Above The Law

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The majority of the Supreme Court is once again shifting their interpretation of the law in order to support right-wing political objectives! A Maricopa County Superior Court found Lake was responsible for the ~$33,000 in expert witness fees AZ Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs incurred. Huffington Post ]. ABA Journal ].

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2021

No ‘Magic Words’ Needed as Asylum-Seekers Lose at High Court (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law). Supreme Court ruling in Arizona case will be another front in the voting rights wars (Ariane de Vogue, CNN). The post The morning read for Wednesday, June 2 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This means that issues decided at the district or administrative court level can be binding on all other courts: district courts, administrative courts, appellate courts, and even the Supreme Court. District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 19, 2023

In Arizona et al. Supreme Court agreed to keep the federal government’s Title 42 policy in place while legal challenges continue. By a vote of 5-4, the justices stayed a lower court decision that would have lifted the policy on December 21, 2022. Alejandro Mayorkas et al.,

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Arizona , 602 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that when an expert conveys an absent lab analyst’s statements in support of the expert’s opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true, then the statements come into evidence for their truth, and implicate the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause. In Smith v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2021, the District Court ruled that the Berkeley ordinance was not preempted by EPCA , rejecting the notion that EPCA preempts local ordinances that do “not facially address any of those [energy conservation or energy use] standards.” Under EPCA, the U.S. Berkeley has not yet said whether it will appeal the Ninth Circuit’s ruling.

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Diane Drain

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is possible that these interpretations of the new Act will change with new legislation or court decisions, so never assume what you read one day will be interpreted the same way the next day. Drain - Phoenix Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney. Below are brief descriptions of each of these amendments.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Share Miranda v. Miranda answered the question, “does the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination extend to the police interrogation of a suspect?”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In April 2023, Kate and Megan Doe sued the defendants, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, and their schools, seeking injunctive relief. The post US Court of Appeals confirms district court decision on transgender sport bans appeared first on JURIST - News. The complainants relied on Sec.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

In a 2-1 panel decision, the court also found that the was overly broad. In so ruling, the appellate court reversed a January 2019 district court decision. Courts in Arizona , Kansas and Texas have also ruled against these laws. There are good-faith objections to the BDS movement.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over an election law that requires state residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in presidential and other federal elections. House Bill 2492 was signed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in March. Inter Tribal Council, Inc.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

US law student and undergraduate delegates passed four proposed amendments Sunday at the first-ever Model Constitutional Convention hosted by Arizona State University (ASU) Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. This followed two days of discussion and deliberation in Phoenix, Arizona. New London.

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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). Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The US Supreme Court will hear arguments from two Arizona death row inmates in a case that could have devastating consequences for prisoners attempting to prove their innocence before execution, reports The Guardian. Meanwhile, USA Today reports that a landmark Supreme Court decision last year in McGirt v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Florida asks Supreme Court to allow its anti-drag law to take effect (Ariane de Vogue, CNN) Bipartisan Legal Scholars Urge Supreme Court To Impose 18-Year Term Limits (Alison Durkee, Forbes) An Arizona drug case related to the 6th Amendment is headed to Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Arizona (Nov. 1): Whether the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling that a state rule of criminal procedure barred an Arizona death-row inmate from obtaining relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment against him. Arizona (Nov. Hendrix (Nov. United States (Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

The case pitted the language of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which generally prohibits federal courts from holding an evidentiary hearing on these kinds of claims if the prisoner “has failed to develop the factual basis of a claim in State court proceedings,” against a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 30, 2023

Arizona , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court sided with John Montenegro Cruz, a death row inmate in Arizona. According to a 5-4 majority, Arizona erred in refusing to apply the Court’s precedent set forth in Simmons v. After Cruz’s conviction became final, the Supreme Court held in Lynch v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To recap the issue in the two cases: A 1996 statute, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, bars federal courts from holding evidentiary hearings in habeas corpus cases if a prisoner “has failed to develop the factual basis of a claim in State court [post-conviction] proceedings.” The question raised in Shinn v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Yet as long as Congress does not intentionally discriminate against a particular faith, the Supreme Court has permitted the legislative branch to manage internal government operations — for example, by allowing private development on public lands — even when it affects religious worship. As it does with many federal lands, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. Arizona ), voting rights ( Baker v. This is the final round of the Big Dance, and it’s time to vote.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. Johnson asks the court to resolve whether denying virtually all exercise violates the Eighth Amendment absent a security justification. Below we briefly discuss those 14 cases.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

An Arizona Senate committee Thursday voted in favor of a bill that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

A team of researchers from Arizona State University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice recently received a federal grant to study 1,000 911 calls. One weekend in October 2019, he addressed more than 100 Arizona police officers and prosecutors at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 4, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on overheated rhetoric of revolution that seems to have overtaken our public discourse, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court. This week, Arizona Democrats pushed a “ F–k the Fourth Event” and told people to “Bring comfortable shoes, water, lawn chairs, posters, and your anger.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 5, 2025

The district court rejected Exxons contention that Title III of the Helms-Burton Act provides an independent basis for a lawsuit in U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which by a vote of 2-1 upheld the district courts decision. Exxon appealed to the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Moving on to potential blockbusters that don’t explicitly call on the court to overrule precedent. Environmental Protection Agency , 21-454 , is a long-running Clean Water Act dispute that has already been the subject of one major Supreme Court decision. They invoke Rapanos v. relisted after the Jan. 7 conference).

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

Gore , said that it would not have been possible for Trump to make up his 10,000 vote deficit in Arizona, or any other state, with a normal recount. He also testified that in all of the court decisions he reviewed regarding Trump’s claims, the Trump campaign did not make cogent claims of fraud.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2021

When the 9th Circuit refused to rehear the cases en banc, eight judges dissented , saying the panel decision “disregard[s] controlling Supreme Court precedent by creating a new judge-made exception to the restrictions imposed by [AEDPA] on the use of new evidence in habeas corpus proceedings.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In its petition, Great Lakes claims that choice of law under federal admiralty has been utter chaos since a 1955 Supreme Court decision , made tolerable only by strict enforcement of choice-of-law clauses. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed. relisted after the Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

As the case comes to the Supreme Court, Medrano contended that the use of his statements violated his rights under Miranda v. Arizona , the landmark 1966 decision that requires police officers to tell suspects that they have a right to remain silent and to have a lawyer with them during interrogation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Federal Court Barred Timber Management in Arizona National Forests Pending New Jeopardy Analysis for Mexican Spotted Owl but Upheld Climate Change Analysis. The federal district court for the District of Arizona enjoined the U.S. 97182-0 (Wash. 4, 2019).

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out an effort by Arizona and 12 other states with Republican attorneys general to defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. The case, Arizona v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

4] Canadas statute is an updated version of what have been called constituency statutes in the United States, which explicitly expand the fiduciary duties of corporate managers and directors beyond shareholders but do not usually include the environment among allowable factors, except in Arizona and Texas. [5] at 17 & tbl. 1; Lucian A.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant. Case Outcome: Reversal of Lower Court Decision: 5 points. Affirmation of Lower Court Decision: 2 points. Area of Law: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Authority: 25 points.

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