Constitutional Law Laws Litigation Virginia 
Constitutional Law Reporter
MARCH 5, 2024
Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 12, 2021
See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B.
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SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The government presented no such evidence at Jones’s trial – under the law at the time, it didn’t have to in order to sustain a conviction – and although he had 11 prior felony convictions, Jones testified that he believed his record had been expunged. There is no provision for new rules of statutory interpretation.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Here is the column: A small, exclusive public high school in Northern Virginia is emerging this month as a major battleground over free speech and academic integrity.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Lower courts have upheld the New York law, but there are ample constitutional concerns over its vague standard, such as showing that you are “of good moral character.” City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. 2)(f) that require a showing of “proper cause.”
JonathanTurley
MAY 22, 2022
We have already seen successful litigation challenging mandatory pronoun usage, including the recent litigation involving a teacher in Loudoun County , Virginia. The use of such a guide by a state school would raise serious First Amendment issues.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 14, 2022
.'” Captain Jack Sparrow’s clarification in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean could prove useful when actor Johnny Depp takes the stand in his defamation case in Fairfax, Virginia against his former wife, Amber Heard. Depp and Heard were married for just over a year but have already spent three times than that in litigation.
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