Sentences with phrase «pending cases challenging»

The US Supreme Court has ruled on the first of three pending cases challenging the Honest Services statute under which former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was convicted back in December.

Not exact matches

These drug pricing discrepancies could become even more important depending on the outcome of the pending Supreme Court case King vs. Burwell, which challenges the legitimacy of federal health - care subsidies and could leave as many as 8 million Americans without subsidies and uninsured in 2016.

The outcomes of the court battles have so far been a mixed bag: Teachers challenging VAM have scored some wins, lost other big cases, and a few major suits are still pending.

Since Rodriguez, legal challenges have been brought in 44 states, and currently cases are pending in various stages of litigation in as many as 15 states.20

And if all of this is not enough to make the case significant, it also may reveal the justices» views on presidential power and immigration that could be relevant to other issues pending in the lower courts, such as President Trump's repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the challenges to President Trump's threatening to withhold federal funds from cities and states that do not cooperate with immigration officials.

He recently represented the Retirement Plan for Chicago Transit Authority Employees in the Supreme Court of Illinois in the Matthews case, which challenged the constitutionality, under the Illinois State Constitution, of the CTA's pension reform agreement with its unions (decision pending).

It concluded that the challenging party's due process rights were violated because the appellate judge did not recuse himself after the opposing side contributed $ 3 million to his campaign while the case was pending.

The plaintiff in the challenge had been issued patents in the late 1970s based on an application from 1959, but on the eve of jury trial in 1982, the case had been continued pending a reexamination under the new statute.

The immediate effect of the Court's decision will be to return to the board an estimated 75 to 80 cases pending in the lower courts that are challenging the legitimacy of two - member board decisions.

A notice of peremptory challenge of judge shall be filed in writing with the clerk of the court in which the case is pending and a copy served on the opposing party.

1979)-RRB- explaining why Judge Wyzanski was declining his proposed nomination to the First Circuit (by chance, when I was in the practice of law I had the privilege of arguing a case that successfully challenged, in First Amendment terms, the Northern District of Illinois» rule that impermissibly limited lawyers» ability to comment on pending litigation — and Judge Wyzanski was a member of the panel, sitting by invitation in the Seventh Circuit).

Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Gregory F. Ostfeld, among others, prepared the amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League filed in March 2015 in the four cases then pending before the Supreme Court: Obergefell v. Hodges, Tanco v. Haslam, DeBoer v. Snyder, and Bourke v. Beshear, which challenge the constitutionality of state marriage equality bans.

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