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The morning read for Thursday, September 21

SCOTUSBlog

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court can let West Point keep affirmative action (Noah Feldman, Washington Post) I teach constitutional law.

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SCOTUS Limits Foreign Reach of Trademark Law

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that the trademark infringement provisions of the Lanham Act do not apply extraterritorially, but rather extend only to claims where the infringing use in commerce is domestic. The District Court also entered a permanent injunction preventing Abitron from using Hetronic’s marks anywhere in the world.

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Half Baked or The American Dream: Can States Ban Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream?

JonathanTurley

The calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in states like Texas, Florida ,and Oklahoma will give citizens the common choice between something Half Baked and the American Dream. ” An actual state boycott could raise serious constitutional questions in interfering with interstate commerce and free speech.

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Oklahoma House approves bill banning abortions except in medical emergencies

JURIST

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Tuesday to enact a law that makes it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency. Since the Supreme Court refused to enjoin the Texas law in December 2021 in Whole Women’s Health v.

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Court blocks pathway for federal prisoners to raise legal innocence claims

SCOTUSBlog

Share On Thursday, the Supreme Court held that a federal prisoner cannot raise a claim of legal innocence if he has already challenged his conviction – even if that claim was unavailable at the time he filed his challenge. The court’s decision in Jones v. Nearly two decades later, the Supreme Court decided in Rehaif v.

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Arizona dispatch: student delegates to Model Constitutional Convention pass proposed amendments on equal rights, tribal sovereignty, gerrymandering and eminent domain limits

JURIST

But the Convention came together to declare that equal rights, including rights for women and LGBTQ+ people, should be a fundamental value of American constitutional law. In my second dispatch from this Convention, I spoke with the amendment’s sponsor, Crispin South, a Choctaw law student at ASU and a delegate representing Oklahoma.

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The morning read for Friday, Sept. 10

SCOTUSBlog

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times). God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times). His Response?