The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar? Earlier this month , the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s request to allow it to use a congressional map in the 2024 elections that a lower court had concluded likely violates the Voting Rights Act. In June of this year, a divided Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision in favor of the challengers.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation filed a complaint in US federal court Wednesday against the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, accusing the city of violating tribal sovereignty by writing tickets to tribal members for traffic violations committed within reservation boundaries. City of Tulsa.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Supreme Court allowed Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting map that includes only one district with a majority of Black voters. While a lower court agreed with challengers that the map constitutes illegal racial gerrymandering, the Supreme Court granted a stay, effectively putting the order on hold.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision on Wednesday, which found that the Senate congressional map did not violate the state’s constitution. Several Missouri citizens previously challenged the map, drawn by a court-appointed redistricting commission, for failing to preserve communities of interest.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court issued a stay order Wednesday blocking a lower court decision that would have prevented using a newly drawn Louisiana congressional district map that includes two majority black districts in the six-district state. For reference, the election that warranted court action in Purcell was only five weeks away.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In reaching its decision, the Court confirmed that the Voting Rights Act prohibits discriminatory effects, not just discriminatory intent.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. That decision distinguishes between types of gambling that a state prohibits outright and types of gambling that a state tolerates subject to regulation. The success of that facility led to proliferation of the business model.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Under the Supreme Court decision Allen v. In that case, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that it did not have the authority to overturn redistricting maps, as it would violate the separation of powers. The rights groups say that the North Carolina legislature did not include these criteria when redistricting the state.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

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Law 360

APRIL 22, 2021

An ex-manager at an Alabama state pension fund urged the Eleventh Circuit to grant a full-panel rehearing of her gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, claiming the judges who affirmed the lower court's decision to dismiss the case broke with court precedent.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2021

The Colorado Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a proposal that would fix a decades-old legal standard that has made it easy for attorneys to exclude people of color, especially African Americans, from serving on juries, reports the Colorado Sun. The 1986 U.S.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. The District Court concluded that factual disputes related to venue should be resolved by the jury and denied Smith’s motion to dismiss without prejudice.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 16, 2023

Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. The District Court concluded that factual disputes related to venue should be resolved by the jury and denied Smith’s motion to dismiss without prejudice.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

The Alabama House passed a bill and the state Senate unanimously passed another on Thursday that would safeguard access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) following the Alabama Supreme Court decision in LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic, Inc. which classified frozen embryos as children.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana. The court also sent Joseph Smith’s case from Alabama’s death row back to the court of appeals for more clarification of the basis for the lower court’s decision.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

The Alabama House of Representatives rejected a bill on Wednesday that would allow the resentencing of death row inmates who were sentenced by a trial judge. The bill was defeated in Alabama’s House Judicial Committee by a 9-4 vote. In 2016, the US Supreme Court issued an opinion on Hursts v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to impose new restrictions on the ability of states to sentence juveniles to life without parole, rejecting a challenge from a Mississippi man, Brett Jones, who was convicted of the 2004 stabbing death of his grandfather, a crime committed when Jones was 15.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. The court also agreed to take up a twice-relisted challenge to Colorados ban on conversion therapy.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Supreme Court Restores Alabama Voting Map That a Court Said Hurt Black Voters (Adam Liptak, The New York Times). What Makes a Good Supreme Court Justice?

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the legality of state efforts to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors — a contentious issue in a nation deeply divided over transgender rights and the role of medical intervention in youth gender identity. In November, the plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Once again this week, the Supreme Court has been busy sifting through the relists. And the court denied review of a petition raising a First Amendment challenge to university bias-response teams.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The answer the court gave was a stern rebuke, vitiating the plenary control that lower-court decisions had granted the state for more than a quarter of a century. The lower courts quickly allowed Texas to act under those provisions to subject tribal operations to the full range of its regulations.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. After the Supreme Court’s spring cleaning last week , the justices were down to just two relists on their rolls. The Supreme Court relisted four cases this week. But the court relisted Sanders instead.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

During his time as an associate justice from 1877 to 1911, he broke with his colleagues in some of the most consequential – and infamous – rulings that the court has ever issued. Later, Robert sent John a series of letters offering political advice and sharing his efforts to promote John for a Supreme Court appointment.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the District Court for the District of Columbia has caused a bit of a stir after a hearing in a criminal case where she called for briefing on the alternative grounds for the right to an abortion. The court came to this question by a rather circuitous route. Alabama , 219 U.S. 480, 484 (1990).

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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. She said she disguised 911 call analysis in court by “getting creative … without calling it ‘science.’”. “I Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday overturned a panel decision and upheld Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which seeks to prohibit a specific type of dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion method.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

As I discussed yesterday , I was astonished by the remarks of President Joe Biden on his support for extending the eviction moratorium, which was found to be unconstitutional by lower courts. It was later preserved by a divided Supreme Court despite the view of a majority that it was unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court will consider one question: “Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and her team are urging the court to reverse Roe and return this issue to legislatures, the proper realm for policymaking.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s time again (actually, past time) to look at how the California Supreme Court fared at the U.S. Supreme Court during the latter’s most recent term, which ended last month. There was no direct review of any of the state court’s work, but there were some notable high court/California Supreme Court-related actions.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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