JURIST

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday has temporarily reinstated Texas’ six-week abortion ban after a lower court had blocked the law just two days earlier. Pitman found that the law would subject citizens of Texas to irreparable harm if it were allowed to stand. Just hours later, a panel of judges restored the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

Texas to answer the question whether a trial court abridges a defendants Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defendants testimony during an overnight recess. Two new cases were granted on Monday from the rolls of relisted cases. She alleges that U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 2, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether AEDPA bars a man on death row in Texas from arguing that his attorney abandoned him because doing so would require an unlawful “second or successive” petition for habeas corpus. to represent him. According to Gamboa, Ritenour failed him.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A judge from the US District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin on Wednesday temporarily blocked Texas’ restrictive abortion ban, which took effect in September. In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Texas law “clearly unconstitutional.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In October, the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction. CARB and California Attorney General Sought to Join Lawsuit Challenging Port of Los Angeles Project. The complaint’s allegations included that the Corps failed to analyze NWP-12’s climate change impacts.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Supreme Court recently declined to block enforcement of a Texas law that prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The Texas law at issue, S.B. The plaintiffs also sued Mark Lee Dickson, an individual who they allege has threatened to file private enforcement actions against them utilizing SB 8’s cause of action.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit held that as a former employee, Stanley lacked a cause of action under the ADA. Texas mandate that courts deem the standard of “significantly subaverage intellectual functioning” for determining intellectual disability in Atkins v. In Stanley v. Smith , 23-167 Issues : (1) Whether Hall v.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 8, 2023

In June, a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, had barred the ATF from enforcing the rule anywhere in the United States. The District of Columbia, joined by 20 states with Democratic attorneys general – filed a brief supporting the Biden administration’s request to freeze O’Connor’s order. Urging the justices to intervene, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

In October 2021, Danielle Thomas, former exotic dancer known as “Pole Assassin” (and the girlfriend of Texas special teams coach Jeff Banks), found herself embroiled in a Halloween tort after the monkey previously used in her act bit a wandering child at the house of horror she created for Halloween. Again, the court agreed.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Steven Novak, an artist from Dallas, Texas, believes that Halloween should be a bit more than a traditional plastic pumpkin and a smiling ghost. Police were called to his home in Texas over a possible murder. Griffen then appealed and the attorney for the Haunted Hotel quoted Hunter S. Thompson: “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Doe , 20-1374 , concerns whether Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which incorporates its enforcement mechanisms) provides a disparate-impact cause of action for plaintiffs alleging disability discrimination, and whether such claims can be based on facially neutral health-plan terms.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Found Deficiencies in Climate Change and Environmental Justice Analyses for Texas LNG Export Terminals. Federal Court Stayed Remand Order in Minnesota’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Industry, Denied Attorney Fees. City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 2:20-cv-14243 (D.N.J.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In October 2021, Danielle Thomas, former exotic dancer known as “Pole Assassin” (and the girlfriend of Texas special teams coach Jeff Banks), found not just herself but her pet monkey and emotional support animal Gia (who once performed with her in her act) in a tort lawsuit. Police were called to his home in Texas over a possible murder.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Maui asserted causes of action for public nuisance, private nuisance, strict liability failure to warn, negligent failure to warn, and trespass. The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit. BP America Inc. ,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Many criminal defense attorneys and torts attorneys give special thanks for a holiday that can involve copious amounts of alcohol, strained family relations, over-the-hill amateur football players, “Black Friday” sale stampedes , and novice cooks. Source: Eboss. ———————————————————————. Greenberg Smoked Turkeys, Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The District of Utah held that the lease suspensions merely maintained the status quo and therefore were not major federal actions subject to NEPA; the conservation groups therefore lacked standing. Massachusetts Court Declined to Dismiss Massachusetts Investor and Consumer Protection Action Against Exxon. Living Rivers v. Biden , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Sandra’s mother, Ada Mae, was the college-educated daughter of a prosperous Texas merchant and rancher. The Lazy B was so remote that Sandra’s parents sent her to live with her grandparents in El Paso, Texas, a four-hour train ride away, to attend school, beginning in first grade and continuing (except for one year) through high school. “I

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, this is about the media and a public officials. If that were true, pictures in scandals like the Julian Epstein case could be withheld by the accused individuals. Johnson, 491 U. 397, 414 (1989). Indeed, “the point of all speech protection. is to shield just those choices of content that in someone’s eyes are misguided, or even hurtful.”

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