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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JURIST

JUNE 10, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court decision to block enforcement of a Missouri law that would place tight restrictions on access to abortion. The first bans abortion after eight weeks, with an exception in the case of a medical emergency but not in cases of rape or incest.

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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.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The court further noted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s “puzzling” rejection of “natural immunity” as a reasonable alternative to the vaccine among the reasons for issuing the injunction. The injunction follows a Missouri district court decision to block the mandate in 10 states that was granted Monday.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. In effect, this means that nearly 60 million Americans live in states where the courts offer absolute immunity to federal officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. Read it here. He’s an attorney licensed to practice in California since 2011.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Jordan is a third-year law student at the University of Missouri and a registered patent agent. Guest Post by Jordan Duenckel. He has an extensive background in chemistry, food science, and viticulture. Article III standing remains a hot topic at all levels of federal litigation and across many different areas of law. of Wildlife , 504 U.S.

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Law 360

JUNE 26, 2024

Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to reverse a Fifth Circuit order prohibiting the Biden administration from joining with social media platforms to fight misinformation leaves an important First Amendment question unanswered and left Missouri's attorney general promising a continuing fight against what he called a "censorship regime."

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Texas and Missouri, which sued to keep the program in place, argue the policy has helped reduce the flow of people into the U.S. The program resumed in December, 2021, after President Biden suspended it on his first day in office and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended it in June 2021. at the southern border.

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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. 15 and Jan.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Court first addressed the threshold issue of standing, concluding that at least Missouri had the right to challenge the student loan forgiveness program. MOHELA could no longer service those closed accounts, costing it, by Missouri’s estimate, $44 million a year in fees…The plan’s harm to MOHELA is also a harm to Missouri.”

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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. In reviewing the Veterans Court decision, the U.S.

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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. Sound familiar?

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JURIST

JULY 20, 2024

Attorney General of Missouri Andrew Bailey stated , “We can’t let Joe Biden saddle working Missouri families with Ivy League debt. Attorney General of Missouri Andrew Bailey stated , “We can’t let Joe Biden saddle working Missouri families with Ivy League debt.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea from Missouri to block New York from imposing a gag order and sentencing former President Donald Trump in his criminal proceedings there until after the 2024 elections. Missouri has also not shown, James continued, that New York is causing it any harm.

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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. It required approval from all four states to move forward.

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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

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2021

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. Louis, Missouri , 20-391. Louis, Missouri , 20-391. City of St. Stay safe !

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

It was in response to the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. In that case, the court ruled that the government could take someone’s property for private economic development under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Claus, saying it qualified as a “public use.” New London.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. The federal district court for the District of Montana is to consider these issues on remand. The court also held that these claims were not ripe.

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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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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. Missouri v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

19 conferences) Missouri Dept. relisted after the Jan. 12 and Jan. of Corrections v. Finney , 23-203 Issues : (1) Whether the 14th Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors; (2) whether a violation under Batson v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. Missouri v. 20-1530 (U.S. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. 20-1531 (U.S. Idaho, filed Apr. Biden , No. 4:21-cv-00287 (E.D. May 3, 2021). 21-cv-971 (D.D.C.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Investors who want the flexibility to consider all relevant risks to their investments have challenged these rules and laws in court, and, in both state and federal cases, the effort has succeeded. Recent Victories The decision from Missouri, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association [ (SIFMA) ] v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

court decisions finding antitrust violations in connection with climate pledges. Several of the AGs participating in the NZBA Investigation have also taken steps in their home states to boycott certain of the financial institutions they are now investigating. And in fact, a recent Sierra Club report analyzing U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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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. Missouri v. Biden , No. 4:21-cv-00287 (E.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

27, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court decision that allowed Trump to appear on the state’s primary ballot. As in Minnesota, the lower court’s ruling does not foreclose a new challenge to Trump’s appearance on the general election ballot. And on Dec.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. Casey, they argue, “does not represent long-settled doctrine, rests on a foundation of flawed judicial reasoning, and boasts no traditional reliance interests.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Missouri v. Youth Petitioners Asked Washington High Court to Review Dismissal of Climate Change-Based Constitutional Challenge to State Policies. Air Force , No. 1:21-cv-00634 (D.D.C., States Challenged Executive Order on Social Cost of Carbon. Biden , No. 4:21-cv-00287 (E.D. filed Mar.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Several court decisions ruled against Trump on the merits. In addition to the merits issues at stake, the administration also urges the court to dismiss the cases because of standing, claiming plaintiffs lack the type of “injury” required by standing precedent.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

Missouri claimed to be the first to declare all abortion as unlawful except for medical emergencies. Our post-Roe world will not be written by Congress with the proposed federalization of Roe or another 50 years of conflicting court decisions. Twenty-seven states have protections for abortion that are expected to continue.

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