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Restitution, medical malpractice, and a capital appeal

SCOTUSBlog

The court granted review of one of last weeks new relists raising a double jeopardy question about a federal sentencing enhancement for using a firearm during a violent crime. Grants are now filling in the 2025-26 term, which will start in October.)

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SCOTUS Makes Unanimous Ruling in Hungary v. Simon

Constitutional Law Reporter

Simon , 604 U.S. _ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that alleging commingling of funds alone cannot satisfy the commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). The Courts decision was unanimous. Supreme Courts Decision The Supreme Court disagreed.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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]

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Divided By Principle: How Justices Barrett And Jackson Are Shaping The Future Of Constitutional Law

Above The Law

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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Comparing Recent Federal Circuit Judges

Above The Law

Biden appointed the most judges to the Second Circuit in 2021, to the Ninth in 2022, and even had one judge begin active service in 2025 ( Embry Kidd in the Eleventh Circuit). Decision The Ninth Circuit reversed the district courts decision to dismiss the Unruh Act claim, ruling that the federal court should have kept jurisdiction over it.

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Circuit Scoop — February 2025

Above The Law

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant.

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Judge Told Trump And Musk To Follow The Law For A Week. They’re Calling It Tyranny.

Above The Law

citizens to anyone who has not “passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations” and ordered any such person who has already copied that data to delete it pending the full hearing on February 14. It’s Q.E.D.

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