SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

Thomas wrote that lower court decisions reflect widespread misunderstandings about the burden-shifting framework, and that its application is producing troubling outcomes on the ground. Escobar is supported by friend of the court briefs filed by the American Bar Association and former state attorneys general and other prosecutors.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too. Dozens of other defense attorneys had similar reactions. Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. But Gibbons told someone.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is among a small group of district attorneys working to dial back decades of tough-on-crime approaches. Statistics on her roughly 100-attorney staff shared with The Imprint show that in 2017, 43 percent were women. Photo by Ashleigh Reddy. That image lives in me,” Becton said.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Three days later, the county’s District Attorney dropped the charges and released her from jail, after a statewide (and nationwide) outcry. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 6, 2024

Supreme Court had misinterpreted California law about the viability of representative actions under the Labor Code’s Private Attorneys General Act when representatives’ individual claims are being arbitrated (see here ). Supreme Court won’t review PAGA arbitration cases. (2023) 14 Cal.5th Catarino (2023) 14 Cal.5th

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Boynton’s victory inspired civil rights activists, known as the Freedom Riders, to travel on interstate buses in the South to test the Supreme Court’s ruling. In June, the court ruled in R.G. & In the decade following the landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Harris Funder Homes v. EEOC that it does.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 10, 2024

United States , the Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald J. The justices remanded the case to the lower courts for further analysis, indicating that the president may be prosecuted for private conduct but not for official acts. The vehicles were then seized under an Alabama civil forfeiture law. .

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” Griffen then appealed and the attorney for the Haunted Hotel quoted Hunter S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. First, he is discussing not the lawsuit that I raised against the attorneys making these claims outside of court. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Such proclamations do better with MSNBC than the DDC (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). Nevertheless, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine garnered widespread acclaim by announcing soon after the Jan. Mike Lee instead of Alabama Sen. Then nothing happened. In Brandenburg v. Racketeering.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A varied career path to the country’s highest court The time that O’Connor had invested in local politics paid off when she decided to return to full-time work in 1965. She spent four years as an assistant state attorney general until she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate after the incumbent stepped down.

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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”. Other States and NRDC Weighed in on States’ Requested Intervention as Defendants in Juliana Case; Plaintiffs Said They Would Not Seek Nominal Damages. In Juliana v. Shell Oil Co. ,

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