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Circuit Scoop — February 2025

Above The Law

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Fontes , which involved election law and constitutional questions, and Foote v. Other Areas: 15 points.

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Should the Seventh Amendment Civil Jury Trial Right Apply to the States?

The Volokh Conspiracy

, 85 Southern California Law Review 1451, 1485-1487 (2012). But when it comes to the Seventh Amendment, 36 out of 37 State Constitutions in 1868, guaranteed the right to jury trials in all civil or common law cases. The civil jury has a long and distinguished history in Anglo-American law. of the U.S. 73,77 (1789).

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Supreme Court Considers Scope of Federal Bribery Law

Constitutional Law Reporter

United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. The District Court held that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is jurisdictional and because the landowners failed to prove that their claims arose within twelve years of the lawsuit being filed, it dismissed the case. Last week, the U.S.

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Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Challenge Federal Immigration Policy

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. The States of Texas and Louisiana claim that the Guidelines contravene two federal statutes that they contend require the arrest of certain noncitizens upon their release from prison ( 8 U.S.C.

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SCOTUS Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Title IX Rule Granting Protections to LBGTQ Students

Constitutional Law Reporter

Louisiana , the U.S. The statute tasks the Department of Education with “issuing rules, regulations, or orders of general applicability” to “effectuate” Title IX’s antidiscrimination mandate. District Courts in Louisiana and Kentucky agreed with the plaintiffs and preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the rule in the plaintiff States.

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Pornhub Wins Free Speech Challenge to New Verification and Warning Laws

JonathanTurley

District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. The lawsuit challenged the Texas law, which was set to go into effect Sept. I do view this law as containing unconstitutional elements.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. 1 in support of that law.