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University of Florida Bars Professors From Testifying Against New State Voting Rules

JonathanTurley

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 I disagree.

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Halakha Challenge: Three Kentucky Women Argue Abortion Law “Imposed Sectarian Theology on Jews.”

JonathanTurley

” Two similar lawsuits are pending in Florida and Indiana on the grounds that it violates the religious freedom for Jewish people. I do not share the view that the law, despite its poor drafting, makes “IVF … legally dangerous if not impossible.”

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Packing Services: Federal Judge Rules Ban on Guns in Post Offices is Unconstitutional

JonathanTurley

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.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

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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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

SCOTUSBlog

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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Three Martha Vineyard Migrants File Lawsuit Against DeSantis

JonathanTurley

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. The splattering of a claims face considerable legal barriers based on the consent of the migrants, as shown in a waiver released by Florida. which was completely false.” DeSantis.

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The Biden Administration Goes To War With The “Non-Vacs”: Is Coercion the Answer?

JonathanTurley

There is a high likelihood of a new round of litigation as pressure builds for new mandates and even lockdowns. But this stage could face legal challenges in coming weeks, as citizens and some states push back on mandates. For the most part, the motivation behind government and private mandates are hard to litigate.