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Woman speeding away from cops runs red light and crashes, ejecting man from her vehicle and flipping it over: Police
Background: The intersection of South 24th Street and Garland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky (Google Maps). Inset: Jhonna'Kaye Parra (Louisville Metro Government). A woman in Kentucky is accused of running a red light while racing away from police, allegedly causing...
California Climate Disclosure Laws – OCC Challenges Application to Federally Chartered Banks—but November 10 Reporting Deadline Remains
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the federal regulator of national banks and federal savings associations, has challenged the application of California’s climate disclosure laws to those institutions, citing interference with federal banking...
SSRN: Cowan & Cutler Post “Cold-Blooded Corporate Charity: Policy Pitfalls of the Big Beautiful Floor”
Mark Cowan (Bosie State) and Joshua Cutler (Boise State) have posted a paper on the OBBBA’s one percent floor on corporate charitable deductions. You can read a draft on SSRN. From the abstract: “For ninety years, the federal tax law stayed...
Morning Docket: 11.04.26
* Midterm elections will force White House to rethink caliber of judicial nominees. Or just ram a bunch through before January and then leave vacancies for the next two years. [Law360] * Democrats will now have the power to dig into Biglaw’s deals with Trump....
The FTC Is Flexing Its Muscle In Healthcare
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Court hears argument in religious discrimination dispute
Justice Thomas Johnson was born on this day in 1732. As we noted in a Closer Look about Johnson in July, he has the distinction of holding the third-shortest tenure of any associate justice in Supreme Court history.At the CourtOn Tuesday, the justices heard argument...
Mootness, maps, and motor vehicles
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.After two weeks without a conference, the justices return Friday to a relist lineup with a distinctly...
Justices to consider compensation standard for eminent domain on interstate pipelines
The argument next week in Hoffman v WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. should give the justices a break from the back-and-forth sniping in high-profile stay applications of the last several weeks as they consider a lower-stakes problem of statutory interpretation under the...
FCA PS26/22 ‘ESG ratings: final regime’
On 3 November 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Statement 26/22 ‘ESG ratings: final regime’ (PS26/22).BackgroundOn 1 December 2025, the FCA published Consultation Paper 25/34 (CP25/34) on its proposed approach to Environmental,...