Source: https://federalcourt.press/featured-petitions
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 12:58:05+00:00

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Wayne Anderson v. Ashton Carter, Secretary of Defense et al.
Mark Sheriff / Eric Jones et al. v. Pamela Gillie et al.
In 2011, as a cure for a severely underfunded pension system, the New Jersey Legislature enacted amendments to N.J.S.A. 43:3C-9.5 which increased both State and employee contributions for a period of seven years in order to restore the pension system to a fiscally sound level. The language of the amendments clearly states that these pension contributions were contractual obligations of the State .
Richard Baumgartner was convicted of the federal misprision statute for providing positive character references on behalf of a drug user. Mr. Baumgartner challenges this conviction on First Amendment grounds and argues that his speech to a another person has no concealing affect, since it was not with law enforcement, and did not happen in the context of a criminal investigation.
Robert Schuller et al v. Crystal Cathedral Ministries et al.
Dharma Agrawal v. University of Cincinnati et al.
Has the federal system quietly barred the courts to employment discrimination claims? Given the growing number of Supreme Court petitions addressing this question, the canary in the coalmine may already have been dead for quite a while. This petition argues that the Sixth Circuit has built a summary judgment firewall that is not permitting cases with genuine issues of fact to go to the jury.
Wanda Dry v. Christi Lenay Steel et al.
They say that neither snow, nor rain can stop the US Postal Service from delivery. However, what happens when something is mailed to a deceased person? What if that item is an all-critical legal notice that is meant to be served upon living heirs and representives of the deceased person? The case of McClure Dry v. Steele et al., No. 14-180, asks this very question.
Supervised release conditions are often contained on a "check the box" form where a judge can tick off the conditions applicable to an offense. However, when such a check box item becomes artfully interpreted by a zealous probation officer Josepha Remon, it can lead to absurd consequences as it did for petitioner Kyle McClamma.
Social media is everywhere - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, Linked In - humans are social creatures and they want to be connected. But what about judges, or as in this case, justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court? Is it appropriate for them to Facebook friend the defendant in this case and not recuse themself?

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