SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

She went to court filed a lawsuit in federal court in Alabama against Boehringer Inhelheim Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Zantac, and against Walgreens, which sold the drug, alleging that Zantac caused her cancer. KPFF Investment, Inc. Lewis County, Kentucky v.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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. Alabama had asked the justices to reverse an appeals court decision that lifted Smith’s death sentence. 5 until Nov. Under the Supreme Court’s 2002 decision in Atkins v.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Pardons are also the only state relief mechanism in America recognized by federal immigration law that would allow “a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony to avoid mandatory deportation and remove the conviction-related bar to citizenship.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Underwood , the Supreme Court invalidated a similar provision of the Alabama constitution that disenfranchised people convicted of crimes “involving moral turpitude.” Based on that denial, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals vacated her death sentence and sent the case back to the trial court. They note that in Hunter v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Legal Services Alabama, Inc. , 1252(a)(2)(D) bars review of an asserted question of law where a noncitizen has challenged the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of the statutory extreme hardship standard found at 8 U.S.C. CVSG: 5/18/2023 (relisted after the June 22 conference) Davis v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born If the court had ordered that Jackson Giles and his 5,000 co-plaintiffs be registered as voters, it’s likely that, as Holmes feared, many Alabama officials would have defied the ruling. born children.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2024

In May, civil rights groups sued to stop a criminal immigration law from going into effect. And Alabama and Idaho are considering similar bills, potentially giving rise to more litigation in the future. .” Hot-button Iowa legislation has faced litigation in recent months. A district judge did the same in Arkansas.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nancy Williams and others brought suit under Section 1983 in Alabama state court, complaining about delays in the processing of unemployment benefits. Washington presents a similarly discrete issue about claims brought in state court under 42 U.S.C. Now on to the capital cases docket. The Supreme Court held in Atkins v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. On it, Harpster has openly espoused misogynistic, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views. He doesn’t want a legal precedent prohibiting the admission of his research.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These facts distinguish the Virginia case from the Alabama case where a court enjoined removal of names of suspected non-citizens. Florida is now suing the Biden administration for allegedly obstructing the verification of immigration records so the state can remove any non-citizens.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2021

Conversely, earlier this month, Amazon employees in Alabama rejected unionization efforts, expressing concern about the cost of union dues and remaining unconvinced of the added benefits of union protection. Over the past 50 years, union membership among workers has fallen from 33 percent to 10 percent. That process starts now.”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Garland is an immigration case. An immigration judge rejected Abdulla’s arguments, and the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected his appeal as untimely because it had been filed beyond the 30-day appeal deadline and had failed to demonstrate exceptional circumstances warranting certification of the appeal out of time.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

During the week of June 13, the Supreme Court decided two immigration cases (involving bond hearings for noncitizens in immigration detention) and declined to decide a third (involving the Trump-era “public charge” policy for green card applicants). The post An important week for immigration law appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

San Francisco Chronicle ] * Rittenhouse's judge is starting to give me Alabama vibes. Rolling Stone ] * In a win for labor rights, immigrant detainees in Washington will have to be paid at least minimum wage! [ Daily Beast ] * One way to support our service folks might be allowing them to sue the Defense Department. [

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent bills proposed in Florida and California on immigration and guns. DeSantis’s ‘tongue in cheek’ immigration relocation law. The Biden administration has been moving thousands of immigrants around the country by plane and bus. Here is the column: California Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

Singh (consolidated for one hour of oral argument), in which the justices will consider notice requirements in immigration cases; McElrath v. In 1985, the challengers note, the Supreme Court struck down a similar provision in the Alabama constitution that had been enacted to disenfranchise African Americans. Garland and Garland v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. It is the same basis that Democrats used to successfully challenge some Trump immigration policy changes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Whether it is the circumvention of Congress or launching unilateral wars, presidents dance to their own tune to the gleeful applause of their supporters. Take the series of losses recently by the Biden Administration in areas like immigration. In its 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

City and County of San Francisco, California , involving an attempt by 14 states to intervene to defend the Trump administration’s controversial “public charge” immigration rule after the Biden administration declined to defend it in court. relisted after the Sept. 27 conference). Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas , 20-493.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. In Juliana v.

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