Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Facts of the Case Timothy Smith was indicted in the Northern District of Florida for theft of trade secrets from a website owned by StrikeLines.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 16, 2023

Supreme Court unanimously held that the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. Facts of the Case Timothy Smith was indicted in the Northern District of Florida for theft of trade secrets from a website owned by StrikeLines.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D.,

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 24, 2023

Smith remained in Mobile, Alabama, during the relevant events, but he was tried in the Northern District of Florida, where StrikeLines’s office is located. The post Supreme Court Adds Two Sixth Amendment Cases to Docket appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2024

Both laws also require platforms to provide individualized explanations for certain forms of content moderation and mandate that platforms provider general disclosures about their content-moderation practices. In the Florida case, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that S.B. Please check back for updates.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

However, the Court remanded the cases back to the lower courts after concluding that neither court properly analyzed “the facial First Amendment challenges” to the laws. Facts of the Case In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted statutes regulating large social-media companies and other internet platforms.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

City of Sanford, Florida : The case involves whether a retired firefighter can bring a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) alleging that her employer is discriminating in how benefits are provided to disabled retirees. The Court also considered five other cases. Below is a brief summary: Stanley v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

In their appeal to the justices, the legislators relied on the independent-state-legislature theory, which rests on the idea that two clauses in the Constitution give state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections in their states. The Supreme Court is no stranger to the theory.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 16, 2017

The Florida case has been referred to that state’s highest court for an advisory ruling on the state of the state’s law on the issue, and earlier this week, the same thing happened in California.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Three DFS-regulated entities ultimately entered into consent decrees with DFS, whereby they acknowledged that some of their NRA-endorsed insurance programs violated New York law. The post SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Above The Law

APRIL 12, 2022

The post Mary Jane’s Presence In Court Will Make Quite A Splash appeared first on Above the Law. The object-oriented ontologists have infiltrated the courtroom!

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis s(R) yesterday called for the denaturalization of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after a controversial speech was uncovered in which she pledged to put Somalia first in Congress and her work.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

While everyone was eyeing Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Texas (38), and California (55), no one paid attention to the small states (to their detriment). In fact, the smallest states held 97 Electoral College votes. That's 18% of the total, people. Yep, it's the little guys that'll get you in the end.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 23, 2021

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. The American Dream for many is based on notions the free market and free speech.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Conversely, the top performers this year are, notably, all public universities — Michigan Technological University, Auburn University, the University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, and Florida State University.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Share Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. Cortada’s painting reminds us that Gideon’s petition started a constitutional debate that is still ongoing.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Three University of Florida political science professors have told a federal court that the university barred them from assisting plaintiffs in a challenge to the state’s new voting laws. As state employees, they were told that litigating against a state law would be “adverse to U.F.’s ’s interests.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Florida Gov. Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” The state has denounced SJP as supporting a “terrorist organization” after the massacre of Israelis by Hamas.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Twitter temporarily removed a post from Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo recommending against mRNA coronavirus vaccinations for men under 40. Right on cue, Twitter supplied another example of its corporate censorship culture that must be addressed if Musk is going to restore free speech protections to the social media company.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The filing of a lawsuit upon entry to the United States is not unprecedented, of course. which was completely false.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2022

An appellate panel ruled that the discriminatory-harassment and bias response team policies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) likely violate the First Amendment. There is a major victory for free speech out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit this week. The decision in Speech First v.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 21, 2024

’ appeared first on Above the Law. It's not 'speech,' it's 'sanitary nuisance!' The post Judge Rebukes DeSantis Admin: ‘It’s The First Amendment, Stupid.’

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

In Florida, U.S. 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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

We previously discussed about the effort to fire University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy after he tweeted about “black privilege.” UCF President Alexander Cartwright abandoned any pretense of academic freedom or principle in falling to protect a colleague from an anti-free speech campaign.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Below is my column in USA Today on the “deactivation order” issued to a controversial pro-Palestinian group at the University of Florida. The issuance of a deactivation order last month in Florida sounded like it involved a routine decision by the utility to cut off service because of an overdue bill. Here is the column.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 22, 2024

The NRA cites statements Vullo made in the wake of the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, against gun violence via industry-directed “guidance letters” and a press statement issued by the New York State Governor’s Office. ” After numerous entities cut ties with the NRA, the NRA filed suit. .”

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ONE: On Above the Law’s Thinking Like A Lawyer , host Joe Patrice interviews former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal about his memories arguing before the justice and clerking for her when she was new to the Supreme Court. Craig Williams interviews constitutional law Prof. TWO: On Lawyer 2 Lawyer , host J.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 28, 2023

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld critical provisions in Florida election law reforms, including provisions that Democratic politicians and pundits spent years misrepresenting as “a return to Jim Crow.” It appears that “Jim Eagle” has flown the coop.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Conversely, the top performers this year are, notably, all public universities — Michigan Technological University, Auburn University, the University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, and Florida State University. If anyone doubts their existence, they still may be able to spot Mansfield, who is retired, moving around campus.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2022

A novel lawsuit in Florida has been filed by the parents of Gabby Petito against the parents of Brian Laundrie, Chris and Roberta Laundrie. Brian Laundrie reportedly returned to his parents’ home in Florida on Sept. North Port (FL) Police Department. calls nor texts could be delivered, and she blocked her on Facebook.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts.He is currently working on a book on the American common law tradition. In his long dissent in Seminole Tribe of Florida v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sample Florida License A move by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles could present a long-awaited test case on transgender identity. The Department is reportedly moving to bar people from listing their transgender identity for their gender on Florida driver’s licenses.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Johns County, Florida. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex. The court reversed the decision of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

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JURIST

JULY 1, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded lower court rulings regarding the constitutionality of statutes enacted by Florida and Texas to regulate large social media companies’ content moderation practices. The Eleventh Circuit upheld the Florida injunction, citing First Amendment protections of editorial discretion.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2024

Florida ban violates free speech: DeSantis tramples on free speech rights of Florida students who support Palestinians Efforts to control the funding of free speech are consistent with a larger campaign by this triumvirate.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the passing of one of the greatest figures in human rights law, my former colleague Tom Buergenthal. Tom will be laid to rest this afternoon in Florida. This life was one of the most inspiring stories of human perseverance; an example of sheer will to overcome unspeakable horrors.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2023

It examines mortality rates in Florida newborns between 1992 and 2015 and shows a 0.13% to 0.2% However, Frank again objects that the study is not only “flawed” but does not make that claim: “The study makes no such claims.

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