JURIST

JULY 3, 2025

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a 1849 statute that banned nearly all abortions is unenforceable. The majority held that the state legislature “impliedly repealed” the statute through its comprehensive abortion care legislation over the past 50 years.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 29, 2025

Supreme Court held that the knowing or intentional causation of injury or death, whether by act or omission, necessarily involves the use of physical force against another person within the meaning of18 U.S.C. Facts of the Case The federal statute at issue, Title 18 U.S.C. In support of its decision, the Court cited United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Next up is Kelly v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the scope of the First Amendment — specifically, whether a law forbidding clandestine recordings is overbroad and whether a state may require individuals to carry identification cards labeled “SEX OFFENDER.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

1994 to 2023 Prior to 1994, there were few states that required offenders convicted of sex offenses to register with local authorities—a registration that allows local law enforcement to monitor the location of sex offenders in their jurisdiction. The Texas Legislature in 1991 enacted the state’s first sex offender registration program.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

State governments are already responding to the Dobbs decision with new regulations banning abortion or working to reinforce protections for people seeking abortions in their states across state lines. Below is an updating guide to states with now-active legislation or trigger laws banning or criminalizing abortion. Washington Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Federal court rulings on the merits, they wrote, regardless of outcome, promote public confidence that federal elections are being conducted fairly, with integrity, and in accordance with the law. But the Court does not grant review to correct factbound errors, it emphasized and in any event, the lower courts decision was correct.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Justice Neil Gorsuch filed an opinion dissenting from the denial of cert , arguing that the court’s 1970 decision in Williams v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The question came to the court in the case of Natoya Cunningham , who was convicted by a six-person jury and sentenced to eight years in prison.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

A Supreme Court decision Thursday upending a century-old New York State gun licensing restriction has been called a major blow to state gun control interventions across the country. The Court released its opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) v. Unequal Rights.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 3, 2025

” The Pollock decision held appellate costs are among those costs that a statute says cant be assessed against a losing FEHA plaintiff unless theres a finding that the action was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless when brought, or the plaintiff continued to litigate after it clearly became so. 2021) 11 Cal.5th

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The case comes two years after the Supreme Courts decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Ames began work in 2004 as an executive secretary at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, which supervises the confinement and rehabilitation of children and teenagers who commit felonies. For her sexual orientation claim, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. Third, the court said the well-pleaded complaint rule did not bar removal. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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JURIST

JULY 15, 2024

In such politically sensitive cases, or where it would otherwise be in the public interest to do so, US law provides for the appointment of a special counsel — an independent officer who is authorized to investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute politically divisive allegations. After careful study of this seminal issue, the answer is no.

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