SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Iowa and other states prohibit texting while driving but allow cellphone usage for other purposes, such as navigation. Iowa , police officers pulled Struve over after observing Struve using a cellphone – for an unidentifiable reason – for 10 seconds while driving. In Steven Struve’s case, Struve v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too. Dozens of other defense attorneys had similar reactions. In 2009, Harpster learned about a double homicide in Woodbury County, Iowa, from a television documentary. But Gibbons told someone. It’s my life’s work,” he told me.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As a group, the women are appealing the ruling to the Utah Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear the case. Broadbent’s attorney, Chris Nelson, declined an interview request but wrote in an email: “We believe that the allegations against Dr. Broadbent are without merit and will present our case in court.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Three days later, the county’s District Attorney dropped the charges and released her from jail, after a statewide (and nationwide) outcry. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2025

This week, we highlight petitions asking the court to consider, among other things, whether to overturn a ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that struck down a state law requiring minors under the age of 18 to get consent from their parents before obtaining an abortion. Iowa Pork Producers Association v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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