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. This time the court’s verdict was less equivocal, though no less divided. In a 5-4 decision, it struck down mandatory death sentencing statutes. Austin Sarat.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Louisiana , the U.S. The statute tasks the Department of Education with “issuing rules, regulations, or orders of general applicability” to “effectuate” Title IX’s antidiscrimination mandate. District Courts in Louisiana and Kentucky agreed with the plaintiffs and preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the rule in the plaintiff States.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

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. And as it happens, his mother Gladys Mobley sat on the jury that convicted Granier.

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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. HB314 reinforced Alabama statute banning abortion that was never appealed after it was made unenforceable under Roe. Louisiana Gov.

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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. Superior Court extends to hearing potential jurors’ names.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. Louisiana v. Army Corps of Engineers , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For instance, the National Right to Life Committee and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation argue that the court should reject the “categorical viability line” and replace it with a new “roadmap” under which courts would consider all state interests when analyzing the constitutionality of prohibitions on pre-viability elective abortions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit affirmed , holding that because a federal agency now has the final say over how the private horse-racing authority implements the federal statute, the amended law did not impermissibly delegate authority to a private entity. In a one-paragraph order, the justices granted the authoritys request.

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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. Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant.

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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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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). Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. order setting schedule Mar.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 1, 2025

For example, the Trump administration has agreed to drop a critical environmental justice case against the petrochemical company Denka for carcinogenic air pollution from its plants in Louisianas Cancer Alley. Such actions have been, and more likely will be, challenged in court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 20-1530 (U.S. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. 20-1531 (U.S. County of Maui v.

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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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline. Oatly Group AB , No. 1:21-cv-06360 (S.D.N.Y., filed July 26, 2021).

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