US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 March 2018 News
US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 March 2018

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week:

The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions [press release] Thursday on 19 Russian individuals and five entities for their interference in the 2016 US election, and a number of other destructive cyber-attacks.
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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] on Thursday vacated [opinion, PDF] the Department of Labor [official website] Fiduciary Rule by a vote of 2-1.
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The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday voted 407-10 [roll-call, text] to approve HR 4909 [text, PDF], a bill that seeks to increase funding for security and safety in schools.

Titled “STOP School Violence Act of 2018,” the bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act [text, PDF] of 1968 (the Omnibus Act).

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed [complaint] a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday for its “arbitrary detention” of asylum seekers.
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Indiana’s House approved a bill [SB 419 materials] Wednesday that lifts prohibitions that kept those previously protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) [JURIST news archive] program from obtaining professional licenses for dozens of occupations including cosmetology and nursing.
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The US Senate on Tuesday approved the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act [text, PDF], which implements several changes to the laws implemented following the 2008 financial crisis.
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The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday upheld [opinion, PDF] the US Department of Labor (DOL) [official website] fiduciary rule.
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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland [official website] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] that a transgender student must be permitted to use both the restroom and locker room that is “in alignment with their gender identity.”

Max Brennan, the plaintiff in the matter, is a 15-year-old student at the St.

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The Idaho House of Representatives [official website] passed a bill [text, PDF] on Monday requiring the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare [official website] to provide information to women seeking abortions about reversing a medical abortion once it has begun.

The bill is based on a study [text, PDF] in which six pregnant women took mifepristone, a medication used to induce abortions, and four were allegedly able to continue their pregnancies after taking various levels of progesterone.

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The US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Monday granted a summary judgment [opinion text] against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] Administrator Scott Pruitt, ordering the agency to comply with a new disclosure deadline after missing the first statutory deadline.
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THIS DAY @ LAW

First meeting of the US Supreme Court

On February 1, 1790, the Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time. The meeting was held at the Merchants' Exchange Building in New York City, then the national capital. Chief Justice John Jay presided over the first Court with five Associate Justices: James Wilson, John Blair, James Iredell, William Cushing, and John Rutledge. However, due to the limitations of 18th-century transportation technology, the meeting was postponed by Jay until the following day. The first meeting was held primarily to organize the Supreme Court. The Justices did not hear their first actual case, Chrisholm v. Georgia, until 1792.

Sir Edward Coke born

Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and author of law reports and commentaries (including, most famously, Coke on Littleton), was born on February 1, 1552. Learn more about Sir Edward Coke.