SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

Areli Escobar was convicted in a Texas state court of the sexual assault and murder of Biana Maldonado Hernandez and sentenced to death. The trial court recommended vacating the conviction due to a reasonable likelihood that the flawed DNA evidence affected the jurys decision.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted an en banc rehearing Wednesday to Texas in the state’s dispute with the federal government over a barrier meant to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande, vacating the court’s previous judgment. The administration alleged that Texas violated 33 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit threw out that ruling in February 2024.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over whether a Texas man on death row has a legal right to sue, known as standing, to bring federal civil rights claims challenging the constitutionality of the Texas laws governing DNA testing. The justices agreed in October 2024 to take up his case.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In October, the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction. Oklahoma Federal Court Allowed Landowner to Proceed with NEPA Challenge of Osage Nation Oil and Gas Leases. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, Texas recently declared that it was acting unilaterally under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution. No state faces a greater danger than Texas. The southern border in 2024 is, constitutionally, suffering no more an “invasion” than the Capitol riot in 2021 was an “insurrection.”

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Biden administration’s request to be allowed to temporarily enforce most of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding, while its appeals continued.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Friday invalidated a Mississippi election law that allowed mail-in and absentee election ballots as long as they were sent on or before Election Day. The ruling overturned the lower court’s decision that upheld the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

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. That prompted then-U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 2, 2025

The courts ruling reveals a deliberate three-part strategy by Apple: First, design a system that would appear compliant while actually maintaining their monopoly. The Court later concluded that delay equaled profits. By September 30, 2024, Apple represented that it had produced around 89,000 documents out of the 1.5

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows appealed a court ruling Friday that delayed a judgment on whether the removal of former president Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot was valid under the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a legislative subpoena cannot interfere with an execution scheduled by the judiciary, emphasizing the importance of separation of powers. The post Texas Supreme Court rejects legislative attempt to halt execution over shaken baby syndrome appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In overturning Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Share The justices on Monday added four new cases, involving the venue for challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s actions under the Clean Air Act and federal sentencing law, to its docket for the 2024-25 term. Town of Southold, N.Y. , The cases granted on Monday will likely be argued in late February or March.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2023, a Texas woman pleaded guilty to a charge of making threats against US District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the Florida classified documents case. Engoron alleged in 2024 that the threats have continued.

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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. Student-loan forgiveness Another 5th Circuit ruling led to the governments petition in Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As in Minnesota, the lower court’s ruling does not foreclose a new challenge to Trump’s appearance on the general election ballot. The case now before the Supreme Court was the first one to hold that Trump was disqualified from appearing on the ballot in 2024. In a ruling on Dec.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

It looked very different as the Supreme Court, with a strong conservative majority, defended the rights of defendants and upheld core principles that are being systematically gutted in New York. However, the court denied him the right to have a jury rule on the key issue of whether these prior offenses occurred on different occasions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

In one case, Breyer agreed with the court’s conservative wing to uphold the display; in the other, he sided with the court’s liberals to strike down the display. Perry involved a monument inscribed with the commandments on the grounds of the Texas state capitol. The court left S.B. Van Orden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2025

But although the issue may sound like a technical one, the courts ruling could have real-world implications for U.S. In March 2020, the plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court in Texas. Briefs filed in support of Braidwood downplayed the concerns about the effects of a ruling in Braidwoods favor as overstated.

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