Court Rules Georgia Statute 
JURIST
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in United States v. Because this Court held in Coker v. Georgia that the Eighth Amendment forbids a death sentence for the rape of an adult woman, respondents argue that they could not, in fact, have been sentenced to death, and therefore the statute of limitations for their crimes.
The Crime Report
JUNE 29, 2022
50 years ago today, the Supreme Court in their opinion on Furman v. Georgia halted the death penalty across the country in response to a set of capital punishment cases. Does that mean that since Furman, states have perfected the death penalty, making the process consistent and nondiscriminatory as the Court ordered?
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Trademark & Copyright Law
MAY 8, 2020
On April 27, the Supreme Court took us on a stroll down memory lane in its decision in Georgia v. The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v. Accordingly, copyright protection does not extend to annotations in the State of Georgia’s official code because of its “authors.”. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., The Background.
JURIST
MAY 26, 2021
A US federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s anti-BDS law, which prohibits state contractors from boycotting Israel, violates the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled in favor of Martin, and found that O.C.G.A. § She contended that O.C.G.A. § 50-5-85 was constitutional.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. ,
JonathanTurley
MAY 25, 2021
This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. The case was brought by journalist Abby Martin who was denied a contract as a keynote speaker at Georgia Southern University due to her support of the BDS movement. He found that: Because O.C.G.A. § O.C.G.A. § ” O.C.G.A.
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