SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Harper arose from a challenge to a new congressional map adopted by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature in early November 2021. The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the map after finding that it was a partisan gerrymander in violation of the North Carolina constitution.

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Customs & International Trade Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

& Chinese Companies Fined $2.5 And Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Co. to the UFLPA Entity List , June 2023 A New Era in Cosmetics Regulation: The Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act , May 2023 Can A False Claims Act Qui Tam Case, Alleging Customs Fraud, Be Filed And Pursued Anonymously?,

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. The two universities being challenged are Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. SFFA came to the Supreme Court in February 2021, asking the justices to review the 1st Circuit’s ruling. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to weigh in.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers report , for example, found that the average sentence for fraud defendants who went to trial in 2015 was three times higher than the sentence for those who pleaded guilty; for defendants charged with burglary and embezzlement, the sentence at trial was almost eight times higher.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

He first started sketching Supreme Court arguments in the 1977-78 term, when Regents of the University of California v. I would like to prevail on him to go one more term and have some symmetry by sketching the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative-action cases, but it seems that his mind is made up.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In her initial expert disclosures, plaintiff identified Dr. Steege from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The trial court ruled that “Dr. Steege did not meet the locality rule outlined in Shipley v. Code Ann. § 26-26-115(b). Williams , 350 S.W.3d 3d 527 (Tenn. 2011),” and accordingly excluded his testimony.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While I remain hopeful that the courts have gotten a head start on addressing many issues, there is a virtual army of lawyers in place from both major parties waiting for a green light to deploy. As the voting margin shrinks between the parties, the number of lawyers increases. Jamie Raskin (D.,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2022

Some of us immediately noted that Biden’s exclusionary criteria have been declared unconstitutional or unlawful by the court for schools and businesses; they also are unprecedented , unnecessary , and unfair to potential nominees. For decades, the court has left this issue a muddle of conflicting and vague 5-4 rulings.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2025

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to review a potentially blockbuster religion clause case in Oklahoma Charter School Board v. While the lawyers representing St. The lower court ruled that such funding of a religious school is unconstitutional. Here is the lower court decision: St. However, there is a catch.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

The justices did not act on several high-profile petitions that they considered last week, including a challenge to New York’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers and a North Carolina case asking the justices to weigh in on the election-law doctrine known as the “independent state legislature” theory. But the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Clinton lawyer Marc Elias, with the law firm of Perkins Coie, denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 12, 2024

AP ] * After ruling that boneless chicken can have bones , Ohio Supreme Court rules that big pharmaceutical companies selling a dangerous product isn't a product liability claim. Law.com ] * Firm institutes "choose your own billable target" policy that offers tiered bonuses depending on what lawyers declare.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford. She stayed there until 1954, when she moved to Germany with her husband, who served as an Army lawyer. In Germany, O’Connor worked as a civilian lawyer for the Army Quartermaster Corps.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

However, in 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.) In 2021 federal Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that it would have been absurd for the Archivist to disregard the deadline and unilaterally add the unratified amendment to the Constitution.

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