SCOTUSBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Under longstanding constitutional law, most laws survive constitutional challenges so long as the government has a “rational basis” for enacting them. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Munsingwear, Inc. , a decision by the U.S.

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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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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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Legal Research is Easy

AUGUST 5, 2019

In School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. In an 8-1 decision, the Court found that the Pennsylvania law and school-district practice violated the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. Schempp , 374 U.S. Schempp , 374 U.S.

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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. NPR breathlessly billed its interview as “ Historian Carol Anderson Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The Second Amendment.”. 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 7, 2023

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. When his wife recently bought him a deer-hunting rifle, he learned that he was barred under federal law. That triggered the federal ban.

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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 12, 2021

The right to bear arms was viewed as a bulwark against oppression of citizens by the government. In Northern states where slavery was not as opular, the Second Amendment was an important guarantee against that danger of tyranny.

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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. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising). A Pennsylvania man is currently suing in federal court for wrongful conviction. million.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

.” The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits, as well as Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington, and Washington D.C., Oral arguments will be held on April 19, 2023.

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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. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. The charge was later dismissed.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Other schools at the bottom of the list include the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, the University of South Carolina and Fordham University. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. Yet in the end, Joe Biden was elected by a sizable number electoral votes. Professor Hasbrouck adds however that “even with overwhelming Black support— 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden!

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

This brings us back to the model law. The laws passed in states l ike Pennsylvania are not CRT prohibitions but required posting of teaching materials, syllabi, and scholastic achievement scores online. Youngkin was elected in part on a pledge to oppose such material.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2021

In a Washington Post column, University of Pennsylvania professor Victor Pickard insisted that we should “reexamine our assumptions about the relationships between the First Amendment, content regulation, corporate power and any hope for a democratic future.” Indeed, limiting such rights is now framed as a democratic virtue.

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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

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. Longo said he had taken the squirrel in after witnessing Peanut’s mother being hit by a car. Peanut then became an internet sensation.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 10, 2022

In 1852, the New York Tribune reported that the Supreme Court would rule in Pennsylvania v. Wade Articles on the Constitutional Law Reporter. Wade appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. There have been other notable breaches in Supreme Court history. Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co.

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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. What is striking about the language is that the Court secures near unanimous decision by limiting the reach of decision. The case involved a disgruntled cheerleader.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The reason is that the WHPA is not a simple codification but a potentially massive expansion of Roe and its successor case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. So, why the push for Plan B before the Court rules? It seeks to accomplish legislatively what could not be accomplished judicially for decades.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Bob Bauer (co-chair), professor of practice, distinguished scholar in residence and co-director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at New York University School of Law. Cristina M. Laurence Tribe, Carl M.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The WHPA would dramatically expand Roe and its successor case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. The Democrats could have simply sought the codification of Roe but instead loaded the WHPA with a wishlist of pro-choice provisions. It seeks to accomplish legislatively what could not be accomplished judicially for decades.

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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). This is the first time that a congressional map has been thrown out in the history of the state. (It

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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. Casey , in which he argued in support of Pennsylvania abortion restrictions. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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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. On Saturday, U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

The issue came to the court in a dispute arising from environmental contamination from a wood-treatment plant operated by Kerr-McGee in Avoca, Pennsylvania. The law firm moved the case to a federal court in Pennsylvania, arguing that the proceeding “arose in” and was “related to” the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The majority could note that there is an unlikelihood to prevail on the merits because the law contains an affirmative defense that it cannot be used to impose “an undue burden on a woman or group of women.” That is the current test under the controlling case of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , 505 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our law school. Wild chose the commencement address to launch into a personal attack that accused me of being an example of the use of law for “wrongful ends.” This year’s commencement speaker was Rep.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

College newspapers have called on students to confront their racist relatives, and Abigail Adams of Indiana University of Pennsylvania gave students instructions for how to “decolonize” Thanksgiving. .” Here is the column: Thanksgiving dinners around the nation this year could come with a side of shame.

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