SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. The ruling is based on 2022 Supreme Court ruling New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The case concerned Emmanuel Ayala, U.S. .”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. As expected, with the exception of the three liberal justices, the Court appears to be struggling to find a more nuanced approach that would avoid the extreme positions of both parties. Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling against Nina Jankowicz in her defamation case. She then sued Fox News for defamation. Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University. Fox News Network

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

Civil and statutory claims can be curtailed by constitutional limitations. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. In New York Times v. This is such a case in my view. In 2002, the U.S. In Ashcroft v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For example, New York and numerous other cities have declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants yet, in recent months, have protested increasing transfers of such immigrants to their jurisdiction. That legal fight, however, must await a moment of truth for California legislators. In City of Richmond v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. The cartoon captured the distorted view New Yorkers have of the rest of the country. That was all that is required in New York when in pursuit of Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. FEATURED CASE. Biden , No. 3:21-cv-00065 (S.D. July 12, 2021).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. It would also unleash potential legal challenges.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For the record, I am a legal analyst for Fox News, though I have spent my entire academic and professional career opposing criminal and civil efforts to punish or chill free speech. One of the leading cases occurred in 1952 in a New York lawsuit. The Court in cases like New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

” The lawsuit is novel and would create new law, if successful. However, after reading the filing, I remain skeptical of the legal basis for the action. The complaint alleges that the defendants sought to “obstruct a constitutional proceeding by intimidating and retaliating against a key witness.” 1985(2).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

.” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law. However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I was therefore gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of the free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church. The Court in cases like New York Times v. Sullivan have long limited tort law where it would undermine the first amendment.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. In Neiman-Marcus v. Confidential.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision over 50 years ago in New York Times v. The New York Times had run an advertisement referring to abuses of civil rights marchers and the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr. When New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

I recently wrote a column on the hypocrisy of Democratic activists and members denouncing attacks on democracy as they engage in raw gerrymandering in states like New York. It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania).

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

The case had been on hold for nearly a year, waiting for the court to issue its ruling in Allen v. On June 8, a divided court ruled that the map drawn by Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

While most Administrations tend to minimize such test cases to avoid creating bad precedent, the Biden Administration has litigated with an utter abandon — elevating political over legal considerations in litigation. In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. Now it has.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2024

After months of activists and experts calling for the court to allow ballot cleansing by individual states, the justices refused. Figures like Harvard professor Laurence Tribe had insisted that the legal theory allowing Trump’s removal from ballots was “unassailable” and rejected opposing positions as “absurd.”

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