SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

One of those four involves an issue on which the court already is considering 11 other relisted cases: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments require the use of a 12-person jury to try defendants accused of felonies, rather than the six-person jury Florida affords for many such offenses. Florida and Moore v. We’ll know more soon.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The statute in its plain language states, criminal penalties will apply to “every person who performs or attempts to perform an abortion.” In 2017, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down a Florida law preventing medical professionals from asking patients about firearm ownership.

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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. Returning Relists.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The book combines art and academic analysis into a refreshing and creative take on major Supreme Court cases — with an added dash of “Florida weirdness” to keep things interesting. Artist and lawyer Xavier Cortada has created 10 striking paintings, each depicting a significant Supreme Court case originating in Florida.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Florida has the highest count of incarcerated people serving life without parole sentences. Report authors highlighted a recent Supreme Court decision in Canada.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system. Others – Georgia, Florida and Texas – chose a different path, retaining the punishment but guiding discretion by narrowing and specifying the class of death-eligible crimes.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Coverage of federal fraud statutes Porat v. Florida and Moore v. Texas mandate that courts deem the standard of “significantly subaverage intellectual functioning” for determining intellectual disability in Atkins v. There are six newly relisted cases this week, so I’m going to be more summary than usual in describing them.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2022

Moving on to potential blockbusters that don’t explicitly call on the court to overrule precedent. Environmental Protection Agency , 21-454 , is a long-running Clean Water Act dispute that has already been the subject of one major Supreme Court decision. Florida , 21-53. They invoke Rapanos v. relisted after the Oct.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No.

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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

On the other hand, 16 states protect access to abortion through various methods, such as state constitutional amendments and laws that protect the right to privacy, state supreme court decisions interpreting equal protection to include reproductive care, and statutes that protect access to reproductive care.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But the court declined to invalidate the entire agency for this structural flaw, instead severing the for-cause provision from the rest of its authorizing statute. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed. 17 conference) Returning Relists City of Ocala, Florida v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Avenatti came to the Supreme Court earlier this year, asking the justices to decide whether one of the statutes under which he was convicted – barring fraud that deprives someone else of “the intangible right of honest services” – is so vague that it is unconstitutional. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline.

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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). Martin County, Florida v. order setting schedule Mar. 1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

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JURIST

JULY 15, 2024

Second, he was to continue an investigation that had turned up multiple classified documents in various unsecured locations throughout Trump’s primary Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. In the summer of 2023, Smith unveiled indictments in both investigations. After careful study of this seminal issue, the answer is no.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

EPA (2024), she criticized the Courts decision to block an EPA rule without fully engaging with legal and procedural requirements, stating, The Court today enjoins the enforcement of a major Environmental Protection Agency rule without fully engaging with both the relevant law and the voluminous record. Luxshare, Ltd.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

In Minnesota, the district court granted the State of Minnesota’s motion to remand its case, which asserts state law claims under common law and consumer protection statutes. s consumer protection statute. On March 26, 2021, the court denied Exxon’s emergency motion for a temporary stay of the remand order. Georgia , No.

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