Civil Rights
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President Donald Trump is still blocking certain Twitter users in violation of their First Amendment rights and in contravention of a Second Circuit ruling, according to a new suit filed Friday by a free speech nonprofit and several of the blocked users… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of attorneys specializing in legal ethics told the Fifth Circuit on Friday that a requirement that lawyers pay dues to the State Bar of Texas doesn’t violate their rights, pushing back against a challenge that was recently backed by the Lone Star State’s attorney general… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Donald Trump asked a D.C. federal court Wednesday to order an emergency block on the publication of a highly anticipated memoir by former national security adviser John Bolton, saying the book contains classified information whose disclosure could damage national security… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Dechert LLP told employees Friday that they will be given time off on June 19 in commemoration of the Juneteenth holiday, which celebrates the end of institutionalized slavery in the United States… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Fifth Circuit on Thursday upended a district court order won by Texas Democrats that directed the Lone Star State to allow all voters to use mail-in ballots, with the appeals panel saying the lower court’s decision “will be remembered more for audacity than legal reasoning”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 