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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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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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

JUNE 27, 2024

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court Poised to Allow Emergency Abortions in Idaho (Greg Stohr, Kimberly Robinson, & Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg & Bloomberg Law) Texas executes Ramiro Gonzales after failed appeals that argued he was no longer a threat nor eligible for death penalty (Dakin Andone, CNN) The Supreme Court rules for Biden (..)

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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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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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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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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The phrase no harm, no foul doesnt apply to law enforcement personnel, whether theyre patrol officers or the chief local prosecutor. And so it is here, even if this case was last reviewed by the appeals court least likely to cut cops slack : the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Heres more of the story, via Oregon Lives reporting.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law. However, in 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.)

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2025

Even worse, four states Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky rescinded their prior ratifications and a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. However, in 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. It failed to do so.

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