the country eliminated hundreds of programs amid financial uncertainty. Several of those teams were reinstated once the financial outlook began to improve, including Iowa's women's swimming and diving team -- a decision that Michigan State supporters hoped would lead to their own salvation, but that hasn't happened.
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The combination of two elements—(1) a ban based not on a characteristic of the product, but rather on an aspect of the production process, and (2) relying on moral disapproval, rather than more traditional and tangible concerns, such as promoting the health and safety of residents or protecting the local environment—makes National Pork a potentially far-reaching case.
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One likely consequence of the protests is that live video streaming of oral arguments is ever-more unlikely. The justices have long been wary of how live broadcast could alter the incentives of advocates and judges at oral argument in ways that encourage style over substance.
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The Onion tells the Supreme Court – seriously – that satire is no laughing matter.
The Onion – a publication best known for its tongue-in-cheek, satirical postings on politics and world events – has taken the very serious step of filing an amicus brief before the Supreme Court.
“Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government? This was a surprise to America’s Finest News Source and an uncomfortable learning experience for its editorial team,” the site’s lawyers wrote.
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