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Showing posts with label separation of powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label separation of powers. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Court rejects 'super tort' theory in suit alleging animal cruelty, though concurrence mentions rights of nature

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Kodiak bear at Olympic Game Farm, a private zoo in Washington. Analise Zocher via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Animal Legal Defense Fund tried but ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Libro estudia poder de corte constitucional ecuatoriana

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El abogado Ugo Stornaiolo Silva ha publicado un libro, Jueces Como Soberanos: Una Exploración Jurídico-Política del Poder Supremo de la Cor...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Israeli law profs raise alarm over judicial reforms

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Proposed judicial reforms in Israel have set off a firestorm with critical characterizations comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wit...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Legislative privilege shields Raimondo records against trucker subpoena in dormant Commerce Clause case

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Toll gantry on a bridge in Washington ( Flickr by Wash. State DOT CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) The First Circuit has quashed a subpoena against Rhod...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Emergency orders survive constitutional scrutiny; Mass. Court cites Korean War, smallpox cases

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled Thursday that pandemic emergency orders of the Commonwealth Governor were valid under t...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

'Super tort' might represent failure of public policymaking, but is only tip of melting iceberg

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First Circuit remands R.I. suit against Big Oil for public nuisance Super Tort ( px her e.com CC0 ) A "super tort" sounds delicio...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Talk traces 'nuisance' from King Henry I to COVID-19

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Yesterday I had the privilege to present in a lecture series (virtually) at Jagiellonian University (UJ) on the tort of nuisance in Amer...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Legal attacks on lockdown mount; R.I. Governor's time will run out, report warns

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Persons entering Rhode Island remain subject to 14-day quarantine in the present phase 1 of reopening. Photo by Taber Andrew Bain CC...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Amid pandemic, ballot access restrictions yield to right to run for office, state supreme court rules

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Because of the coronavirus pandemic, political candidates will have to produce only half the usual number of voter signatures to see their n...