The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

“If First Amendment standards are not rigorously honored and enforced because of our collective societal phobia about the perceived dangerousness of social media, authority figures will be in a position to silence their critics on the very medium that most equalizes the power disparity between the governors and the governed.”.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. It asked the court to hold that the policy was void due to the alleged misrepresentations by Raiders with respect to the fire extinguishers. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether to revisit Hardison ’s more-than-de-minimis-cost test. Postal Service in Pennsylvania. The trial court ruled for the Postal Service under Hardison , and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit affirmed.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In an opinion joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Rehnquist set out his view that the state court’s recount conflicted with the deadlines set by the state legislature and thus violated the legislature’s authority under the Article II electors clause. And in Rucho v.

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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. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. In 2019, in Rucho v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Commonwealth Court found that Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state initiative with the goal of reducing CO2 emissions from power plants via carbon permits was unconstitutional. Pennsylvania’s participation in RGGI was promulgated by the DEP and EQB.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. European Court of Human Rights). Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash. 19-1230 (D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a lower-court ruling in a Pennsylvania election dispute that the losing candidate conceded three and a half months ago. Tuesday’s brief order granted a request by David Ritter, a candidate in a 2021 race for a judgeship in a local Pennsylvania court. McAllister.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Instead, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld “general jurisdiction” over Cooper on the ground that Cooper, by registering as a foreign corporation in Georgia, had consented to suit in Georgia as a condition of doing business in the state. The government has filed a confession of error, agreeing the offense does not qualify.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc., Last February, U.S.

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JUNE 10, 2021

According to Bloomberg, “The court-supervised restructuring allows the business to keep operating, and thus avoid the calamitous and sometimes tearful impact on brides that often accompanies the collapse of wedding retailers.”. The expansion took “a heavy financial toll” and significantly increased operating expenses, court papers stated.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 3-2 decision that the Commonwealth Court, an intermediate appellate court, must determine whether Medicaid should cover the cost of abortion procedures. In 1985, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the law in Fischer v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in the latest chapter of the justices efforts to lay out rules for personal jurisdiction whether courts have the power to hear a case against certain defendants. The Supreme Court sent the dispute back to the lower courts for another look in light of the new law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

John Bailey, a police sergeant in Pennsylvania, was among the first to tap Harpster and Adams for help after learning about their technique from the FBI. But when prosecutors cross the line and intentionally circumvent court rules for evidence standards, he said, that’s cause for concern. The FBI is corrupt,” he wrote once.

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JURIST

MAY 3, 2023

The Pennsylvania House passed a bill Tuesday that would ban discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression in employment and housing. Clayton County , the United States Supreme Court ruled that an employer cannot discriminate against an individual because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2021

Share In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. In the internet era, in which cellphones and social media are omnipresent and many schools and parents worry about cyberbullying, the court’s ruling in Mahanoy Area School District v. A federal district court agreed, and the U.S. The views of other groups.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The district court ruled that Sundance had waived its right to arbitration by not making it earlier. That case involves whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating car manufacturers’ post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emissions systems. Pennsylvania , 20-7805. 15, and Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2021

Hemphill’s case was the only new addition to the court’s docket for next fall. The justices also asked the federal government for its views in Gannett Co. Nearly three months after Inauguration Day, the justices vacated a ruling by the U.S. Quatrone , involving the pleading standard for employee benefits cases.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The 2021 Congressional Plan is unconstitutional and subverts the will of those governed.” This is the first time that a congressional map has been thrown out in the history of the state.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. After leaving her position in New York state government, she taught at Fordham University School of Law until her retirement in 2011.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

The case had been on hold for nearly a year, waiting for the court to issue its ruling in Allen v. On June 8, a divided court ruled that the map drawn by Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2025

This week, we highlight petitions asking the court to consider, among other things, whether to overturn a ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that struck down a state law requiring minors under the age of 18 to get consent from their parents before obtaining an abortion. Slaybaugh v. Wye Oak Technology, Inc. Urias-Orellana v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The court faced but did not decide the issue of whether to overrule Smith in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; a similar question was presented in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis , but when the court granted review in that case, it revised the question presented to avoid that issue.) That brings us to Perez v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” She blamed the kid as “old enough to … follow the rules.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Sekulow urged the court to take up the case quickly “to prevent the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision from having an irreparable effect on the electoral process.” He indicated that he was “prepared to abide by whatever expedited processes this Court may set.” Constitution from holding “any office. And on Dec.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

Laurence Tribe declared, “This guy was inciting not just imminent lawless action, but the violent decapitation of a coordinate branch of the government, preventing this peaceful transition of power and putting a violent mob into the Capitol while he cheered them on.”. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” So what happened?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2021

A pair of conservative advocacy groups went to federal court, arguing that the policy violates the First Amendment, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled for the attorney general’s office. The groups then came to the Supreme Court, which asked the federal government for its views last year.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Instead, O’Connor applied for a job with the San Mateo County government, where she agreed to work for free until the office could find funding for her. In his memoir, the late Justice John Paul Stevens reported that he believed the court would use the Pennsylvania case as an opportunity to overrule Roe v.

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