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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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In Alabama Association of Realtors v. Supreme Court struck down the federal government’s ban on evictions, which was scheduled to last until October 3, 2021. If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue, Congress must specifically authorize it,” the Court wrote. However, the court stayed its order pending appeal.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. In 1968, Congress transferred the federal government’s trust responsibility for the Pueblo to the state of Texas, following a similar action it had taken in 1954 for a much larger reservation held by the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

Share Two years after the court ruled that a disparity in bankrupt debtors’ fees between judicial districts was impermissible, the justices on Friday ruled 6-3 that charging equal fees going forward is an adequate remedy for that disparity. By statute, the U.S. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC was how to remedy the problem.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. The statute includes a list of information the government must include – most notably, the time and place of the removal hearing. Garland and Garland v. Under 8 U.S.C.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

The department pointed to the Arizona statute allowing a defendant sentenced to death to choose between lethal injection or lethal gas at least 20 days before the execution date. Lethal gas is permitted for executions in six other states: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyoming.

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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 most controversial provisions of that statute, addressed in Ysleta , are the provisions that govern the tribes’ subjection to Texas gambling regulations.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Share Several police officers outside the Supreme Court building have donned masks as haze from Canadian wildfires has become more noticeable in Washington this morning. Elliott for historical correctness, but the issue is a bit complex and the court likely had several reasons for putting the Kansas case first.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Back in January, we noted that the Supreme Court had relisted five petitions challenging the constitutionality of the controversial practice of acquitted-conduct sentencing.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share With two dozen cases from its 2021-22 term still undecided, the Supreme Court on Tuesday released the first argument calendar for its 2022-23 term. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit used the correct test to determine whether wetlands are “waters of the United States” for purposes of the Clean Water Act. Goertz (Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As some Supreme Court podcasters have noted, Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in late January pushed the so-called Maskgate controversy out of the spotlight. Perhaps the court has concluded that certain podcasters are in need of more fodder for their metaphors about the status of the court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The New York Times lost a critical effort to block the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears. The Times ran an article “A Fourth Alabama Player Was at a Deadly Shooting, in a Car Hit by Bullets.” We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We don’t have any stick,” Newsome said.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court announced that it would hold its “mop up” conference for October Term 2022 on Thursday, after completing the day’s opinion announcements. Legal Services Alabama, Inc. ,

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LettersBlogatory

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The order , issued on August 31, is meant to reimpose restrictions in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. The Boston Public Health Commission was created by statute, Chapter 147 of the Acts of 1995.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This would be similar to the controls over the rates of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, whose rates can only be imposed following an agreement with a copyright holder or, where there is no voluntary agreement, by a determination by a court (for ASCAP and BMI) or an arbitration panel (for SESAC) that the new rates are reasonable.

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Strictly Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

While the FTC Act was not originally aimed at data privacy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has successfully argued in federal court that its claims against companies for weak cybersecurity measures properly falls within the FTC Act’s prohibition against unfair business practices.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a motion Monday arguing that the state can prosecute those who assist people with accessing out-of-state abortion care. In doing so, he asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an abortion assistance fund contending that such prosecutions are unconstitutional.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. Justice Kavanaugh writes, quoting Linda R.S. :

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. Again, the court agreed. He fell backwards and injured his wrists.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. Again, the court agreed. He fell backwards and injured his wrists.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. The court did, however, deny review in one case that had been relisted three times – King v. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

The Texas Supreme Court upheld a statutory ban on gender-affirming care for minors on Friday. The Texas Supreme Court found that SB 14 does not infringe on the parental right to make medical care decisions for their children because that right competes with the interest of protecting children from harm.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. So at the last conference, the Supreme Court acted on a ton of relists. White , the court summarily vacated a decision by the U.S. That brings us to this weeks one new relist: Alabama v. California.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Share Last term at the Supreme Court teemed with culture-war issues: guns , religion , climate change , COVID vaccines , and of course abortion. In 1978 , 2003 , and 2016 , the court affirmed that universities may consider applicants’ race as part of an effort to foster diversity on campus. 9, another remedial statute is at risk.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 14, 2023

The modern American notion of a boycott stirs the moral imagination, conjuring images of the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott , when Black citizens refused to ride on city buses in 1950’s Alabama, or the 1990’s consumer boycott of Nike to protest the company’s human rights violations. And what are the permissible boundaries of that behavior?

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. On Monday, the Supreme Court granted review in Vidal v. Otherwise, all of last week’s cases are back for another week at the court. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. First, the “old business.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. Louis, a Missouri court was faced with a claim from Carly Munoz who in 2019 sent to Six Flags’ Fright Fest with her cousin. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Six Flags St.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Supreme Court resumed oral arguments on October 30, as it begins its November session. Below is a brief summary of the cases before the Court: Culley v. Marshall : The case arises out of the seizure and retention of the plaintiffs’ vehicles under Alabama’s Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF) statute. 8,850 and Barker v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week the court will be considering 150 certiorari petitions and applications at its conference Thursday. Elster is vying for another spot on the court’s growing docket of cases related to our 45th president.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 26, 2021

Share Just under two months after a divided court allowed an earlier moratorium to remain in place, the Supreme Court on Thursday night blocked the Biden administration from enforcing the latest federal moratorium on evictions, imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC had extended the moratorium through July 2021.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. ” Wyoming filed a separate complaint in the federal District Court for its own state.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Share A group of Alabama real-estate agents and landlords returned to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to block the Biden administration’s latest ban on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The real estate agents and landlords went to federal court in Washington, D.C., But on Aug.

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