Constitutional Law Court Decisions Laws Texas 
Constitutional Law Reporter
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. Facts of the Cases The two cases before the Court, Moody v.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Justice Sotomayor participated in the event with law students by Zoom. Sotomayor first told the law students to expect a “huge amount” of disappointment in the law and pointed to “my dissents” as evidence of that struggle. Sotomayor then turned to the recent court decision not to intervene in the Texas abortion case.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
AUGUST 6, 2024
Supreme Court upheld a city ordinance that imposes criminal penalties on homeless sleeping outside. According to the Court, the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 1, 2023
. § 1983 procedural due process claim begins to run at the end of the state-court litigation. Facts of the Case A Texas jury found petitioner Rodney Reed guilty of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Reed’s conviction and death sentence.
Constitutional Law Reporter
APRIL 11, 2023
MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. Multiple States, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, argue that the common law does not apply because the abandoned proceeds of the Disputed Instruments are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Checks Act.
LegalReader
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Ohio lawmakers have introduced new anti-abortion bill.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Gavin Newsom thrilled many this weekend by saying that his administration will model a new law on Texas’ abortion ban that would let private citizens sue anyone who makes or sells assault weapons or ghost guns. Newsom denounced the Supreme Court in Women’s Health v. California Gov. It won’t work. Legally, that is.
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