JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Carney issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday blocking a California law that prohibits concealed carry permit holders from carrying firearms in most public places. The case is in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Carney found that the California law violates the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A federal judge blocked a California law on Wednesday which would have required background checks for individuals seeking to buy ammunition. The judge found that the California law, known as Proposition 63, violated the US Constitution’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, we wrote about two dissenting opinions in a Supreme Court decision that highlight the debate that is underway on the principles that govern defamation liability in the United States. But would today’s Court see things the same way?

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The German government Thursday presented plans to make it easier for transgender people to legally change their first name and gender, ending the current rules which require an expert assessment and court authorization. We will finally abolish it and replace it with a modern self-determination law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The case stems from a broader federal antitrust action against Google, which South Carolina had sought to join under the doctrine of parens patriae , wherein a government can intervene to protect the interests of its population. In that case, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Google.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2023

Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 3rd year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship. To date, according to the Prosecutor General, almost 760 billion tenge has been returned to Kazakhstan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2025

Thompson used the money to make an equity contribution to the law firm where he had just become a partner, to pay off a tax bill, and to repay money that he owed a different bank, but he did not sign any paperwork for the second and third loans.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Called the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act , the proposed legislation empowers the provincial cabinet to dismiss federal laws, programs, and policies. The current Albertan government has been a regular and vocal critic of the federal government’s emission reduction targets.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2024

X’s Global Government Affairs account said that the company was “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil,” adding that no reason was provided as to why or any details given regarding the posts that allegedly violate the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But a federal appeals court ruled last year that Gutierrez does not have a legal right to sue, known as standing, to bring federal civil rights claims challenging the constitutionality of the Texas laws governing DNA testing. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in. On the one hand, Senior U.S. A divided panel of the U.S.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Federal Court of Canada delivered a decision on Thursday overturning the federal government’s order to list plastic-manufactured items (PMIs) under Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (CEPA). It will consider further arguments before deciding.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2024

The 2016 decision found contravention of Article 70(3) of the Albania Constitution that MPs “may not carry out any profit-making activity that stems from the property of the state or of local government, nor may they profit from this property.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

In 2016, the FDA issued a rule indicating that the law applies to e-cigarettes and e-liquids. Suri countered that the provision merely directs courts to determine, based on the laws structure, who is adversely affected. Along with Sotomayor, Jackson was the only other justice who appeared sympathetic to the governments position.

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JURIST

JUNE 25, 2024

Isidore contract violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which says the government “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” when it is ‘entwined with governmental policies,’ or when the government is ‘entwined in [its] management or control.'”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Human rights groups the Public Law Project, Bail for Immigration Detainees and Medical Justice Monday released a joint report calling upon the UK government to immediately end GPS electronic monitoring of immigration bailees. The tracking devices do not have an expiry date and can only be removed by court decision.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. After years of government instability, Israeli voters gave Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu an incredible comeback after being ousted last year.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases involving one of its own precedents regarding felony firearms possession. The issues in both cases involves the federal law that prohibits felons from possessing firearms, 18 USC §922(g). Decisions in both cases should come this summer. Two years ago in Rehaif v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which had thrown out David Smiths 22-year conviction and sentence for a brutal attack on Quortney Tolliver in 2016. The state trial court rejected that motion, and he was convicted. The justices denial of relief in Davis v. Smith found more success when he sought federal post-conviction relief.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor Saturday blocked the website of prominent rights and protest monitoring group OVD-Info after a court decision, the group said in a statement. The Russian government adopted the Federal Law of December 30, 2020, No. Russia has also adopted the Federal Law of July 20, 2012, No.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The nation asserts that the city lacks criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans on the tribe’s lands without express congressional authorization, as per the 2020 US Supreme Court case McGirt v. We continue to welcome government-to-government cooperation with the City of Tulsa.

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JURIST

JUNE 2, 2024

The Kansas Supreme Court held Friday that there is no fundamental right to vote in the state’s constitution in a complex ruling related three 2021 election laws concerning false representation of election officials, verification of advance ballots and limitations on their collection.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Supreme Court upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Controlled Applications, which will require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its Chinese parent company divests its interest. The Courts decision in TikTok Inc. government officials have taken steps to address national security concerns surrounding TikTok.

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JURIST

JULY 5, 2024

She added that Kara-Murza suffers from polyneuropathy as a result of two assassination attempts — a condition that should exempt him from serving a prison sentence under Russian law. Following the court decision, he was transferred over a three-week period to a high-security penal colony located in Omsk, Siberia.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

She emphasized that the justices have often read federal statutes to incorporate state-law principles that respect corporate identity, and that under those rules [i]t is long settled that separately incorporated organizations are separate legal units with distinct legal rights and responsibilities.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

US Senior District Judge David Alan Ezra granted the US Department of Justice’s request for the preliminary injunction pending a final judgment in the dispute between Texas and the US federal government. The DOJ sued pursuant to its enforcement powers in the Rivers and Harbors Act.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2023

UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Steve Barclay Thursday welcomed a High Court decision which found that the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) strike scheduled for May 2 is illegal. The decision comes only a few days after Barclay announced he would take legal action to prevent the strike.

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JURIST

MARCH 2, 2023

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Israeli citizens Wednesday participated in a “day of disruption,” a planned protest against the Israeli government’s judicial reform plans.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

In 1993, William Neilly was sentenced in Michigan state court to life without the possibility of parole for a homicide he committed as a juvenile. Because of intervening Supreme Court decisions prohibiting the imposition of no-parole life sentences for juvenile offenders, he was resentenced to a lesser sentence.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

An Idaho judge has issued a $250,000 arrest warrant for anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, the man who organized a takeover of an Oregon wildlife reserve that left one of his supporters dead, Andrew Buncombe reports for The Guardian. Bundy fell foul of the court after not attending hearings in relation to a $52.5m

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2021

Navy Captain named Kirk Waits presided over the commission before becoming the Deputy Director of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General Criminal Law Division of the Department of Defense. With the case now before the DC Circuit, the government has offered to have any of al-Tamir’s court decisions reheard by a different judge.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Each state under its national laws is empowered to restrict or limit the matters that can be referred to and resolved by arbitration. When contracting parties choose arbitration as their dispute resolution mechanism, they freely choose several different laws that would apply in case of disputes arising under the contract.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Facially, the service looked much like that offered by Aereo, which the Supreme Court determined seven years ago violated federal copyright law by retransmitting TV stations without first obtaining the consent of the copyright holders (see our article here on the Aereo Supreme Court decision).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. New Relists Escobar v.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The decision by the federal district court hinged on the determination that the CTA applies to “local” activity by corporations formed under state laws. For one thing, the government will likely file an appeal, which would also include a request for a stay on the federal district court’s order.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Share Four years ago, Congress passed the First Step Act , a bipartisan criminal-justice law that aimed to reduce overly severe sentences. Last year, the Supreme Court trimmed the scope of that law, unanimously ruling that one of its reforms does not apply to certain low-level crack-cocaine offenders. The case, Concepcion v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Last January, the Supreme Court refused to disturb an order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that temporarily allowed New York to enforce a new concealed-carry law while multiple challenges to the law proceed. But the court did not specify exactly what history courts must look to.

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