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. Even the victim’s wife agreed, underscoring that Jones, like other youth, is indeed redeemable and can work towards atoning for his heinous acts.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

In April 2022, Vanda Pharmaceuticals filed a complaint in the Maryland Federal District Court to challenge CMS’ definition on Administrative Procedure Act (APA) grounds. We previously blogged on the district court’s decision last year. Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MJM-22-977 (Dist.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Based on a 1963 Supreme Court decision, Brady vs. Maryland , prosecutors have a constitutional duty to give defense attorneys evidence that could cast doubt on a defendant’s guilt or reduce a potential sentence, including information that could diminish the credibility of prosecution witnesses.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Public officials in Maine, Maryland, Michigan and California have already proposed or passed measures to curb what they say is a rise in targeted harassment related to demonstrations against public vaccination efforts and pandemic rules, reports the Wall Street Journal. limiting hours for protests aimed at a particular home.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. 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.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Six states have enacted contract pharmacy protections into law: Kansas , Maryland , Mississippi , and West Virginia in 2024, Louisiana in 2023, and Arkansas in 2021. Court decision, may be rendered inconsequential. Bills are pending in other states, including Missouri and New York.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s a little surprising the court let stand a federal court decision invalidating a state statute on constitutional grounds, but animal-rights groups defending that decision argued persuasively that state statutes are in a state of flux and it would be premature for the justices to take up the case now.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Koblitz — You know a court decision is going to be worth reading when the judges compare FDA’s regulatory governance of flavored e-cigarettes to a Shakespearean gaslighting. FDA originally set the PMTA deadline as August 8, 2022, but a district court in Maryland ordered FDA to shorten it. By David B.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2012

What they are really doing is trying to avoid the need to reveal the identity of their contributors, following a US District Court decision in March. This is is the provision that led to the US District Court decision at issue. " Maryland Rep. " As explained below, these claims are incorrect.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. Maryland and Napue v. Below we briefly discuss those 14 cases. So perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the relisted petitions – six of them – implicate the First Amendment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But in July, Laufer asked the justices to throw out the case, and invalidate the 1st Circuit’s decision in her favor. Jackson later asked why, if the issue is going to arise again, the court shouldn’t just “wait until it comes up again.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Maryland and Napue v. The questions before the justices include: “(1) Whether the state’s suppression of the key prosecution witness’ admission that he was under the care of a psychiatrist and failure to correct that witness’ false testimony about that care and related diagnosis violate the due process of law under Brady v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Under my proposal, the mall and core federal buildings would remain the District of Columbia (as is the case in this legislation) but the remainder of the District would retrocede back to Maryland (as did the other half of the original District to Virginia). Absent retrocession, there remains only statehood. It is a recurring problem.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Best Price Stacking We previously blogged about the 4 th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in United States Ex Rel. Allergan Sales , which affirmed a lower court decision in a Federal False Claims case involving best price stacking. Sheldon, v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The case was currently pending before the Fourth Circuit after a federal district court in Maryland held that Maryland law preempted the local law. The court rejected DLNR’s argument that a 2017 Hawaii Supreme Court decision requiring environmental review for aquarium fishing only applied to fishing with fine-meshed nets.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

The court of appeals, it explained, rejected Andrews claim because, it thought, no holding of this Court established a general rule that the erroneous admission of prejudicial evidence could violate due process. That was wrong, the court concluded.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2022

The 1991 Supreme Court ruling in Payne v. Subsequent court decisions have muddied the legal waters on VIS. Tennessee upheld the admission of VIS in capital trials, but “this tension has not been adequately addressed,” Bandes writes. In Booth v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Second Circuit also distinguished the Connecticut program from a Maryland regulatory scheme that the U.S. Supreme Court determined was preempted in Hughes v. Austria’s Constitutional Court Reversed Lower Court Decision That Held Up Airport Expansion Based on Climate Change Concerns. ADDITION TO THE NON-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. Maryland : “[W]e must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.” Board of Education.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“Courts Strike Down Gun Control Measures in Two States; The rulings in Maryland and Oregon come amid a shifting legal landscape in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that has imposed new limits on gun regulation”: David W. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link. ” And Bryan P.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Glossip counters that there is a “high hurdle” to overcome the presumption that the Supreme Court can review a state court ruling on an issue of federal law. And in this case, he stresses, the state court’s decision “relied directly” on federal law – specifically, the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Brady v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

” Similarly, the report pointed to several court decisions that support the usage of the sort of surveillance programs used by the BPD. But while the courts upheld many cases involving police surveillance, the instances were specific. ” The report also noted a 2008 report commissioned by then-Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2021

The state of Arizona now seeks review at the Supreme Court. 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. Maryland , 20-101.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, by a 2-1 vote, held that conclusion was not unreasonable. Whatley argues that the Georgia Supreme Court unreasonably applied federal law when, in considering whether he was prejudiced, it failed to give weight to Supreme Court decisions holding that shackling is inherently prejudicial.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

While the Supreme Court routinely throws out lower-court decisions granting prisoners habeas relief, its fairly uncommon for the justices to summarily grant relief to habeas petitioners. Lewis , 24-473 Issue : Whether Maryland v. Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.) Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In its petition, Great Lakes claims that choice of law under federal admiralty has been utter chaos since a 1955 Supreme Court decision , made tolerable only by strict enforcement of choice-of-law clauses. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed. record requested Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Marylands handgun licensing regime, as well as a pair of cases seeking to hold oil and gas companies responsible for damage caused by climate change. The justices denied review in Maryland Shall Issue v. The court will consider the petition in Snope v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. The Minnesota Supreme Court denied petitions for further review of an appellate court decision finding all but one aspect of the environmental review for the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline project to be adequate.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

The constitutionality of assault-weapons bans On Monday, the justices turned down a challenge to Marylands gun-licensing requirement. In 2020, a group of Maryland residents, gun-rights groups, and a firearms dealer sued to challenge the ban. A federal district court rejected this challenge, and the U.S. In Snope v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

A Supreme Court decision Thursday upending a century-old New York State gun licensing restriction has been called a major blow to state gun control interventions across the country. The Court released its opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The court did not add any new cases to their docket for the 2025-26 term. It also once again did not act on several high-profile petitions for review, including a challenge to Marylands ban on military-style assault weapons and a challenge to Rhode Islands ban on large-capacity magazines.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. District Court Stayed Briefing of Motion to Remand in Annapolis’s Climate Case.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court decision temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders (“the orders”) banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at federal agencies and business that contract with the federal government.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2022

Yet, there is virtually no mention of Jackson’s position on an advisory board for the now-defunct Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Maryland. Her trial court decisions shed little light on that question, and she previously refused to discuss her philosophy.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The district court found the analysis of greenhouse gas and climate change impacts to be adequate but remanded for consideration of alternatives that did not involve leasing all nominated parcels. The conservation groups’ appeal of the district court decision is still pending, with the opening brief due on July 12. BP p.l.c. ,

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