Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The decision represents the first 5-to-4 split in a case argued during the Court’s 2020-21 term. In support, justice Sotomayor emphasized that the statute in Your Home did not implicate the presumption in favor of judicial review and was narrower than §231g, which simply incorporates §355(f ) into the RRA. Legal Background. 449 (1999).

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2023

In a nutshell, according to the Italian Constitutional Court, the fundamental human rights cannot be automatically and unconditionally sacrificed in each and every case in order to uphold the jurisdiction immunity of a foreign State allegedly responsible for serious international crimes.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. Despite his past controversial writings, he was selected as the 2019 & 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Award Winner. .” These retraction letters are often the open salvo in defamation actions. The letter notifies Carron J.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

In July 2019, Georgia Southern University (“GSU”) invited Martin to speak at the 2020 International Critical Media Literary Conference. 50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. O.C.G.A. §

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

Kilborn was later informed that he was the subject of an investigation into “allegations of race based discrimination and harassment” for allegedly “creat[ing] a racially hostile environment for … non-white students between January, 2020 and January, 2021, particularly during your Civil Procedure II course.”.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to alleviate burdens caused by the COVID–19 pandemic. The CDC’s moratorium was originally slated to expire on December 31, 2020. It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

Moore argues that unlike other constitutional provisions, the clause does not refer to the state itself, but a particular institution of government. Last November, the North Carolina legislature enacted a new map for congressional elections in response to the 2020 U.S. Census data. We should know Monday.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

We recently discussed a federal court upholding the Georgia election law as constitutional, rejecting challenges based on voter suppression by a group associated with Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Now, the Delaware Supreme Court has rejected a Democratic universal mail-in voting law as unconstitutional.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

Borrowers with eligible federal student loans who had an income below $125,000 in either 2020 or 2021 qualified for a loan balance discharge of up to $10,000. The post Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Judge Truncale gives a detailed account of how the prosecutors were “repulsed” by the sexualization of children in the movie, which began streaming Cuties on September 9, 2020. Therefore, her nudity cannot constitute child pornography. However, the court highlighted deep flaws in the prosecutorial case. 3d 874, 880 (5th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In 2020, the city triggered a controversial appeal in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. The law barred the transfer of unloaded and locked firearms from one’s residence to anywhere other than a small number of designated shooting ranges within the city. City of New York.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

They have asked for the dismissal of the indictment for lack of jurisdiction since the Court ruled in Dobbs that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” The court came to this question by a rather circuitous route. That included 21 of the 27 ratifying states.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The Court expressly stated that it was not ruling on this question in its 2020 decision in Bostock v. 1731 (2020). On the Title IX issue, the court held that the statute allows schools to provide separate bathrooms on the basis of biological sex. 1731 (2020). Clayton County , 140 S. 1681 et seq. Adams ex rel.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Supreme Court will return to the bench on October 4, 2021, and conduct oral arguments in person for the first time since March 2020. The post Previewing the US Supreme Court’s October Sitting appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. We will be closely following these cases, as well as the others on the Court’s docket.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2022

1731 (2020) where the Court held that “[w]hen an employer fires an employee for being homosexual or transgender, it necessarily and intentionally discriminates against that individual in part because of sex” under Title VII. The Eighth Circuit rejected the appeal. One of the critical factors in the litigation was Bostock v.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 4, 2025

This restrictive turn mirrors the trajectory of human rights litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). [22] 8] Charlene Sun and Aloysius Llamzon, Acta Iure Gestionis and Acta Iure Imperii ( Oxford Constitutions – Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL] ) <[link] accessed 30 April 2025. [9]

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

3, 2020), [link]. Saying that the casting rule was “integral” to the vision of the creators, VanDyke noted that “[h]ad some anti-discrimination statute been applied to Hamilton forcibly to include white actors the show simply would not be able to express the message it desired.”. 31, 2016, 12:30 PM), [link].

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2022

Notably, both were crafted by Democrats, during the 1993 confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg , then, during the 2020 confirmation of her replacement, Amy Coney Barrett. While there are a couple of longer trial decisions, most of Jackson’s record does not clearly establish her interpretative approach to the Constitution or statutes.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law. 9, another remedial statute is at risk. In Haaland v. One question is almost guaranteed to come up at the Dec.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct. Forty-nine years before the leaked opinion in Dobbs v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Moreover, publications are protected in most states by retraction statutes limiting or blocking damages for corrected stories. Palin won an important pretrial challenge in her lawsuit against The Times in 2020. Finally, opinion is already protected from defamation actions.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2022

For those with memories extending back to 2020, there were turns that were enough to snap your neck. It was clear from the outset that Jackson would not discuss her judicial philosophy on interpreting the Constitution or statutes — the very issue Democratic senators cited in voting against Barrett in 2020.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2025

Instead, the law directs the task force to make that determination, and it requires its recommendations to be independent, and to the extent practicable, not subject to political pressure. Should the Supreme Court, Gorsuch asked, send the case back to the lower court for it to make that ruling in the first place?

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “[t]he CVA effectively strips defendants of any timeliness defense so long as the conduct over which they are sued constitutes a sexual offense under Article 130 or violations of other enumerated statutes. 88476, 2020 WL 856432, at *4 (N.Y. 21, 2020); ARK3 Doe v. 900010/2019, 2020 N.Y. May 11, 2020).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2025

The various inspector generals were also terminated and, at the time, some of us raised concerns over compliance with underlying federal statutes. Judge Jackson held that the firing clearly violated the controlling statute and that the Act itself was constitutional. In 2020, the Court ruled in Seila Law LLC v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

In 2020, Judge Cannon was confirmed in a bipartisan vote, with the support of liberals such as Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) These critics often stress that she is an appointee of Trump, even though many Trump appointees have ruled against the former president on 2020 election issues. and Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, McVay noted that “Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statutes lists the people who ‘may enter any polling room or polling place’… Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list.” The Trump Justice Department sent monitors to some polling places in 2020.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

Premier Nutrition Corporation Judge Bade / Ninth Circuit / June 17, 2020 Case Overview The case revolves around Sonner’s attempt to secure equitable restitution under Californias Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) in a federal court sitting in diversity. 2 Sonner v. 4 United States v.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Their core criticism against judicial elections is that elected judges are incentivized to avoid issuing unpopular, counter majoritarian decisions in constitutional law cases and thus fail to safeguard minority rights against abuses of the majority. A Conversation on the ABA Accreditation of Texas Law Schools. 2025 May 7.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration returned to ask for an injunction from the same justices a few weeks later and for a ruling on the statute. Louisiana (2020) (a non-abortion case) that the court cannot maintain a precedent that is “grievously or egregiously wrong.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It seeks an order from the court to “permanently enjoin” the defendants from violating said laws again despite the fact that they are now private citizens. It also seeks nominal, compensatory, consequential, and punitive damages; and attorneys’ fees and costs. That was the concern that led the Supreme Court to curtail defamation actions.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

The week before, it sought to dismiss a Black Lives Matter lawsuit over the clearing of Lafayette Park during a June 2020 protest. While I disagree with the treatment of any such statements as part of a president’s official duties, I stated at the time that there was support for the position in the governing federal statute and case law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. The court further found that EPCA’s legislative history did not support the plaintiff’s “expansive interpretation.”

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