SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. The busy order list was in some ways was a microcosm of the 2020-21 term as a whole.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. Of course this line of research is not ‘recognized’ as a science in our state,” Askey wrote, explaining that she had sidestepped hearings that would have been required to assess the method’s legitimacy.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Just before the Supreme Court begins its new term on the first Monday in October , the court gathers to consider all the hundreds of cert petitions that have built up over the summer. At issue in Oklahoma v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court cleared out some old relists in the last few order lists. The court denied review in Smith v. The court denied review in Smith v. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 29, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Mar. 26 in the battle over access to a drug used in medication abortions, which account for over half of all abortions performed in the United States. It is the first time since the court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. 18 and ends on Mar. In August, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Keesee has been a serial trailblazer. The first African-American commander in the Denver Police Department. Denver’s first female police captain. The first deputy commissioner for equity and inclusion in the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Keesee, who holds a Ph.D. She believes that police cannot create neighborhood safety by themselves.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A person held in state prison can challenge the constitutionality of their criminal conviction in federal court through a legal tool known as a writ of habeas corpus.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will vote to grant the last cases that will be argued this term (barring expedited briefing on some emergency matter). The court earlier asked for the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two new cases , both involving Native Americans, to its docket for this term. United States , the justices agreed to consider whether a prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses can trigger the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause. In Denezpi v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Bankruptcy Court Said California City and Counties Could Not Sue Coal Company for Climate Change Impacts. A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). and non-U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to vacate an order by a district court that reinstated federal grants to address teacher shortages. The respondents included the states of California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Wisconsin.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

The thing that we’ve spent the least relative attention on is this question of how to redirect and redefine policing, so that they do less, and other state- and community-based organizations do more.”. These efforts have also been the focus of recommendations from criminologists, police think tanks and government commissions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Supreme Court. On October 2, the district court granted the companies’ motion to temporarily extend its stay of the remand order until the Supreme Court resolves the application.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is continuing to work through its relisted cases. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit invalidating a system of subsidies for rural and low-income broadband service.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Source: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives. Oregon Supreme Court Said Public Trust Doctrine Did Not Impose Obligation to Protect Resources from Climate Change. A trial court had interpreted the scope more narrowly.) The court therefore declined to expand the doctrine to cover additional resources, including the atmosphere.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 27, 2025

The challenging states went to federal court in Massachusetts in early March, alleging that universities and nonprofits in their states had received grants through the programs, and that the termination of the grants violated the federal law governing administrative agencies. After a hearing on March 10, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the start of the new Term for the Supreme Court. ” Does that make the three liberals justices voting together on the Court the “judicial arm of the Democratic Party”? Here is the column: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said, “It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Courts upcoming conference the second January conference — is ordinarily the justices last opportunity to add new cases to the docket in time for them to review and decide the disputes by the summer recess.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

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. DEA , where the court upheld the DEAs denial of psilocybin use under the Controlled Substances Act.

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Above The Law

MARCH 24, 2025

The memorandum directs the heads of the Justice and Homeland Security Departments to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation against the United States or in matters that come before federal agencies. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule) for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants rested on an erroneous interpretation of the Clean Air Act that barred EPA from considering measures beyond those that apply at and to an individual source.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore drilling and production facility off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, finding that BOEM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Its been a big few days for the Supreme Court working through its backlog of relisted cases. Eau Claire Area School District involved a school districts guidance policy governing counseling transgender children.

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Above The Law

MAY 21, 2025

But in a novel twist, this time he was screaming directly at the Supreme Court for daring to overturn his verdict to afford “special treatment … to certain favored litigants like members of Tren de Aragua.” The ACLU raced into court at 12:34 a.m. Twelve hours later, the plaintiffs asked the court to rule by 1:30 p.m.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. On Monday’s order list, the Supreme Court didn’t do much to clear out the relisted cases. The court denied review of just one of the 15 relisted cases that were then pending: Davis v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

Hawai‘i Federal Court Sent Honolulu’s and Maui’s Climate Cases Back to State Court; Fossil Fuel Companies Appealed. The court rejected three grounds for federal jurisdiction because the Ninth Circuit rejected them in City of Oakland v. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. BP p.l.c. , 3d 895 (9th Cir. BP p.l.c. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

States and Coal Company Sought Review of D.C. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. FEATURED CASE.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

Share Former President Donald Trump loomed large over the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term. The Trump docket Even before the Supreme Court issued its July 1 decision holding that former presidents cannot face criminal liability for their official acts, Trump had already effectively scored a major victory from the justices.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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