JURIST

APRIL 25, 2024

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the case concerning whether a 1986 federal law preempts Idaho’s near-total abortion ban. The Idaho statute criminalizes performing or attempting to perform an abortion unless not doing so would result in the mother’s death.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

Democratic members and advocacy groups have pushed to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. Yet, they still fell short.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled Monday a federal district court’s decision that doctors lacked standing to challenge an Arizona law banning abortion in cases of fetal abnormality. SB 1457 was passed in 2021 by a Republican-led legislature and signed into law by then-Governor Doug Ducey.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Last year, Tennessee and Kentucky were among a group of more than 20 states that enacted laws that prohibit giving transgender youths under the age of 18 medical treatment to align their appearance with their gender identity. Federal district courts in both states granted the challengers’ requests to block the laws from going into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. Thursday’s ruling means that mifepristone will continue to remain widely available in the United States, where it is used in over 60% of abortions by health care providers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court determined, moreover, that even if the plaintiffs’ claims could be construed as post-effective date claims (i.e., and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That federal law requires emergency rooms in hospitals that receive Medicaid funding to provide stabilizing treatment to patients who arrive with an emergency condition that seriously threatens their lives or health. The court dealt with a set of similar cases out of Idaho in June without reaching a conclusive decision on the federal law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Bollinger , the court divided 5-4 on upholding race admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. (On On the same day, the court ruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v. In 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger.).

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

But the court’s liberal justices pushed back sharply in their dissents. Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned that the majority’s decision would sweep expansively, so that “[i]n every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” In an opinion by Roberts on June 28 , the court – again by a vote of 6-3 – did just that.

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