Above The Law

JULY 26, 2024

Ohio Supreme Court Rules "Boneless" Means Expect Bones Actually: They also can't differentiate between glorified chicken nuggets and fish fillets. The post This Is Why People Hate Lawyers — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Keep Your Eyes On Those Clerkships!

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A US federal court on Wednesday partially blocked enforcement of an Alabama law criminalizing absentee ballot assistance. The court sided with a coalition of plaintiffs who argued the law would violate the rights of disabled, blind, and low-literacy voters. The judge enjoined several sections of Senate Bill 1 (SB1).

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ohio Supreme Court rules that "business interruption insurance" isn't so much "insurance" for "business interruptions." Supreme Court will return to announcing opinions live from the bench. Supreme Court will return to announcing opinions live from the bench. Bloomberg Law ]. Washington Post ].

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2024

” The Ohio Supreme Court just ruled that selling a boneless chicken dish does not mean that it is boneless because it is referring to a “cooking style not a guarantee.” The Ohio Supreme Court just issued a ruling amplifying that rule in Berkheimer v. 2019-Ohio-2401, ¶ 67 (DeWine, J.,

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2022

Some jurisdictions establish a more bright-line rule requiring notice to the organization before communication with clients. For instance, Ohio Supreme Court Ethics Op. Rule of Prof. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Nevertheless, ABA Formal Ethics Op. Conduct 4-5.8(c)(1)

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The court is asked to consider whether an unnamed law firm specializing in international tax was allowed to withhold documents in a grand jury proceeding on the basis of attorney-client privilege. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. Laws, rules, regulations, and opinions vary by jurisdiction. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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The Crime Report

MAY 26, 2022

Tuesday’s mass shooting may affect the timing of a key Supreme Court ruling should a justice want to reference it in their opinion, but the justices aren’t likely to delay the release due to optics, Bloomberg News reports. . The Court has signaled it will soon limit state and local governments’ ability to enact gun control measures.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

The use of fines and fees to generate revenue for local justice systems constitutes a “predatory” relationship between law enforcement and citizens that violates the due process protections of the Constitution, according to a Tennessee Law Review paper. Supreme Court Rulings.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins struck down Ohio’s restrictive abortion ban on Thursday, citing the 2023 voter-approved Reproductive Freedom Amendment that protects the right to abortion under the state constitution. ” Judge Jenkins, reflecting on the amendment, remarked, “Ohio voters have spoken.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar? The story appears far from over, though.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. The Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act. 6th anniversary.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some trademark fun, looking at how law and trademarks can collide. And now, back to the law. The insurance company thought it was no quacking matter and filed a lawsuit in an Ohio district court. Register here today! One Quacky Dispute.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. The circuit split has increased the possibility of a Supreme Court review.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The Ohio Court of Appeals for the First District Friday rejected the state of Ohio’s request to remove an injunction against its anti-abortion law. The court rejected the claim on jurisdictional grounds. The results of the litigation, in both Ohio and in other states, remains to be seen.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Friday that licensed physicians can legally perform abortions insofar as the fetus is less than 15 weeks old. In September 2022, a trial court ruled that a 1901 near-total abortion ban could be enforced following Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

Human Rights Campaign Monday condemned Utah Governor Spencer Cox for signing SB16 , a law prohibiting healthcare professionals from providing hormonal treatment to minors who were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the law was signed. The law also prohibits doctors from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a 200-word description of a ballot initiative to enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution was valid and determined voters would see the initiative on the statewide general election ballot.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

However, in 1908’s Ex parte Young , the Supreme Court allowed suits against state officials, in lieu of states themselves, for violations of federal law. After New Jersey passed legislation in 2018 to withdraw from the compact, the waterfront commission sued the New Jersey governor to prevent him from enforcing the law.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

The bill explains, however, that individuals with “intersex conditions” or “differences in sex development” must be accommodated in compliance with state and federal law. Alabama is one of 23 states , including Louisiana and Texas , that have enacted laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio. But Ohio courts upheld Twyford’s conviction and death sentence, rejecting claims that his counsel performed so poorly that Twyford was denied his constitutional rights. In his view, the court rules limiting discovery thus do not apply.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Cooper’s activities in Georgia had no connection to McCall’s claims against Cooper, meaning that Georgia courts lacked “specific jurisdiction” over Cooper. Next up is Kelly v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 7, 2022

I spent 24 days behind bars, including the six-and-a-half days it took to extradite me from Ohio to South Florida, 1,100 miles from my home. Jamie Benjamin and Gary Edinger of the Law Offices of Benjamin, Aaronson, Edinger & Patanzo , in Ft. Ron Kleiner of the Law Office of Ron M. But it also strikes a deeply personal chord.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 2, 2021

“They write the reports, they give the statements, and other people’s accounts are not taken seriously,” Philip Stinson , a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told the Post. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. But when it comes to using deadly force, officers have vast discretion.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

To enforce these laws, Congress created the SEC. It granted the agency the power to regulate investors through either lawsuits in federal court or internal hearings in front of an administrative law judge, or ALJ. Under federal law, investors may challenge only final internal decisions by the SEC in the courts of appeals.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Shoop , Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed her first-ever opinion since her elevation, writing that the Ohio Supreme Court had applied too stringent a standard of materiality in reviewing death-row prisoner Davel Chinn’s claim that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory evidence. And in Chinn v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

“They write the reports, they give the statements, and other people’s accounts are not taken seriously,” Philip Stinson , a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told the Post. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. But when it comes to using deadly force, officers have vast discretion.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 13, 2022

At sentencing, the district court determined that the defendant’s sentence should be enhanced because the defendant “relocated, or participated in relocating, a fraudulent scheme to another jurisdiction to evade law enforcement or regulatory officials.”.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

He warned that “we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loath and believe to be frought (sic) with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that at an immediate check is required to save the country.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Make it sing!”. I was wrong.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. The bill is presumptively unconstitutional in my view, but the Court made an unholy mess of this area in its rulings on obscenity.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. Garner and other case law. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m.,

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court issued another important decision on a pressing health care issue. It’s a seemingly technical opinion interpreting a single phrase of a federal law on the prescription of controlled substances, and it garnered little attention amid the court’s end-of-term sturm und drang.

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