JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The US Supreme Court denied a petition to hear an appeal Tuesday concerning the exclusion of potential jurors based on the jurors’ religious beliefs in a Missouri sex discrimination case. The post US Supreme Court declines to hear Missouri case excluding jurors based on religious beliefs appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

Dodge (George Washington University Law School) and first published on Transnational Litigation Blog. The Eighth Circuit had previously held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) barred most of Missouris claims but that the hoarding claim fell within the acts commercial activity exception. This article was written by Prof.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Share For the second time in less than a week, the Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Kevin Johnson, paving the way for Missouri to carry out his lethal injection on Tuesday night. Johnson returned to the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, once again asking the justices to stay his execution.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Our justice system is supposed to protect such people by assigning them a “legal guardian” —a surrogate decision-maker who acts under the authority of the probate court or of state laws governing guardianships. The lack of training is particularly telling in Missouri. Abuse of Power. in continuing education courses.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

Wullschleger and Brewer brought a putative class action in Missouri state court, alleging that the “prescription” designation is misleading because the Food and Drug Administration never evaluated the product, and that they were injured by the food’s higher price. The district court refused, but the U.S. Last up is Bufkin v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

(The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Missouri that such shackling practices violate a defendant’s due process rights.) The answer to that question turned on the relationship between a Supreme Court decision and a congressional statute. In Brecht v. In Davenport’s case, the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at ASU Law. New London.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Three years before Davenport’s trial, the Supreme Court held in Deck v. Missouri that shackling a criminal defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates a defendant’s due process rights unless the state can demonstrate a “special need” to justify the shackling.

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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? The owner later took Scott back to Missouri, a slave state. His case ended up before the Supreme Court, which issued a 7–2 decision against Scott. Supreme Court.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

“The HEROES Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’” provisions of the student aid laws, “but does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Reeves , 20-1084 , is the latest state-on-top petition in a habeas case alleging that a federal habeas court failed to defer to a state court decision affirming a criminal conviction, as required by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Louis, Missouri , 20-391. While cases from the U.S. Returning Relists.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2022

The bill is scheduled to take effect this summer when the Oklahoma legislature adjourns, but its future will probably hinge on a Supreme Court decision expected this summer, when the justices will rule on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in a case that could overturn or significantly roll back Roe v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First proposed in 2014, the 780-mile transmission line is intended to transport electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas to customers in Indiana, passing through Missouri and Illinois along the way. Significant support for these actions was provided in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden signed into law in August.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 21, 2024

Louis, Missouri , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must show that the transfer brought about some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment, but that harm need not be significant. City of St.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Missouri , 603 U. Supreme Court held that two States and five individual social-media users who sued dozens of Executive Branch officials and agencies, alleging that the Government pressured the platforms to censor their speech in violation of the First Amendment, lacked Article III standing to bring their suits. In Murthy v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of Make it sing!”. I was wrong.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

Walters , 20-1143 , involves a very specific question of arbitration law. Because the Supreme Court has in recent months summarily overturned appellate court decisions twice in habeas cases (including one other case from the 9th Circuit), this petition is doubtless getting the court’s careful attention. Badgerow v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The AGs posit that the NZBA emissions reduction goals amount to a concerted effort to block fossil fuel companies from receiving financial services, and assert that the banks’ participation in the NZBA may run afoul of consumer protection and antitrust laws. Importantly, antitrust law distinguishes between concerted and independent action.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2025

The Oklahoma charter school board that approved the Catholic schools application tells the justices that a state supreme court ruling invalidating its contract with the school violates the Constitution and harms lower-income families. The state supreme court granted that request. It concluded that St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Since 2021, more than 30 rules, guidelines, boycotts and laws have been passed by various states to thwart ESG goals and bolster industries such as fossil fuels and firearms. Recent Victories The decision from Missouri, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association [ (SIFMA) ] 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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. 1 in support of that law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

Under Missouri law, Doe was required to obtain written permission from at least one parent before obtaining an abortion. But the law also allows minors to bypass that requirement by going to court, which can grant permission after holding a hearing. Both a federal district court in Missouri and the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition , where she sided with Chief Justice John Roberts and the Courts liberal bloc to reject former President Donald Trumps attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid, has ignited a firestorm of criticism from the MAGA movement and right-wing commentators. In Becerra v. Texas (2021) and Ohio v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 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 cities also have filed a motion to amend their complaints to withdraw federal common law public nuisance claims that they added after the district court denied remand.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 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. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A state administrative law judge agreed that Greene’s “heated rhetoric may well have contributed to the environment that ultimately led to” the attack on the Capitol, but he concluded that she had not engaged in an insurrection. Trump will remain on the ballot if the Supreme Court agrees with any of these arguments. And on Dec.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 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. Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. 3d 849 (9th Cir.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 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 Supreme Court also noted the testimony of the defendant’s expert on nonviolent resistance “that peaceful civil disobedience is essential to combating climate change.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Ilya Somin is a professor of law at George Mason University, and author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration and Political Freedom. Several court decisions ruled against Trump on the merits. Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v.

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