Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Supreme Court has agreed to consider a closely watched Louisiana redistricting dispute involving a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. The two cases, Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. In the first round of redistricting litigation, Robinson, et al v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Our nonprofit law firm, the Institute for Justice , represents her. Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. Supreme Court to overturn a decision from the 8th U.S. The public interest law firm also has offices in Minneapolis.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Carole Johnson (consolidated cases), the Court found that the conditions set by Novartis and United Therapeutics on covered entities did not violate the 340B statute, although more restrictive conditions could violate the law. This decision may encourage more state-level efforts to adopt similar laws.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law. Oil pump, ( Creative Commons ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2024

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court clears way for Louisiana congressional map with 2 Black districts (Madison Fernandez, Politico) Supreme Court upholds Louisiana redistricting plan (Nina Totenberg, NPR) Ghostwriters Try Steering Supreme Court Justices Away from Cases (Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg Law) Ketanji Brown Jackson Notes Key Question (..)

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? public seems to feel the same way. Forty-two years later, in another embarrassing moment for the High Court, a seven-justice majority ruled, in Plessy v. Supreme Court.

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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.” In Louisiana v.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

By allowing judges to ignore such considerations when sentencing a young person to die behind bars, the recent Supreme Court decision promises to further inequity. Since 2012, Louisiana has sentenced 57 percent of eligible juvenile offenders to life without parole compared to fewer than 2 percent in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. Harlan also joined a unanimous court in 1889 in rejecting a challenge to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The back story.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For a time, that decision stopped the death penalty in its tracks and offered a stinging critique of its unfairness. Yet it left the door open for states to implement or reform their own laws – and some chose to preserve capital punishment. Reaction to the Furman decision was swift. The Furman Framework. Austin Sarat.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Thirty-six years passed between Williams’ 1982 crime and his 2018 resentencing to life imprisonment, plus 60 years, after a court decision vacated his death sentence. Some of the victims were law enforcement officers. Billy Sinclair spent 40 years in the Louisiana prison system, six of which were on death row.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. . … Make it sing!”.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2023

I spent more than 40 years in the Louisiana penal system—from December 1965 to April 2006. I was transferred from the “parish jail” to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in November 1966. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case. I know a thing or two about solitary confinement.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Their cases are about the failure of justice in the Louisiana criminal justice system. I know Louisiana justice. Both were committed to the Louisiana prison system with life sentences. Henry was committed to the Louisiana State Penitentiary when the prison—more commonly known as Angola—was the “bloodiest prison in America.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts.He is currently working on a book on the American common law tradition. He agreed to meet with me to discuss the ideas in a law review article I had written about his judicial philosophy.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

Lujan Grisham signed the order in response to the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. The day the ruling came down, Lujan Grisham put out a statement explaining how New Mexico prepared in anticipation of the decision. In 2021 Lujan Grisham repealed New Mexico’s trigger law, which would have banned abortion in the state.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

That is the majority rule among the federal courts of appeals. The court may soon decide to answer that question. Amant, Louisiana. The trial court admitted evidence that the government had knowingly failed to disclose Gladys Mobley’s connection and denied the state’s motion to dismiss Granier’s petition.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Louisiana , the U.S. District Courts in Louisiana and Kentucky agreed with the plaintiffs and preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the rule in the plaintiff States. In Department of Education v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment. The court also relied on Rahimi and Bruen to support their opinion.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana. If the lower courts decision allowing RJR Vapors case to go forward stands, the FDA says, other manufacturers will also try to get around the restrictions that federal law imposes on where such challenges can be filed. The company, R.J.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2025

Share In 2022, the Louisiana legislature adopted a congressional map that included only one majority-Black district among the six allotted to the state, though a third of the states population is Black. On Monday, the Supreme Court will take up the latest stage in the struggle over Louisianas congressional map.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Three terms ago in Seila Law v. The lenders filed a conditional cross-petition arguing that if the court takes the CFPB’s petition, it should take two other issues that might also invalidate the rule. LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Here is a full list of the cases set for argument during the March argument session: Louisiana v. Callais ) (March 24) A challenge to a lower courts decision to strike down a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. PLO ) (April 1) Whether a 2019 law that seeks to give U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

The role of the Supreme Court has come under heavy fire in recent years as it, like every other institution of government, has become increasingly divided along political lines. The Supreme Court takes on about 60 cases that undergo the full, robust process in a typical year. Louisiana v. Earlier this month, the Louisiana v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Instead, they contended, he supplied the guns that his fellow gang members used to commit the crimes, and under a Texas law known as the “law of parties” he could face the same punishment that the shooters faced: death. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Twelve governors write similarly that the court’s abortion precedent represents an “intrusion into the sovereign sphere of the States.” 1 in support of that law.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2023

President Trump in December 2020 pardoned his son-in-law, Jared Kushner’s father , and two of his closest political operatives, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, and in January 2021 on the day before leaving office he pardoned dozens of more longtime associates and advisors.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. DEA , where the court upheld the DEAs denial of psilocybin use under the Controlled Substances Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. A group of states brought suit in a federal district court in Kentucky, challenging the constitutionality of the HISA and its funding mechanism. The en banc 4th Circuit upheld the law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 30, 2025

We have seen the freezing or termination of federal grants and other financial assistance, executive orders seeking to usurp state and local authority, the initiation of extensive deregulatory efforts, threats to green banks and nonprofit organizations, and significant developments in federal courts.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

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. She also was persuaded that Congress had ratified the lower appellate court decisions holding that there was a narrower scope of review. and non-U.S.

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