JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2021

Last night, the Texas Supreme Court lifted the temporary restraining order. The decision has not only exposed the Democrats to arrest but it has exposed another claim of bias against the PolitiFact, which lambasted Sen. The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Ted Cruz (R.,

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

and (2) Is eligibility a pure questions of law (based upon the claims); or does it also involve a “question of fact for the jury based upon the state of the art at the time of the patent?” Dennis Crouch & Homayoon Rafatijo, Resorbing Patent Law’s Kessler Cat into the General Law of Preclusion , 54 Akron Law Ref.

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OilandGasLawyer

JUNE 9, 2021

This bill, signed by the Governor, fixes a problem with the provisions of the Texas Business and Commerce Code that grant a security interest in oil and gas production and proceeds to secure the payor’s obligation to pay royalty owners. I have written about this problem before. SB 1259.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . Bruen, held that New York’s law requirement of a license to carry concealed weapons in public places was unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Texas Department of Public Safety , the justices will weigh in on a lawsuit brought against the department by a former state trooper who resigned from his job when the department would not provide accommodations for a respiratory condition resulting from his service as an Army reservist in Iraq. In Torres v. And in LeDure v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. Facts of the Cases The two cases before the Court, Moody 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. Department of Homeland Security agent, who pulled a gun on a Texas mechanic named Kevin Byrd , in a personal dispute.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Washington’s bipartisan redistricting commission redrew the state’s 49 legislative districts, including Legislative District 15, a semi-rural district east of Yakima, and the map was enacted into law. Washington initially defended the district’s lawfulness but later conceded that its lines were invalid. The suit now known as Trevino v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

I addressed some of those issues in a presentation earlier this month at the Texas Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention. In the Texas presentation, I covered some of the many other copyright issues that are on the horizon, many of which we have written about in the pages of this blog. webcasting and Internet radio).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). ” O.C.G.A.

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OilandGasLawyer

JULY 18, 2023

The Court’s opinion relies on two Texas Supreme Court decisions that were controversial: Natural Gas Pipeline co. Dorchester Minerals, L.P. addressing an interesting issue on adverse possession of a non-operating working interest. One justice dissented. of America v. Pool, 124 S.W.3d 3d 188 (Tex. Marshall, 342 S.W.3d

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OilandGasLawyer

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

On October 28 Judge David Jones, US Bankruptcy Court for Southern District in Houston, issued a memorandum opinion in Chesapeake Energy’s bankruptcy (Case No. 20-33233), granting Chesapeake’s motion to reject its contract to sell gas to ETC Texas Pipeline. ” As the court explained, In simple terms, Sec.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain. Williamson County, Texas. From 2012 to 2016, Hansen earned an estimated $1.8 In United States v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 9, 2021

The family court decision was reviewed by Judges Stan Pritzker, John Egan Jr., They admit that the rock was “not addressed by family court or the attorney for the child, the mother’s testimony at the hearing, as well as an exhibit admitted into evidence.” However, the mother’s home was left as the child’s residence.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Facts of the Case In 2019, Sylvia Gonzalez ran for a seat on the city council of Castle Hills, a small town in southern Texas. A private attorney tasked with leading the investigation concluded that Gonzalez had likely violated a Texas anti-tampering statute that, among other things, prohibits a person from intentionally “remov[ing].

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. Multiple States, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, argue that the common law does not apply because the abandoned proceeds of the Disputed Instruments are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Checks Act.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 6, 2024

Supreme Court upheld a city ordinance that imposes criminal penalties on homeless sleeping outside. According to the Court, the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Texas , 392 U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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 Texas federal court said that ExxonMobil’s allegations raised concerns that Healey had issued the CID in bad faith, which would preclude Younger abstention.

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JURIST

AUGUST 27, 2023

Texas District Court Judge Maria Cant ú Hexsel temporarily blocked SB 14 , which bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts children already taking gender-affirming prescription drugs, from going into effect on Friday. The case is in the District Court of Travis County, Texas.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This tit-for-tat directive against Texas SB8 is the latest of the bold moves Newsom has taken and responds directly to the Supreme Court decision last week. The law became effective at the end of August. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report from Los Angeles.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

First, as I pledged in my last post , I am only too happy to eat crow after predicting that the court would not take one-time relist Villarreal v. Contrary to the occupation you might be expecting based on her last name , Lebene Konan is a landlord who owns rental properties in Euless, Texas. She alleges that U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2025

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the courts decision, complaining that it had agreed to rewrite statutory text. Justice Samuel Alito wrote his own dissent in which he contended that his colleagues had resolved the dispute based on an issue that the lower court had not reached and the parties had not really addressed.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in. Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder in 1999 and sentenced to death.

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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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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“Fewer patients, smaller staff, an uncertain future: abortion providers await court decision on Texas law; For two months, providers have had to work in a sort of limbo as they wait to see if the new law passes the Supreme Court’s review.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Share Wednesday’s decision in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas resolves a longstanding dispute about the ability of Texas to control gambling on the lands of two of the Native American tribes that reside there. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion for the court squarely rejects that understanding.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. Clean Air Council v.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 15, 2025

“Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Texas Law Limiting Access to Pornography; The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

They alleged violation of Missouri’s antitrust and consumer-protection laws, and that defendants had been unjustly enriched, among other things. Royal Canin and Purina, the pet-food makers, removed the case to federal court, arguing that the antitrust and unjust enrichment claims implicated federal law issues.

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LPB Network

MARCH 11, 2022

This morning, the Supreme Court of Texas issued its decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. It is the latest development in the litigation over Texas’s abortion law, S.B. Supreme Court’s decisions in December (covered here), After the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Voters in Arizona and Montana can decide on constitutional right to abortion (Sejal Govindarao & Amy Beth Hanson, The Associated Press) Trial date set for man accused of attempting to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh (Jordan Fischer, WUSA9) Supreme Court decisions could determine future of clean air, water in East (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed an earlier ruling that had stopped Texas from enforcing its social media law, HB 20, which supporters see as a way to get Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media companies to stop what many on the right have long viewed as “censorship” of conservative viewpoints.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Next up is Kelly v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Florida asks Supreme Court to allow its anti-drag law to take effect (Ariane de Vogue, CNN) Bipartisan Legal Scholars Urge Supreme Court To Impose 18-Year Term Limits (Alison Durkee, Forbes) An Arizona drug case related to the 6th Amendment is headed to Supreme Court.

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2023

The study is organized by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) based at The University of Texas at Austin and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) based at the University of California San Francisco. All 50 of these instances occurred in the states with strict bans described above.

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