Constitutional Law Court Rules Laws Virginia 
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2022
After the Amendment took effect on January 1, 2018, Circuit City, a US chain of electronics retail stores, refused to pay the increased fees and brought suit in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that the 2017 Amendment, which creates nonuniform bankruptcy laws, was unconstitutional.
JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416,
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Bruen is the first major gun rights case in over ten years to come before the Supreme Court and it has the makings of a major gun rights victory in the making. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) There are few constitutional rights that have been debated so long in this country as gun rights. 2)(f) that require a showing of “proper cause.”
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Some of us have repeatedly said that the lawsuit would not succeed despite various law professors filing a brief supporting the underlying claims. It quotes advocates for the rejected challenge and then adds this observation: “The ruling has little bearing on the ongoing fight for D.C. I have written about D.C.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 18, 2021
City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Lower courts have upheld the New York law, but there are ample constitutional concerns over its vague standard, such as showing that you are “of good moral character.”
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 9, 2024
As it has in the past, the court adopted a three-tiered approach to presidential powers based on the source of a presidential action. Sawyer , in which the court ruled against President Harry Truman’s takeover of steel mills. Chief Justice John Roberts cited Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.
JURIST
MAY 27, 2024
JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at ASU Law. New London.
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