Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 1, 2021

Below is a brief summary: Florida v. Georgia : The long-standing dispute between Florida and Georgia involves the rights to the water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. The post Supreme Court Considers “Hot Pursuit” in Closely Watched Fourth Amendment Case appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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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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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

MARCH 21, 2024

A pair of cases challenging Texas and Florida’s controversial social media laws took center stage. While the state laws are slightly different, both limit social media platforms’ ability to engage in content moderation by removing, editing, or arranging user-generated content. NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. McIntosh v.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Proponents of the theory, known as the “independent state legislature” theory, believe that the Constitution gives state legislatures nearly unfettered authority to write the rules for federal elections, with little or no oversight from state courts. The North Carolina case. The North Carolina dispute, Moore v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In challenging the law, TikTok and its users argue that the PAFACAA violates the First Amendment and constitutes an unlawful bill of attainder under Article I. 1181 by applying rational-basis review rather than strict scrutiny in evaluating the constitutionality of the law. The Court also considered five other cases.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 16, 2017

The music battle continues over the question of whether state laws provide a public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings. 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

The second case centers on whether a “bump stock” – an attachment that converts a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon – qualifies as a “machinegun” under federal law. The post SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Vullo The NRA alleges that Maria T.

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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. Indeed, some of these laws do not seem to support an actual boycott as opposed to a divestment in “listed companies.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2024

Florida Gov. To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States…” Denaturalization is largely based on the granting of citizenship based on fraudulent or false representations. Ron DeSantis s(R) yesterday called for the denaturalization of Rep.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Likewise, a study by Georgetown University’s Kevin Tobia and MIT’s Eric Martinez found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law. identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”

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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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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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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

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

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 complaint is stronger on rhetoric than supporting facts or law. which was completely false.”

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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

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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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. ” Judge Mizelle noted that the law stands in conflict with the Bruen decision. That is all. No citation, no authority, no reasoning.”

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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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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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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. Research Prof.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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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.” The election law actually does the opposite. That is also untrue.

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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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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

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. Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. I think of the number 3930.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Among the slew of challenges to state abortion laws after the decision in Dobbs v. The complaint by three Jewish women from Louisville seeks to block the state trigger law on the basis that it violates their religious rights since they do not believe that life begins at fertilization under Jewish law, or Halakha.

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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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