The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2022

Two recent decisions by the North Carolina Supreme Court, State v. Kelliher and State v. Conner , could potentially help free people imprisoned and serving a “de facto life sentence” for crimes they committed when they were kids, reports NC Policy Watch.

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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. and North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation v. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 29, 2022

‘Medical Climate’ While the Supreme Court decision is not expected for another few months, many physicians and legal advocacy groups warn that if the justices rule in such a way that creates a “medical climate” where doctors fear incarceration for prescribing appropriate pain treatment.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

University of North Carolina , the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the college admissions programs of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Court held that the raced-based policies violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. In Students for Fair Admissions v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Reaction to the Furman decision was swift. Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system. Death penalty states worked hard to discern its meaning and to ascertain what they could do to restore capital punishment.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2024

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University , which was unfortunately not reviewed by the Supreme Court. I was discussing the Fourth Circuit case of Porter v. Now, as feared, it is being replicated by the Sixth Circuit in Gruber v. of Trustees.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled Thursday that people who are or have been in a dating relationship with a same-sex partner are equally protected against domestic violence as persons in opposite-sex relationships placed in a similar situation. While relying on the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2022

North Carolina reproductive rights groups Monday filed a motion seeking to temporarily enjoin a ban on advanced healthcare professionals providing medication abortions. The motion alleges that clinics in North Carolina have expanded service availability from one day per week to three days per week since Roe was overturned.

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2023

The report first provides a comprehensive display of how states have changed their abortion policies since June 2022 when the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. The report comes as abortion bans are being struck down in many states, including Nebraska , North Carolina , and South Carolina. Wade precedent.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

University of North Carolina , 21-707. The court earlier asked for the U.S. Moving on to potential blockbusters that don’t explicitly call on the court to overrule precedent. United States — in which a splintered majority of the Supreme Court held that the CWA does not regulate all wetlands. They invoke Rapanos v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2024

The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declined Tuesday to rehear with the full Eighth Circuit panel of judges a prior appeals court decision curtailing private organizations’ ability to sue under section two of the Voting Rights Act for alleged racial gerrymandering in redistricting decisions.

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HowAppealing

JULY 11, 2022

“How an upcoming Supreme Court case could upend 2024 election laws, lawsuits; At issue in the case out of North Carolina is whether rules for federal elections set by state legislatures can be reviewed by state courts; But a decision in the case could have far greater impacts”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Share For obvious reasons, the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to grant certiorari in a pair of cases challenging race-based affirmative action in higher education drew major headlines. University of North Carolina. Less well noticed was a curious procedural feature of the second case, Students for Fair Admissions v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

And I had their ear, explaining Supreme Court decisions on a regular basis over many years. Darius Swann helped transform the promise of Brown into a court-enforced mandate. The three television networks had enormous influence. Millions of Americans would time their day to be home for the evening news.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a clash over whether a North Carolina-based company can challenge the Food and Drug Administrations denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana. The company, R.J.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2025

However, for Jackson, it was immaterial since she was allowed to vote in the sister case involving the University of North Carolina. Here is the lower court decision: St. It is reminiscent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s recusal in the Harvard affirmative action case due to herclose ties to that institution.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. Roberts agreed that the court did have the power to decide the case on the merits.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 31, 2024

Supreme Court will review a Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot on grounds he violated section 3 of the federal Constitution’s 14th amendment by engaging in insurrection. Combined, the seven amici have almost 100 years of state supreme court experience.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. 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.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Two prominent voting rights advocacy groups sued Republican state leadership in North Carolina over the state’s redistricting plans. The Republican majority redrew state legislative and congressional districts in October, which Common Cause says was to “severely diminish the voting power of Black voters in North Carolina.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The case concerns North Carolina’s congressional district map, created by the Republican-controlled legislature last year. North Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the map as an unconstitutional gerrymander, and Republican lawmakers appealed to the US Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2021

Theodore Shaw, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina and former leader of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, told the subcommittee that “the fact-findings that the chief justice made, or purported to make, in [his majority opinion in] Shelby County were wrong.” The broader question was framed by Sen.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed, ruling that the 50% tariff was part of an ongoing plan of action that Trump had properly initiated earlier. The non-profit has now also filed a petition in a challenge to the University of North Carolina that it hopes can serve as a companion to the Harvard case.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Harper arose from a challenge to a new congressional map adopted by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature in early November 2021. The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the map after finding that it was a partisan gerrymander in violation of the North Carolina constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

University of North Carolina. The last time the court dealt with the issue of race in admissions was 2016 in Fisher v. The court upheld the use of race in the admissions process of the University of Texas at Austin by a vote of 4-3. President & Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

In interpreting state law in this area, state courts may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures by Article I, Section 4, of the Federal Constitution. The US Supreme Court granted certiorari and heard oral arguments in 2022.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

Another poll at the University of North Carolina found that conservative students are 300 times more likely to self-censor themselves due to the intolerance of opposing views on our campuses. Last term’s Supreme Court decisions are just the most recent high-profile evidence for this. Heidi Li Feldman. HeidiLiFeldman. ·.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Three Republican senators – Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, and Ted Cruz of Texas – write that a precedent can be unworkable due to “a history of confusion in the lower courts, an unstable pattern of Supreme Court decisions, and a persistent lack of judicially manageable standards.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 10, 2023

We are awaiting the potential blockbuster ruling of the Supreme Court in the Harvard and North Carolina college admissions cases. After decades of conflicting and confusing rulings on the use of race as a factor for admissions, the Court could be close to rejecting the practice. For critics, that is an understatement.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I think people are aware of high-profile issues… what the Supreme Court does on abortion, gun rights, affirmative action, but my guess is that people don’t realize that there has been no Supreme Court decision since 1986, 35 years ago, about eyewitness identification. There have been some justices who have stressed it.

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