JURIST

MAY 10, 2024

The US Supreme Court decided to focus on the issue of whether the defendants’ interpretation of the discovery rule was correct because the discovery rule was unchallenged in this case. The court found that the plain meaning of the statute does not provide any time limit on recovery damages.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that tribal police officers have the authority to detain and search non-Indigenous persons on federal highways within their territories. ” The court went on to state that detention is only permissible if a violation of law is “apparent.” United States v.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

Baird and Nicolas Lyon, were charged for their roles in the Flint water crisis under Michigan’s “one-man grand jury statute.” ” The law allows a single judge to consider evidence in private chambers and issue an indictment authorizing criminal charges. The cases were remanded to the state district court.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This ceremony is the conclusion of the accession process which began in 2022 when the government approved a law on Rome Statute ratification and a declaration , accepting the ICC’s retroactive jurisdiction before the Armenian Constitutional Court authorized the ratification.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2023

The case resulted from Bryan Range’s appeal from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Hardiman authored the opinion of the court. The court ruled that under new US Supreme Court precedent from New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. Circuit Judge Thomas M.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday that undocumented immigrants bear the burden of showing that they have not been convicted of a crime involving “moral turpitude,” or they will face lawful removal. Clemente Pereida, is being deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Garland , reversing a lower court’s decision that had limited access to “cancellation of removal,” an important form of relief for noncitizens in deportation proceedings. That rule can foreclose access to immigration relief by preventing noncitizens from accruing the time required for eligibility. The voting line-up was unusual.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block a district court ruling that a Missouri law that attempts to invalidate federal firearm law within the state is unconstitutional. Missouri applied to Justice Brett Kavanaugh to stay the lower court ruling. In July 2021, Missouri Governor Michael L.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A New York appeals court ruled that a New York City law granting non-citizens the power to vote was unconstitutional. It was estimated that the law would allow more than 800,000 non-citizens the ability to vote in New York City local elections, prior to the court’s Wednesday ruling.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the heirs of Jewish art dealers cannot bring a lawsuit in US courts against Germany over the alleged forced sale of art and artifacts under the Nazi regime. The Supreme Court on Wednesday also issued a one-sentence opinion in Republic of Hungary v.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

After the Amendment took effect on January 1, 2018, Circuit City, a US chain of electronics retail stores, refused to pay the increased fees and brought suit in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that the 2017 Amendment, which creates nonuniform bankruptcy laws, was unconstitutional. United States v.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Department of Health Services (DHS) lacked authority to limit capacities for indoor public gatherings. As a result, the court held that “Emergency Order 3 should have been promulgated according to rulemaking procedures set forth in Wis.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During oral arguments, counsel for Helix Energy Solutions Group Paul Clement sought to persuade the court that Hewitt’s compensation scheme met the minimum weekly salary requirement as an executive. Under the relevant statute, an employee qualifies as an executive if, among other things, they are paid a salary.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline. Most states implement rule changes in batches, two or four times per year.

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APRIL 14, 2025

The Court went on to find that background principles of corporate law support its holding. As Justice Kagan noted, All we hold today is that the courts below were wrong to treat Dewberry Group and its affiliates as a single entity in calculating the defendants profits.

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2023

The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado struck down the state’s Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act (CSAAA) on Tuesday, ruling that the law violates the state constitution and is “unconstitutionally retrospective.” M árquez authored the opinion of the court. ” Justice Monica M.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. ” The denial from the Supreme Court offered no explanation or reasoning. The challenged statute, N.C.

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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2023

A Pennsylvania state court rejected Tuesday a challenge to Act 77 , a law that amended the state’s Election Code to expand mail-in voting options. However, the Commonwealth Court was unconvinced by the challenge. In 2022, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rejected an argument attacking the constitutionality of the law.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that two Republican state legislators may step in to defend the state’s voter identification law, even though the state’s Democratic attorney general is already doing so.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Ohio courts do not have to defer to a state agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous law. The Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas reversed the Board’s decision without affording any deference to the agency’s interpretation of the relevant statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its docket for the 2022-23 term, a technical dispute over the binding nature of the statute of limitations for a federal property law. A lower court ruled that the landowners filed their lawsuit too late and that the statute of limitations is jurisdictional.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday rejected an appeal from Pfizer Inc. after the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said that Pfizer’s plan to cover patients’ copays for its heart failure medications violated US law.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Thursday to disturb a federal statute governing the adoption and foster proceedings for Indigenous children in the US. The court issued three findings in its Thursday decision. Petitioners’ contended that the proceedings fall within the realm of family law, which is usually governed by state law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

In a two-line order, Sotomayor held that the lower court ruling would be stayed “pending further order” from her or from the full court. The statute prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Concepcion v. The Justice Department argued that Concepcion’s original sentence of 228 months was within the statute’s range of 188 to 235 months, meaning that district court judges are not able to adjust Concepcion’s sentence.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

The justices rejected the bank’s contention that because the Turkish government owns a majority share of the bank, known as Halkbank, it is immune from prosecution under a federal law that generally prohibits lawsuits against foreign governments in U.S. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. But because the U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2020

India’s Allahbad High Court ruled Friday that no coercive action may be taken against a man accused of violating the Uttar Pradesh ordinance on Religious Conversion. The High Court also indicated that the matter will be heard with a petition challenging the constitutionality of the statute. Thanks for your support!

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that any acquisition of private property by the state must meet a set of criteria under Article 300A of India’s Constitution, which includes being carried out for a public purpose, following the law, and following proper procedure.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 against a plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for alleged violations of certain federal anti-discrimination laws. In Thursday’s ruling in Cummings v. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Jicarilla Apache Nation , the court held that the United States owes no duty to Indian tribes except those expressly noted in treaties, statutes, or regulations. Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented, his third extensive writing in the last two weeks on Indian law matters. Following cases such as United States v.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday on an immigrant status case regarding noncitizens seeking to change their immigration status from temporary protected status (TPS) to lawful permanent residency. This case involves Jose Sanchez and Sonia Gonzalez, who entered the US illegally in the 1990s.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2023

The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division Tuesday ruled that a Missouri law attempting to invalidate federal firearm laws within the state is unconstitutional. In Wimes’ opinion and order, the court ruled that SAPA is “unconstitutional in its entirety.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The order granting the petition for rehearing relied on North Carolina Rule of Appellate Procedure 31 , which allows rehearings of decisions if a court overlooks or misapprehends a point of fact or law. The order stated that the petitioners made a satisfactory showing under Rule 31 that the prior opinions may be erroneous.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Tax Court review in a CDP case – and the taxpayer can provide an explanation persuasive in equity, which is a high bar – then the Tax Court can toll the 30-day period. a law firm, of intent to levy on Boechler’s property to satisfy a tax penalty. The court’s opinion confirms this view.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 23, 2024

Supreme Court held that 18 U.S.C. Facts of the Case As the Court explained in its opinion, Federal and state law distinguish between two kinds of payments to public officials—bribes and gratuities. As enacted in 1984, the statute at issue in the case, 18 U.S.C. In Snyder v. United States , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The court delivered the landmark decision in an appeal filed by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai against an NGT order on waste disposal that was issued after the NGT took suo moto cognizance of an article published by an online news source.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2022

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said: “[T]he fact that a North Dakota Law Firm, Boechler, P.C., ” For the “jurisdictional label” to apply, Congress must “clearly state” that a rule is intended to be jurisdictional. The statute does not say that as to the 30-day deadline. Reagan National Advertising , United States v.

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