JURIST

MARCH 3, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that will shape the future of restrictive voting rights laws. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee concerning two Arizona state laws. The court heard arguments in the combined cases of Brnovich v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Arizona “generally makes it quite easy for residents to vote.” Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the water level at Lake Powell, the massive reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Utah-Arizona border, is at historic lows, threatening its ability to generate power. Under western water law, which prioritizes first-in-time users, Indian water rights take priority over all others. The first issue in Arizona v.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2022

The Northern District Court of California Tuesday ruled that Major League Baseball (MLB) violated Arizona and Florida state minimum wage laws when not paying minor leaguers during spring training, instructional leagues, or extended spring training. Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2021

Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow and manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation. The court upheld Arizona’s ban on vote trafficking (or what is euphemistically referred to as “vote harvesting”) and the state’s requirement that an individual vote within his assigned precinct for his ballot to count.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

Cantil-Sakauye was the keynote speaker last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. “Every year, the state bar dues bill — the bill that lawyers have to pay for the privilege and right to practice law in California — goes before the legislature.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The first case involves Axon Enterprise, an Arizona company that makes police body cameras and other technology products for law enforcement. The general federal jurisdiction statute ( 28 U.S.C. Axon has been mired in FTC investigations and proceedings since it purchased a competitor in 2018.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Mark Brnovich is the attorney general of Arizona. “… the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”. Any noble government that believes its law-abiding citizens must be restrained from owning or responsibly carrying firearms does not understand the difference between citizens and subjects.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Established in 1871, the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation spans 2,800 square miles in southeastern Arizona and is home to nearly 11,000 people. Under the federal statute governing these contracts, tribes can then keep third-party insurance revenue so long as they spend it on health care. In Becerra v.

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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

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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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation. Her answer was optimistic.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 3, 2021

The Appropriations Act became law on December 27, 2020. That statute made a number of additional temporary changes to the Bankruptcy Code, all of which, by their terms, expire either one year or two years after the changes became effective. Second, the new laws bring with them different interpretations.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Specifically, the statute calls for differential pay when a reservist is “perform[ing] active duty in the uniformed services pursuant to a call or order to active duty under … a provision of law referred to in [10 U.S.C. §] 101(a)(13)(b).” Customs and Border Protection and as a technical sergeant in the Arizona Air National Guard.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2025

He contends that although Congress has specifically prohibited district courts from considering a defendants rehabilitation when deciding whether to reduce a sentence, federal law otherwise gives district courts broad discretion to reduce sentences when they find extraordinary and compelling reasons to do so.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). O.C.G.A. §

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Even if the decision stands, it applies only in the Ninth Circuit, which encompasses Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Air pollution is governed at the federal, state, and sometimes local levels, and the relevant federal statute is the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Arizona does not provide a basis for civil damages under 42 U.S.C. The majority’s decision both hobbles Miranda ’s enforceability and unceremoniously strips the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination of Miranda ’s prophylactic protection, heretofore regarded as criminal procedure canon in American law.

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Diane Drain

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The Consolidated Appropriation Act “CAA”, I can only assume, like so many of the other laws created by the Legislative branch, that this huge Act contains lots of special interest provisions, but I regress. Drain - Phoenix Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney. Preferences.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Specifically, the justices will consider whether a law enforcement officer may be sued under 42 U.S.C. Dickerson put the kibosh on an unconstitutional federal statute that, effectively, sought to overrule Miranda. Share Miranda v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Arizona allows a plaintiff to sue for money damages under 42 U.S.C. Thomas asked if Dickerson held that Miranda cannot be displaced by a federal statute, why is Miranda not a constitutional right, actionable under Section 1983? Share On Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered whether a violation of Miranda v. Stated thusly?

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The FCC’s Media Bureau issued an Order granting the license renewal of an FM station is Arizona for only one year, instead of the normal eight year period, because the station had been silent for extended periods.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 20, 2021

Arizona Bill wants Judgment Creditor to get paid before homeowners when house is refinanced (something Arizona law has not allowed since mid 1950s). Concerns about Arizona HB 2617, especially with the amendments: will allow old and new judgments to attached to homesteads. The bill and amendments change the existing law.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2011

With noncommercial stations, by law restricted to raising funds without commercial advertising, many are looking for new ways of operating. Similar general statements were echoed in the hearing on the report recently held by the FCC in Arizona. How are FCC regulations and interpretations reacting to these new realities?

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2024

” Paragraph (1) of section 1229(a) requires a single notice document that contains all the information specified in the statute, including the “time and place” of proceedings. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off January 2024 Session With Five Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Siegel v. Fitzgerald , 142 S.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2025

Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona ruled Wednesday that Arizona’s abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional and permanently enjoined Arizona employees from enforcing the abortion ban. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes stated she would “not enforce it even if the court upheld the ban.”

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Diane Drain

MAY 15, 2021

On January 1, 2022, HB2617 will become the law of Arizona. Your home is no longer protected from your judgment creditors, which will have a devastating effect on Arizona’s consumers, and those hardest hit by Covid-19. The purpose of the homestead exemption is to protect a person’s home. (i)

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2022

US District Court Judge Douglas Rayes Monday blocked Arizona’s “personhood” law from taking effect. Rayes found the law was too vague, making it likely that plaintiffs will win their case, justifying his injunctive order until the case is settled.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

Arizona’s Supreme Court found on Tuesday that a 159-year-old law banning abortion is enforceable following the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights case Roe v Wade, sending a 52-year-old case back to trial court. But despite the injunction, Arizona lawmakers never repealed the law, so it remained on the books.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation. Her answer was optimistic.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

States such as Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, California, Florida Georgia , Texas, Arizona, and Oregon have emerged as major data center hubs and are now faced with the challenge of upgrading their grids to bring more electricity to them. The cost allocation debate has caused tensions in regions of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. The Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to break the wildlife laws of any state, tribe, or foreign country, in interstate commerce. Under the common law, there is strict liability for injuries caused by wild animals in your possession.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a 200-word description of a ballot initiative to enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution was valid and determined voters would see the initiative on the statewide general election ballot.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2022

An Arizona state appeals court Friday blocked enforcement of a 1901 abortion ban, which bans all abortions unless the procedure is necessary to save a pregnant person’s life. Planned Parenthood said, with the stay in place, Arizona clinics will now resume abortion procedures.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

A group of Arizona plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday seeking to block implementation of two provisions of an abortion law set to go into effect in September. The personhood provision, on the other hand, “alters the entire Arizona Revised Statutes.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is normally a federal matter. The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses.

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