Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. The post Delaware Loses Bid to Keep Uncashed MoneyGram Checks appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin : The case centers on what should happen to uncashed checks issued by MoneyGram, which is the second largest money transfer company in the world. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off Term With Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. 922(g)(1), which bars ex-felons from possession of firearms.

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Legal Research is Easy

AUGUST 5, 2019

Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. The kicker is that unlike parents (who, hopefully, are on the same page and the kid realizes that it's unlikely dad will overrule mom), it is critical that courts make the same rulings over and over so that people know how law will be applied.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 16, 2021

a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. The post Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 23, 2021

a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. The post Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 9, 2021

a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. The post Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Not Pennsylvania. Today is the anniversary of Wyoming becoming the first territory or state to grant women the right to vote on December 10, 1869. Not Massachusetts. Not New York. The reason for the decision is hotly debated and I would have preferred simply a frontier appreciation for freedom.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2022

States opposed to slavery, like Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, had precursor state constitutional provisions recognizing the right to bear arms. Law enforcement was relatively scarce at the time, even in the more populous states. In his famous 1770 defense of Capt.

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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

JUNE 12, 2021

fn41] Whoever examines the forest, and game laws in the British code, will readily perceive that the right of keeping arms is effectually taken away from the people of England. In Northern states where slavery was not as opular, the Second Amendment was an important guarantee against that danger of tyranny. Amendments to C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2021

A University of Pennsylvania professor faced calls for his termination when he questioned an anti-racism statement. At UChicago, a respected academic was the subject of a campaign to his termination simply because he criticized BLM and questioned claims about police abuse.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. We still believe that no one is above the law — including those who are rich, famous and powerful.”. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2022

Musk has his undergraduate degrees not in engineering but a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics (both from the University of Pennsylvania). None of these degrees bestow basis for claiming superior knowledge of constitutional law or human rights.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. ” McCulloch v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week opposed a model law being introduced in over a dozen states. The ACLU historically opposed laws that denied free speech and other rights under the Constitution, a legacy that I have long cherished and supported. This brings us back to the model law.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. Law enforcement arrested Counterman on May 12, 2016, and charged him one count of stalking (credible threat), section 18-3-602(1)(b) ; one count of stalking (serious emotional distress), section 18-3-602(1)(c) ; and one count of harassment, section 18-9-111(1)(e), C.R.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. Perhaps some of our Pennsylvania lawyers could help out.

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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. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2021

The biggest problem was that it constituted direct government regulation of media. The Constitution says there can be no law “abridging the free press,” and many of us agree with Justice Hugo Black’s view when he said: “I take ‘no law abridging’ to mean ‘no law abridging.’”. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet, Franklin might be a bit confused by his critics at the University of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Franklin once wrote “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.” Anti-Israel activists vandalized his statue as a symbol of colonialism.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2023

That included most famously the Pennsylvania long rifle that was the bane of the existence of the British. .” Williamson is impressive to the degree that she got both the history and capacity of revolutionary weapons wrong. Rifles did exist in the Revolution.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

To protect such families in the future, a new law called the P’Nut Law has been introduced. When the squirrel refused to return to the wild, they adopted him as a pet in their home in rural Pine City , near the Pennsylvania border. ” Under Section 11-0512 of New York’s Environmental Conservation Law, 1.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 10, 2022

Wade and erase 50 years of abortion law precedent. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. In 1852, the New York Tribune reported that the Supreme Court would rule in Pennsylvania v. The case, Dobbs v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the call by the Biden White House and many in the media to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in light of the recent decision of the Supreme Court not to enjoin the new abortion law in Texas. While widely portrayed in the media as “codifying Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2021

was a student at Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, who tied out for the school’s varsity cheerleading squad. This free exchange facilitates an informed public opinion, which, when transmitted to lawmakers, helps produce laws that reflect the People’s will. The case involved a disgruntled cheerleader.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Cardozo School of Law. Guy-Uriel E.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And when Congress passes it, I’ll sign it in January, 50 years after Roe was first decided the law of the land.” The WHPA would dramatically expand Roe and its successor case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Since 1973, states have used that precedent to enact hundreds of laws on abortions.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Texas on the request for an emergency injunction in Texas to block the state’s controversial abortion law. The merits of the law are not at issue in the questions presented today but the decision to push for an injunction comes with some risks for the Biden Administration. Jackson and United States v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The court found that, in their 2021 Congressional Plan, the Democrats not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads , which had asked the justices to weigh in on a procedural question: When the question before a federal appeals court is whether it has the power (known as jurisdiction) to hear the case at all, can the court instead assume that it has jurisdiction to dismiss the claims based on state law?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

District Court Judge Matthew Brann dismissed the challenge filed by the Trump campaign to stop the certification of the vote in Pennsylvania. We need to move away from these personal attacks and focus on the law. On Saturday, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association. Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our law school. I have only missed a couple of graduation in almost 30 years of teaching.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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.

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