Religion & Law

First Circuit rejects First Amendment challenge to Concord, New Hampshire's ban on electronic billboards
First Circuit rejects First Amendment challenge to Concord, New Hampshire's ban on electronic billboards: You can access today's ruling at this link.

Second Circuit rejects antitrust challenge against the exclusive licensing agent for Major League Baseball clubs' intellectual property
Second Circuit rejects antitrust challenge against the exclusive licensing agent for Major League Baseball clubs' intellectual property: You can access today's ruling by a three-judge, all female panel of the U...

Sixth Circuit Rejects Daubert Challenge and Affirms Class Certification
In In re Scrap Metal Antitrust Litig., No. 06-4511, 2008 WL 2050820 (6th Cir. May 15, 2008), the Sixth Circuit affirmed the $20 million jury verdict.  The Sixth Circuit rejected defendants’ Daubert challenge premised on the claim that plaintiffs’ expert relied on unreliable data...

Ninth Circuit rejects facial constitutional challenge to Legal Arizona Workers Act, a state law that targets employers who hire illegal aliens and sanctions such employers with the revocation of their licenses to do business in Arizona
Ninth Circuit rejects facial constitutional challenge to Legal Arizona Workers Act, a state law that targets employers who hire illegal aliens and sanctions such employers with the revocation of their licenses to do business in Arizona: You can access today's ruling of the U...

2d Circuit Rejects Retroactivity Challenge to § 469 Passive Loss Rules
The Second Circuit on Thursday rejected a taxpayer's constitutional challenge to the § 469 passive loss rules on retroactivity grounds. Ziegler v. Commissioner, No. 07-4206-ag (2d Cir...

First Circuit panel rejects constitutional challenge to the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy
First Circuit panel rejects constitutional challenge to the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy: You can access today's ruling at this link. The majority opinion observes, "we are persuaded that Lawrence did indeed recognize a protected liberty interest for adults to engage in private, consensual sexual intimacy and applied a balancing of constitutional interests that defies either the strict scrutiny or rational basis label...

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