Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Facts of the Case Robert Mallory worked for Norfolk Southern as a freight-car mechanic for nearly 20 years, first in Ohio, then in Virginia. After he left the company, Mallory moved to Pennsylvania for a period before returning to Virginia.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Image from Supreme Court Petition. City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Now the Court has accepted a different parody case involving Jack Daniels where the company is suing the maker of dog chew toys. The case is Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

The state courts in Florida and Connecticut have become more likely to enforce in recent years. This means that the federal courts are free to adopt their own view of whether a clause is unreasonable or contrary to public policy without considering prior state court decisions. They apply federal common law.

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HowAppealing

MAY 19, 2022

“Ohio won’t pass abortion ban until after U.S. Supreme Court decision”: Jessie Balmert of The Cincinnati Enquirer has this report.

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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). Bird Groups Sent Notice of Violations in Connection with Ohio Wind Turbine Project.

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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2021

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear the case involving the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Luke Stewart, a Black driver who was killed by a white police officer in Euclid, Ohio, leaving in place an appeals court decision that his family can’t sue the city or the officer, reports the Associated Press.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In a case that prompted satirical news outlet The Onion to file its first-ever amicus brief in the Supreme Court, an Ohio man sued police for violating his constitutional rights when they arrested him for creating a Facebook page parodying the local police department. City of Parma, Ohio. Novak was acquitted at trial.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ohio lawmakers have introduced new anti-abortion bill.

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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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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Supreme Court will hear a case with potentially sweeping implications for discrimination cases. Ohio Department of Youth Service involves an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claims she was discriminated against for being straight as less-qualified LGBT colleagues in Ohio’s youth corrections system were promoted.

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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. Ohio and Miranda v. This is the final round of the Big Dance, and it’s time to vote.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit exceeded its powers under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in concluding that every fairminded jurist would agree that the Ohio courts violated the Constitution in refusing to bar testimony from a victim of an attempted murder identifying her attacker. Jacobsen v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

This was a man who was born enslaved, became a renowned horseracing pioneer, made a fortune in the Gold Rush, brought American thoroughbreds to compete in England, and then emerged as the leading African American politician in the most politically important state, Ohio. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. Then 43, he had spent most of his career with the Moraine, Ohio, police department. In one case, Harpster listened to an Ohio mother’s desperate call for help and then wrote back, simply, “Call me. Harpster was rapt.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2025

A series of Supreme Court decisions have weighed in on the 1971 laws campaign-spending rules. Valeo , the court struck down the limits on independent expenditures but generally upheld the limits on contributions. In its landmark 1976 ruling in Buckley v. The Republican Party makes two arguments in favor of overruling.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2025

If the lower courts decision allowing RJR Vapors case to go forward stands, the FDA says, other manufacturers will also try to get around the restrictions that federal law imposes on where such challenges can be filed. Although the dispute may seem like a technical one, the FDA contends that the stakes are high.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. The storm of secret subpoenas also seems to run against the thrust of recent Supreme Court decision, Trump v. With those words , House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) 6 riot in Congress.

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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. Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.)

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The case comes two years after the Supreme Courts decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Ames began work in 2004 as an executive secretary at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, which supervises the confinement and rehabilitation of children and teenagers who commit felonies.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit exceeded its powers under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in concluding that every fairminded jurist would agree that the Ohio courts violated the Constitution in refusing to bar testimony from a victim of an attempted murder identifying her attacker. Relisted after the Jan.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ohio was the biggest mistake made during the most liberal era in Supreme Court history, and why the concept of policing in a democracy has been struggling to regain its footing ever since. Is that a key to reinforcing the authority of Supreme Court decisions, or maybe will be in the future? CHEMERINSKY: Terry v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Ohio , where the Supreme Court stressed that even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. She added that there would be no acceptance of court decisions to the contrary: “We’re looking for a guilty verdict. Trump’s Jan. If we don’t, we cannot go away.”.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Missouri Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which blocks former President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan from taking effect. The plaintiffs in the case are the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

The justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for the 2023-24 term, but they did call for the views of the Biden administration in one case: Ohio v. There is no deadline for the Biden administration to file its brief.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

In another environmental case, Ohio v. This happened in five other cases making six of the 30 total 5-4 decisions between OT 2020 and OT 2023 or 20% of the time. Empire Health Foundation (2021) and Ohio v. EPA (2023), the Court interpreted federal regulations, such as Medicare reimbursement and environmental rules.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

This week, we highlight a number of those petitions the justices are set to consider, seeking review of lower court decisions on student-loan forgiveness, the constitutionality of federal agencies, and more. It is also the next-to-last conference before President-elect Donald Trumps inauguration on Jan.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The court rejected CBD’s contention that DOI should undertake a specific search of Trump transition team records but directed DOI to clarify the extent to which its searches encompassed and identified correspondence between DOI and the transition team, or to expand its search to include such records. Center for Biological Diversity v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

While I am a critic of Trump’s speech and actions on that day, I still believe that the the court is completely wrong on the First Amendment. We need to put this insidious legal theory to rest with the finality and clarity of a Supreme Court decision. In Brandenburg v. I hope that she does. Griswald

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