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    • The Supreme Court rejected 6-3 a facial challenge to Indiana’s voter ID law, with the majority sharply divided over how to evaluate such challenges....
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  • Ill. S. Ct. rejects preemption of Medicaid spousal recovery
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  • 11th Cir.: Voter groups have standing, but Fla. rule not preempted
    • The Eleventh Circuit held 2-1 that Florida’s voter registration system – which prevents individuals who make typographical errors on their registration forms from being registered to vote – is n...
  • D.D.C.: Clean Water regulation violates APA
    • D.C.’s federal district court rejected standing and ripeness challenges in a suit brought by a polluter under the Clean Water Act (CWA). American Petroleum Institute v. Johnson, --- F.Supp.2d ----,...
  • E.D.Va.: Immunity under Rehabilitation Act rejected (again)
    • A Virginia federal district court rejected the state’s sovereign immunity defense in a prisoner’s Rehabilitation Act lawsuit. Miller v. Johnson, 2008 WL 821652 (E.D. Va. Mar. 27, 2008) (No. 07-4...
  • N.D.Ga.: Waiver by removal in ADA Title I case
    • A Georgia federal district court held that a state agency waived its sovereign immunity when it removed to federal court a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act originally filed in state cou...
  • S.Ct. takes restrictive view of arbitration review
    • The Supreme Court held 6-3 that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not provide for review of an arbitration decision by a district court on the basis that the parties contractually agreed to it. ...
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