Elephants cannot sue to get out of the zoo, Colorado's top court rules
Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no ...
Democracy in Focus: New York State Court of Appeals Year in Review
Harry Black, staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative, reviews decisions from the the New York Court of ...
N.J. prepares to sue again over N.Y.C. congestion pricing after seeking to drop appeal of federal ruling
New Jersey is seeking to drop it appeal of a congestion pricing ruling as part of a plan to file a new lawsuit.
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Reject Limit on Excessive-Force Suits
The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment ...
Court of Appeals Provides Comfort to Land Use Litigants Through the Relation Back Doctrine
In his Zoning and Land Use column, John Armentano discusses the Court of Appeals decision in ‘Nemeth v. K-Tooling,’ which gives litigants, especially land use litigants, some additional “breathing ...
Appeals Court Rules Obama-Era Immigration Program Is Unlawful
But the judges stayed their ruling and for now, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients will continue to have protection ...
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2nd Circuit New York Employers Must Provide Notice Under Reproductive Health Bias Law After Second Circuit Ruling
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month vacated a lower court’s permanent injunction that had prevented the ...
Judgment in Trump's New York fraud case stands at $502 million ahead of inauguration
President-elect Donald Trump will likely owe the state of New York about half a billion dollars when he's sworn in as ...
NYS appeals court sets hearing on Shinnecock effort to keep billboards operating
In addition, tribal leaders are angered by a Town of Southampton lawsuit seeking to block a tribal gas station on land ...
Oklahoma's only woman on death row says prosecutors sex shamed her; US Supreme Court orders review
U.S. Supreme Court ordered 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take up Brenda Andrew's complaints about her trial again.
Billionaire Leon Black defeats defamation claim by Russian model who accused him of rape
A court said Guzel Ganieva’s October 2015 nondisclosure agreement covered all her claims against Black, including that he ...
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Appeals court rules DACA, Obama-era immigration policy, is unlawful
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump ...