SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court Rules on Tribal Police and Immigrants’ Testimony (Adam Liptak, The New York Times). Supreme Court will not take up Johnson & Johnson challenge of $2.1

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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 District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom.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

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. Tekoh presents the court with that question. Share Miranda v.

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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. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the States’ motion.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. 1982), the Supreme Court addressed a boycott of white-owned businesses in Mississippi. District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled for Martin on the core constitutional challenge. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb. In NAACP v.

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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. If the debtor fails to modify his plan, the bankruptcy court (on its own motion), the U.S. PPP loans to debtors (or trustees).

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a lower court’s decision to restrict legislation that bans transgender girls from playing sports in an all-girls team. The court also granted a preliminary injunction, allowing the applicants to continue playing on their sports teams.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Second, the court concluded that BLM should have calculated and considered total greenhouse emissions, instead of merely relying on comparisons of yearly emission rates.

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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

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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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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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

MAY 23, 2022

Share Two men on Arizona’s death row are not entitled to present new evidence in federal court to support their arguments that their trial lawyers bungled their cases, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-3 decision. In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court sided with Arizona. “[O]nly

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The court moved Mallory v. Arizona (Nov. President and Fellows of Harvard College on Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. What to know (Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic) City Government Unions Are Shrinking After Supreme Court Decision (Claudia Irizarry Aponte & Suhail Bhat, The City) Gay marriage is legal in Texas.

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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

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. That may be the most important sentence the court has ever published. Board of Education.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Between Phoenix and the reservation is the Tonto National Forest, the largest national forest in Arizona. A federal district court in Arizona rejected the group’s request to stop the land exchange, and the full U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Share On Wednesday, the court heard oral argument in Shinn v. As Roberts put it, what should the court do in a situation where “the plain language” of a statute “seems to require one result,” while “the plainly logical meaning of a subsequent precedent” seems to require the opposite? But a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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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

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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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

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will vote to grant the last cases that will be argued this term (barring expedited briefing on some emergency matter). The court earlier asked for the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court had two weeks off between considering which cases to review, which unsurprisingly means the justices have a lot of petitions before them for Thursday’s conference: 249 by my count. Badgerow v.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. But in one of those cases, the court’s denial of review prompted two justices to object. The Supreme Court will meet this Friday to consider whether to grant review in a group of around 95 petitions and motions.

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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

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Supreme Court. On October 2, the district court granted the companies’ motion to temporarily extend its stay of the remand order until the Supreme Court resolves the application.

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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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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. The states went to the U.S.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. DEA , where the court upheld the DEAs denial of psilocybin use under the Controlled Substances Act. Ludlow Sch.

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

From the website: On March 28 2025, Jenner & Block filed a lawsuit to stop an unconstitutional executive order that has already been declared unlawful by a federal court. We once again go to court to do just that. We expect to prevail quickly. 2 Trump Executive Order Targets WilmerHale, Citing Robert Mueller Ties. Read more here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Courts upcoming conference the second January conference — is ordinarily the justices last opportunity to add new cases to the docket in time for them to review and decide the disputes by the summer recess.

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