JURIST

MARCH 1, 2023

The US Supreme Court Tuesday released a unanimous opinion holding that certain abandoned financial instruments that are similar to money orders may be recovered by the state in which they were purchased. The post US Supreme Court rules against Delaware in $400M interstate unclaimed property dispute appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Minnesota law requiring handgun carry permit applicants to be at least 21 years of age is unconstitutional. Regarding US history, the court rejected the state’s argument that 18 to 20-year-olds were denied the right to bear arms under common law.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Supreme Court to stay ruling allowing provisional voting in ‘naked ballots’ case”: Peter Hall of Pennsylvania Capital-Star has this report. And at his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has a post titled “ Republicans Plan to Go to U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

“Pennsylvania cannot bar adults under 21 from carrying guns, court rules”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report. And Shweta Watwe of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Third Circuit Nixes Gun Carry Ban for 18-to-20-Year-Olds.” Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the Second Amendment of the Constitution protects non-violent offenders from federal firearm bans. The case resulted from Bryan Range’s appeal from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Circuit Judge Thomas M.

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JULY 21, 2021

“Amazon must pay Pennsylvania warehouse workers for time spent waiting for security screening, state Supreme Court rules”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report. ” Today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania , on certified questions from the U.S. .”

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JURIST

JANUARY 8, 2021

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found on Thursday that the Victims’ Rights Amendment— passed by voters in November 2019—violated Article XI , Section 1 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Overall, the proposed amendment did not satisfy this constitutional requirement.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2024

A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that the date requirement for mail-in ballots for Pennsylvania voters did not violate the Civil Right Act’s Materiality Provision, reversing a lower court’s decision. Act 77 requires Pennsylvania voters to put the date on the return envelopes of mail-in ballots.

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JUNE 9, 2022

“Supreme Court Allows Undated Ballots in Pennsylvania Election; A state law required mailed ballots to be accompanied by a signed and dated declaration, but a federal appeals court ruled that undated declarations sufficed”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“Pennsylvania Tied Vote Decided By Drawing of Lots after Court Ruling that Undated But Timely-Arriving Mail Ballots Had to Be Counted under the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2023

The US Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit Tuesday ruled against Adelphia Gateway, LLC (Adelphia) in a challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Hearing Board’s jurisdiction to hear challenges to Adelphia’s planned natural gas compressor project.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case. The North Carolina dispute, Moore v. Constitution.

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MARCH 27, 2024

“Undated Pennsylvania mail-in ballots should not be counted, appeals court rules; The decision sets up a potential Supreme Court showdown over the swing state’s ballots ahead of the November presidential election”: Kim Lyons of Pennsylvania Capital-Star has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Pennsylvania county to count mail-in ballots that do not comply with a state law requiring voters to write the date on the ballot’s envelope. A state appeals court ruled that, under state law, the 257 undated ballots could not be counted.

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APRIL 13, 2021

’s Supreme Court ruled on election law. ” Sam Dunklau of NPR affiliate WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report. “Some in power are still mad that Pa.’s Here’s why it matters now.”

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AUGUST 30, 2024

“Pennsylvania Court, on 4-1 Vote, Holds That Failing to Count Timely But Undated (or Misdated) Mail-In Ballots Violates the State Constitution; Case Likely Headed to State Supreme Court and Potentially SCOTUS on Federal Cases”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Supreme Court rejected Philly’s latest attempt to pass its own gun laws; In a unanimous decision, the high court ruled that the city’s arguments had fallen ‘woefully short’ of the standard needed for a legal victory”: Chris Palmer and Gillian McGoldrick of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court (..)

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2022

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that Allegheny County DA Stephen Zappala violated his duty when he failed to review private criminal complaints against Pittsburgh’s assault weapons ban and compelled Zappala to do so.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on Friday that three Georgia citizens under 21 years old have standing to sue county probate judges over the state law that disallows issuing carry licenses to people under 21. Thus, Brasher remanded the case back to the district court for further proceedings.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

“Philadelphia Can’t Open Drug Safe-Injection Site, Federal Appeals Court Rules; Nonprofit can seek review from full court after three-judge decision”: Jon Kamp of The Wall Street Journal has this report. court says.”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

as a result of Supreme Court rulings, but it has helped to contribute to a broken system, speakers told a panel organized by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. and local law enforcement around the country have voluntarily started to record.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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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. Simply designating a prepaid fee as “nonrefundable” may not only be misleading but a violation of ethics rules in a jurisdiction (e.g., Model Rule 1.15(a), 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No.

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JULY 6, 2021

Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. The Democratic National Committee challenged the two Arizona laws.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Similarly, the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Joint Ethics Op. 2007-300 points out that while the Model Rules are silent about notification timing, the prudent approach is to not notify clients until the firm has been informed, “absent circumstances that would compromise the interests of the client.” Conduct 4-5.8(c)(1)

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

Share A pipeline developer may use the federal government’s power of eminent domain to seize property controlled by New Jersey so that it can build a natural-gas pipeline through the state, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 5-4 vote. The case, PennEast Pipeline Co.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Morefield Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law. justice system. .” King is James P.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The decision further indicated that longstanding firearms bans for felons were “presumptively lawful.” In Folajtar’s case, both the district court and the 3rd Circuit rejected her argument that her nonviolent crime was not “serious” enough for the ban. Under 18 U.S.C. § Holloway v. Rosen and Folajtar v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. Raiders Retreat Realty Co.

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JULY 13, 2021

Judges and authorities have made social media a “First Amendment-free zone” where people — particularly students — face outsize repercussions for contextless and humorous statements, LoMonte wrote in a recently posted University of Memphis Law Review article. The Court ruled 8-1 that the suspension violated Levy’s First Amendment rights.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The question presented was whether, under federal admiralty law, a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract can be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the “strong public policy” of the U.S. state whose law is displaced. LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Department of Justice has broad, but not unfettered, authority to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act’s qui tam provision even when the government initially elected to allow the whistleblower to proceed with the action.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case that UCLA law professor Richard Hasen has called the “ 800-pound gorilla ” of election law. Although a “legislature” is the representative body that makes the laws, they explain, when the U.S. The case, Moore v. And in Rucho v.

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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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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. history of state courts invalidating laws that violate state constitutions.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The first sides with Promptu on claim construction – remanding the case back to the Pennsylvania district court for further development. Microsoft is not only a precedential decision of this Court, but a precedential decision of this Court that admonished the exact same law firm before us now for the exact same behavior.

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