SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

James Garfield Broadnax, who is Black, was convicted of murdering two people, both of whom were white, by a nearly all-white jury in Texas. The prosecution struck all seven Black prospective jurors, though the trial court then restored one to the jury panel. CVSG: 5/7/2024 (rescheduled before the Dec. Florida and Moore v.

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2025

A federal judge in Texas vacated a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulation on Tuesday. The ruling by Judge Mark Pittman, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of Texas, removes many previous caps from credit card late fees.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The justices also agreed to take up the case of a Texas inmate seeking federal post-conviction relief. Both the federal government (which had joined the cases to defend the constitutionality of the PSJVTA) and the victims came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up the question.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. relisted after the May 23, 2024 conference) Delligatti v. relisted after the May 23, 2024 conference) Granier v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In a brief unsigned order , the justices put on hold an order by a federal trial judge in Texas that would have barred the government from enforcing the law anywhere in the United States. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the courts decision to temporarily block the lower courts ruling.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

The case was the only addition to the justices’ docket for their 2024-25 term. Instead, they contended, he supplied the guns that his fellow gang members used to commit the crimes, and under a Texas law known as the “law of parties” he could face the same punishment that the shooters faced: death.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

4] Canadas statute is an updated version of what have been called constituency statutes in the United States, which explicitly expand the fiduciary duties of corporate managers and directors beyond shareholders but do not usually include the environment among allowable factors, except in Arizona and Texas. [5] 12, 2024, [link].

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Supreme Court takes the bench in Trump v. Anderson, about whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in excluding former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. Tillman filed an amicus brief in support of Trump with Professor Josh Blackman of South Texas College of Law Houston.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

The two graphs below track the Justices word counts across all argument in the 2023/2024 Term and those already completed in this 2024/2025 Term. The remainder of this piece proceeds by breaking down and comparing their argument styles across eight oral arguments, four from the 2023/2024 Term and four from the 2024/2025 Term.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

When the justices meet for their next regularly scheduled conference today, they will discuss what might become the final petitions granted for oral argument during the 2024 Term. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas. An association of private, for-profit colleges in Texas went to federal court to challenge that regulation.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

This happened in five other cases making six of the 30 total 5-4 decisions between OT 2020 and OT 2023 or 20% of the time. Texas, Becerra v. Arkansas Teachers Retirement System making for one case in 2020, two in 2021, two in 2022, and one in 2023 showing no great increase over her time on the Court. Texas (2021) and Ohio v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

27, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court decision that allowed Trump to appear on the state’s primary ballot. As in Minnesota, the lower court’s ruling does not foreclose a new challenge to Trump’s appearance on the general election ballot. And on Dec.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

Law Firm Following Court Approval. after a court decision made it the first Big Four accounting firm eligible to practice law in the country. The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday granted the accounting giant final approval to obtain a license to create its own firm, KPMG Law. Read more here (gift link). #2

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