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Supreme Court declines South Carolina agency appeal in Google antitrust case

JURIST

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCDPR) challenging a lower court ruling that found the state had waived sovereign immunity by participating in a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google.

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South Carolina Legislators Move to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Information

JonathanTurley

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide. The free speech concerns are even greater with regard to the South Carolina law.

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The Argument in Carson v. Makin Unexpectedly Turns To Critical Race Theory

JonathanTurley

Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

JonathanTurley

Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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Biden’s Blind Spot: “Our Constitutional Principles” Include State Rights Over Elections

JonathanTurley

By ignoring those countervailing principles, the Democrats are creating a dangerous blind spot in these proposed laws. The resulting litigation could leave core election rules in doubt heading into the next round of elections.

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Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Historical Justice: Inside the US Supreme Court’s Restrictive Turn in Holocaust-Related Cases

Conflict of Laws

This restrictive turn mirrors the trajectory of human rights litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). [22] This approach explicitly aims at aligning US law with international law. South Carolina, Charleston Division) (unreported). [12] 22] Starting with the Second Circuits decision in Filrtiga v.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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