The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Forensic guardianships, which entail wards who are at substantial risk of being questioned by law enforcement officials, are assiduously protected by the law; and they have been further reinforced by Supreme Court decisions. Few police academies provide educational training on legal guardianships.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 14, 2023

“Colleges Can Still Consider Race in Admissions Within Limits, Biden Administration Says; Education, Justice departments highlight the ways schools may pursue a diverse student population in wake of Supreme Court ruling”: Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here’s one example: Over the course of almost two days the police detained the suspect, a man of limited intelligence and little education, who was unaccompanied by a friend or an attorney, for about 30 hours and questioned him almost continuously for about 17 of those hours. In 1969 the Supreme Court ruled in Frazier v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is most striking however is the coverage in the Washington Post, which reported on the summary affirmance but only quoted supporters for the challenge, including a strikingly misleading take on the lower court ruling upheld by the Supreme Court. I have written about D.C. Absent retrocession, there remains only statehood.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Experts told me that’s nowhere near enough data to draw conclusions from because that sample fails to account for who a 911 caller is and how that might affect the way they speak: their race, upbringing, geography, dialect, education. The Ohio Supreme Court has approved Harpster’s course for continuing education credits multiple times.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2021

However, it appears to be the new model for some in higher education. Education officials like Alison Collins, vice president of the San Francisco Board of Education, have declared meritocracy itself to be racist. Higher education has long been based on intellectual achievement and discovery. No more “soft” criteria.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2024

” The Court ruled that “it is a highly appropriate function of a public school education to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive terms in public discourse.” ” While the Court had found that “F**k the Draft” was protected for adults in Cohen v. Grandville Cent. 2d 1043, 1057 (2d Cir.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

That ruling included Henry and Andrew. In June 2016, five months after the Supreme Court ruling, Andrew became the first Louisiana “juvenile” inmate to be released on parole. In November 2021, more than five years after the Supreme Court ruling, Henry was also released on parole. He had served 19 years.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

The Wisconsin Supreme Courts ruling defies this principle by penalizing Catholic Charities because of the way that it is organized, the group insists. The Trump administration filed a friend of the court brief supporting Catholic Charities , noting that the Wisconsin law mirrors and implements a federal unemployment tax law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Share For obvious reasons, the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to grant certiorari in a pair of cases challenging race-based affirmative action in higher education drew major headlines. Less well noticed was a curious procedural feature of the second case, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the courts decision not to hear the Virginia case, in an opinion joined by Justice Clarence Thomas. The trial court agreed and dismissed the charges, but the Hawaii Supreme Court reinstated them, calling the analysis in Bruen fuzzy and backward looking.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2025

The lower court ruled that such funding of a religious school is unconstitutional. Before the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Oklahoma Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, prevailed in arguing that the charter school board violated state law, the Oklahoma Constitution, and the U.S. Here is the lower court decision: St.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The case presented here provides yet another compelling example of how Moroccan courts interpret and apply the HCCH 1980 Child Abduction Convention in a manner consistent with Moroccos international obligations. Although the Supreme Courts ruling was issued over a year ago ( Ruling No.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2025

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a Catholic virtual charter schools bid to become the nations first religious charter school. But the states attorney general counters that a ruling in favor of the Catholic school could upend the charter-school system nationwide.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

And I had their ear, explaining Supreme Court decisions on a regular basis over many years. In June, the court ruled in R.G. & In the decade following the landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education , de facto school segregation persisted in school districts across the country. EEOC that it does.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2025

The state supreme court agreed to do so. Isidore, the state court ruled, is a public school and therefore required under state law to be non-religious. In Carson , she noted, the Supreme Court ruled that a state can opt to provide a strictly secular education in its public schools.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2025

When confronted with a straightforward question about the start of the Supreme Court term (Question #2), it included a reference to 28 U.S.C. 2, the federal law that directs the court to begin its term every year on the first Monday in October. And yet, its all relative Sometimes, however, 4os graphomania works to its advantage.

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JURIST

AUGUST 28, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday stayed a lower court decision to block Florida laws that ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restrict such healthcare for transgender adults. There are 642 bills in 2024 that block transgender healthcare, education and legal recognition.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Under the Endangered Species Act, the court vacated the FWS’s biological opinion because the incidental take statement lacked “the requisite specificity of mitigation measures for the polar bear” and because the take finding for the polar bear was arbitrary and capricious. Minnesota v. American Petroleum Institute , No. 0:20-cv-01636 (D.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 10, 2024

Trump, and conflicting signals on issues related to firearms and abortion, leading to a series of impactful decisions. Here are some of the most buzzworthy decisions and their far-reaching effects. United States , the Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald J. Presidential Immunity In Trump v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed, ruling that the 50% tariff was part of an ongoing plan of action that Trump had properly initiated earlier. In that case, the non-profit petitioner asks the justices to overrule precedent allowing institutions of higher education to use race as a factor in admissions.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

Another recurring theme is the courts willingness to engage directly with controversial issues, such as in Vota v. Ludlow School Committee , where civil rights intersected with educational policies. Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

They contended that it would seem to follow from Apprendi that a jury must find any facts necessary to support a (nonzero) restitution order, and they suggested that the court should take up a lower court ruling to the contrary. Judicial factfinding for restitution Under Apprendi v. Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.)

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The defendants include President Donald Trump and Denise Carter, the Secretary of the Department of Education (DOE). 43(c)(2) of the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure since Biden and his administration have left office. 43(c)(2) of the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure since Biden and his administration have left office.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2025

Talevski , the court ruled (by a vote of 7-2) that nursing-home residents could use federal civil rights laws to enforce two provisions of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act that clearly granted individual rights. Two years ago, in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Ind.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

This week, we highlight a number of those petitions the justices are set to consider, seeking review of lower court decisions on student-loan forgiveness, the constitutionality of federal agencies, and more. Student-loan forgiveness Another 5th Circuit ruling led to the governments petition in Department of Education v.

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