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- Details about a former Saudi official who was targeted by Mohammed bin Salman’s “Tiger Squad” and a court ruling on immunity.
- A case involving Correct the Record’s coordination with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and a decision by the D.C. Circuit.
- The Third Circuit’s thoughts on collusion to evade the Speedy Trial Act.
- Debating whether college athletes should be treated as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- A ruling by the Third Circuit on excessive bail conditions.
- A case involving Google providing location data to solve a bank robbery, as analyzed by the Fourth Circuit.
- The Fifth Circuit’s take on the NLRB’s actions on remand.
- A woman’s claim against sheriff’s deputies in Houston and a ruling by the Fifth Circuit.
- The constitutionality of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020, as determined by the Fifth Circuit.
- Plaintiffs’ allegations of police brutality during George Floyd protests in Dallas, dissected by the Fifth Circuit.
Rephrased:
1. The plaintiffs claimed they were peacefully protesting when they were violently attacked by an officer who had a history of brutalizing residents without facing consequences.
2. An Illinois inmate wanted to buy a loofah but was told he needed to change his gender identity to do so, leading to a lawsuit for equal protection.
3. A panel of the Eighth Circuit highlighted the need to carefully consider legislative judgments regarding excessive fines under the Eighth Amendment.
4. Retired federal agents facing allegations of misconduct against a neurologist prompt a debate on constitutional violations in the Ninth Circuit.
5. A Tenth Circuit case questions whether a sheriff’s office is liable when the sheriff himself sexually assaults a prisoner.
6. A Colorado woman and her mother plead guilty to mail fraud for selling body parts from a funeral home, leading to sentencing enhancements.
7. The Chief of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol sued for a property interest in his old job after being forced to retire, but the case was dismissed.
8. The Eleventh Circuit upholds the denial of an insurance claim for a father who died while mountain climbing in Pakistan.
9. An advocacy group challenges Georgia’s campaign-finance laws, but the case is dismissed due to Younger abstention.
10. A Georgia inmate’s lack of anti-seizure medication leads to brain damage, sparking debate on Eighth Amendment violations in the Eleventh Circuit. Not all students were aware that they were being scammed when they paid for classes and are now seeking refunds. The Claims Court stated that the government cannot be sued as it was acting as a sovereign entity. However, the Federal Circuit argued that the government waived its sovereign immunity by accepting money in exchange for educational services.
In a case in the Northern District of Texas, it was explained that the federal ban on recreational home distilling is not a valid exercise of taxing power as it simply prohibits the activity without imposing any taxes.
Following several court opinions and a certified question to the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Middle District of Louisiana found that a police officer lacked evidence to sue a protest organizer for a head wound suffered during a protest in 2016.
The Seventh Circuit will reconsider its decision regarding two prison officials keeping a Wisconsin man on probation beyond the statutory maximum, leading to jail time. The Ninth Circuit upheld that private prisons operating under a profit system do not violate constitutional clauses.
The Eleventh Circuit will not reconsider its decision on Georgia’s Public Service Commission elections, despite dissent. In California, a court ruling turned a preliminary injunction into a permanent one, preventing state officials from enforcing private investigator licensing laws against individuals like Jay Fink who help combat deceptive spam emails.
For more information on the California case, click here. Please rewrite this sentence.
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