SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

States subject to Cabazon Band were entitled (under a federal statute referred to as Public Law 280) to prevent the prohibited types of gambling even on reservations, but they cannot enforce their regulatory regimes against those types of gambling that are regulated but not prohibited.

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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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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Juvenile Court jurisdiction should be based on a young person’s age at the time of their offense, replacing statutes in some states that kick a juvenile case up to adult criminal court when a person turns 18 during the course of court proceedings, according to a forthcoming essay in the Villanova Law Review.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

For historical reasons involving politics at the time of the Bankruptcy Code’s enactment, six districts in Alabama and North Carolina do not participate in that system; they are administered by the Bankruptcy Administrator Program in the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. By statute, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The statute includes a list of information the government must include – most notably, the time and place of the removal hearing. A noncitizen who does not attend a removal proceeding can be ordered removed as long as written notice has been provided to him under the statute. Tori Madden) The question before the justices on Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Inside, the courtroom is full, with groups of lawyers from three organizations being sworn into the bar: the Christian Legal Society, the University of Kansas School of Law, and the American Bar Association Senior Lawyer Association. United States , which limits the scope of identity theft under a federal criminal statute. “I

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This year the long conference yielded 12 new grants, on topics ranging from controversial laws seeking to regulate social media companies ( covered in a separate story ) to property rights and bankruptcy fees. The cases granted on Friday will likely be argued in January or February 2024, with a decision to follow by summer. Supreme Court.

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Strictly Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

It’s hard to imagine a startup that does not collect some form of sensitive information in digital form, and the collection, use, and disclosure of such information is regulated under federal, state, and even international laws. Federal Laws Governing Data Privacy. State and International Laws.

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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. 239 or any general or special law to the contrary.”

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

December 1 is also the deadline for noncommercial ownership reports to be filed by noncommercial radio stations in Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont , and noncommercial television stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (see our Advisory here ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: GRIDArendal on Visualhunt Antitrust – a previously dormant area of law and federal enforcement – has reached a new zenith in recent years. Antitrust law defines guardrails to address boycotts led by corporations. What is a Boycott, according to antitrust law? What actions, and what changes, are inspired?

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) filing a lawsuit against Global Music Rights (GMR) alleging that GMR was violating the antitrust laws by offering an all or nothing blanket license for rights to play the songs written by certain songwriters now represented by this new performing rights organization.

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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. To counter, Marshall asserted that “federal courts lack authority to order a State official to comply with a federal court’s reading of State law.”

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

” The states of Texas and Louisiana originally filed their lawsuit against the federal government in 2021, saying: The Biden Administration is refusing to take custody of criminal aliens despite federal statutes requiring it to do so. carte blanche to avoid accountability for abandoning enforcement of immigration laws.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2022

The legislature has yet to amend the law, which requires a mandatory sentence of at least 30 years without parole for juveniles and adults convicted under certain homicide statutes. The court will therefore allow juveniles convicted under the law to have their sentence reviewed.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

committed his offense of conviction in 1995, when federal law required payment of restitution for 20 years after entry of judgment. The question is how such laws should be considered when state-law disputes are brought in federal court under diversity of citizenship jurisdiction because the dispute involves citizens of different states.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Circuit upheld the regulation, holding that “the disputed rule is consistent with the best interpretation of ‘machine gun’ under the governing statutes.” In Cargill , the en banc U.S. Coinbase asserts that this situation arises frequently, and it argues that the circuits are divided: While the U.S. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

3, the justices will hear oral argument in important cases involving issues such as voting rights, the Clean Water Act, and a challenge to a California animal-welfare law. Caster ), a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan that Alabama adopted after the 2020 census. During the argument session that begins on Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The problem involves the odd history of two of the three Native American tribes that remain in the state of Texas, the petitioner Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (a tiny reservation near El Paso) and the much larger Alabama-Coushatta reservation in East Texas. Gorsuch offers several responses.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In Alabama Association of Realtors v. Realtor associations and rental property managers in Alabama and Georgia sued to enjoin the CDC’s moratorium. Nonetheless, the court concluded that its hands were tied by the law of the case, in light of the D.C. Department of Health and Human Services , 594 U.S. _ (2021), the U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

The court did not find either situation to be the case because “[t]he statute does not prevent medical providers from treating children with gender dysphoria with [alternative treatments], nor does it prohibit them from providing those medical procedures to adults.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The question is whether a 1987 federal statute subjects certain Indian tribes in Texas to that state’s entire body of gambling law. And the key practical effect is whether the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta tribes may operate bingo games on their reservations. If they are not bingo, they’re something else.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2024

It explicitly separates the concept of “sex” from “gender identity,” stating that the latter, along with similar subjective terms, cannot be used interchangeably with or as substitutes for “sex” in legal statutes. At the time of HRC’s 2023 report, over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ laws had been introduced in the US.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. Alabama , she contends that it was error not to receive the newly proffered mitigating evidence.

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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’re not a law enforcement or compliance agency.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Legal Services Alabama, Inc. , 22-510 Issue : Whether, when officers put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and pushed into his back until he died, they are they entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law because the person struggled to breathe before dying. That last case, United States v. Louis, Mo. ,

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The theory runs against the text, history, and case law of the Thirteenth Amendment. That academic attention is generally a reference to a 1990 Northwestern University Law Review article, which is cited by the Court in its order. Alabama , 219 U.S. Alabama , 219 U.S. 480, 484 (1990).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. It is not clear if Bryant will argue that he was trying to stop intruders under the law, but it does not appear a good fit with the purpose or language of the law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. It is not clear if Bryant will argue that he was trying to stop intruders under the law, but it does not appear a good fit with the purpose or language of the law.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision. Below is an updating guide to states with now-active legislation or trigger laws banning or criminalizing abortion. Law : Alabama HB314 2019. Washington Gov.

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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 the chance to disapprove the California Supreme Court decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 15, 2021

“Alabama woman’s case becomes test of federal anti-riot law; The Justice Department dispatched its top terror prosecutor to defend a statute the Trump administration turned to in its fight against violence at racial justice protests”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The cases before the justices this session involve significant issues of constitutional law including due process, free speech, and gun rights. Marshall : The case arises out of the seizure and retention of the plaintiffs’ vehicles under Alabama’s Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF) statute. Please check back for updates.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

That brings us to this weeks one new relist: Alabama v. Alabama and the other states have asked the Supreme Court to allow them to file a bill of complaint seeking to halt those suits, arguing that they violate the horizontal separation of powers by seeking to regulate activity beyond the defendant states borders. California.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

All left an imprint on the court or the law. In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. Virginia , holding that federal law barred racial segregation in interstate public transportation. Some worked behind the scenes. 17, 1934 – Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law. 9, another remedial statute is at risk. The case was Merrill v. In Haaland v. One question is almost guaranteed to come up at the Dec.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Alabama , involving a claim by a woman on death row that she should have been allowed to present evidence of her good behavior in prison during a resentencing proceeding. But the agency took no action to investigate or correct the disputed information, in violation of the statute. But it denied review in Leavell-Keaton v.

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