SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

As is frequently the case when the court denies review in cases that have been relisted repeatedly, denial occasioned dissent, this time from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. Areli Escobar was convicted in a Texas state court of the sexual assault and murder of Biana Maldonado Hernandez and sentenced to death.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit threw out that ruling in February 2024.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In October, the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction. Oklahoma Federal Court Allowed Landowner to Proceed with NEPA Challenge of Osage Nation Oil and Gas Leases. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Bourgeois was convicted in 2004 of murdering his two-year old daughter while making a delivery to Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in Texas. The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v. Evidence at trial showed that he had beaten his daughter for a month before her death. His appeal was unsuccessful.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Texas , 21-6001.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. In their opinion, Congress specifically prohibited courts from issuing injunctions related to certain immigration laws. In United States v.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Lincoln of The Wrap reports that “ Appeals Court Rules Texas DA’s ‘Cuties’ Child Porn Charges Against Netflix to Be ‘Bad-Faith Prosecution’; 5th Circuit Court decision upholds 2022 lower court ruling.” .” Gene Maddaus of Variety has this report.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in the Biden administration’s appeal of lower-court rulings that required immigration officials to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that the administration “has twice determined is not in the interests of the United States,” reports the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In a 6-3 decision Ex parte Danny Richard Lane , the state’s highest criminal appeals court ruled that Texas’ historical doctrine of “judicial clemency” does not forgive sex offender registration. The Texas Legislature in 1991 enacted the state’s first sex offender registration program.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Share A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access for example, by requiring a government-issued identification. 1181, in June 2023.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2011

But given court decisions in this area, it would take an act of Congress to allow the FCC to allow such channeling. This question, and other questions about the political rules were discussed last week in a webinar that I conducted for the Texas Association of Broadcasters.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

marshals followed Jade Benning, a 48-year-old mother of three with jet-black hair, as she picked up her youngest son from school in Austin, Texas. But when prosecutors cross the line and intentionally circumvent court rules for evidence standards, he said, that’s cause for concern. And the FBI was right in the middle of it.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

In a brief unsigned order , the justices put on hold an order by a federal trial judge in Texas that would have barred the government from enforcing the law anywhere in the United States. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the courts decision to temporarily block the lower courts ruling.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Thus, starting in 1988 (when, as part of broader reforms to the court’s docket, Congress eliminated the ability to directly appeal to the Supreme Court district court decisions striking down state or federal statutes), the practice became all but moribund.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Texas held criminal “deviant intercourse” laws violated the 14th Amendment under rational basis review. This minimal test requires government action to have a legitimate purpose and the law in question to be rationally related to that purpose. Occasionally, “rational basis with teeth” finds laws lack even a legitimate purpose – Lawrence v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The federal court ruled resoundingly in favor of SIFMA, finding for plaintiffs on all counts. Important Decisions to Watch For Several cases that grapple further with these questions of law are fully briefed and awaiting decisions. The outcomes may impact the future of climate-related financial regulations.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2025

Beyond that, it now accurately identifies all categories of original jurisdiction cases and even provides examples, including the relatively unknown 1892 decision in United States v. 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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Found Deficiencies in Climate Change and Environmental Justice Analyses for Texas LNG Export Terminals. The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. Plaintiffs appealed the transfer decision to the 4th Federal Regional Court.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

EL Paso County , which examined Fourth Amendment protections in the context of abusive strip searches, and Texas v. These rulings illustrate the courts involvement in shaping public policy and addressing complex legal challenges in a politically and socially divided landscape. Affirmation of Lower Court Decision: 2 points.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit affirmed that ruling. A trade group of thoroughbred racehorse owners and trainers called the National Horsemens Benevolent & Protective Association filed a different challenge to the law in Texas. Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.) Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a letter to the court on March 2, the parties asked the court to defer further briefing on the U.S.-based

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The question came to the court in the case of Ryan Carter , who was a member of the Air National Guard when he underwent spine surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., A federal district court dismissed Carters claims, relying on the courts decision in Feres.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

27, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court decision that allowed Trump to appear on the state’s primary ballot. As in Minnesota, the lower court’s ruling does not foreclose a new challenge to Trump’s appearance on the general election ballot. In a ruling on Dec. And on Dec.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Ninth Circuit declined to remand with instructions for dismissal of the underlying action and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. Biden , No.

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