The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. In Miller v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2023

The conflict of interest contravenes a number of provisions in the Louisiana Code of Judicial Conduct , including Canon 1 requiring judges to uphold the independence and integrity of the court system. It also contravened Canon 2 in failing to “avoid Impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all activities.”

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

Before filing suit, plaintiff consulted with a friend who was an attorney in Louisiana. Based on this legal standard, the Court of Appeals agreed that plaintiff did not comply with the HCLA pre-suit notice requirements here. Plaintiff thereafter filed this HCLA suit. internal citations omitted).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Second Circuit agreed with the district court that the plaintiff lacked standing because he failed to allege an injury in fact since he “never explained why he had any legal right to have the document distributed.” Federal Court in Washington Upheld Forest Restoration Plan. EPA’s brief is due December 15. Williams , No.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

His case ended up before the Supreme Court, which issued a 7–2 decision against Scott. ” The Court held that black men and women, free or slaves, were not American citizens. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to throw out the charge against Plessy, his case ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Louisiana that have raised doubts about imposing the death sentence for crimes such as rape. In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled that imposing the death penalty for rape was cruel and unusual punishment. Georgia , Coker v. Georgia and Kennedy v. Between 1908 and 1951, all 45 prisoners executed for rape in Virginia were Black men.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a capital defendant’s request for habeas relief on the ground that his lawyer conceded guilt over his objection, as in 2018’s McCoy v. After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts. In Tyler v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Perhaps they also stand as a microcosm of the diversity of work-from-home environments in which so many members of the legal community have found themselves this year. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I Lien sketched Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill, who faced off against Bélanger in Edwards v.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

Alabama is one of 23 states , including Louisiana and Texas , that have enacted laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Some states, such as Florida, have attempted to prohibit the use of personal pronouns in certain public school contexts, and Ohio has also prohibited transgender participation in sports.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The government argues that although enablement inquiry requires some factual findings, it also includes questions of law, and the Federal Circuit properly set aside a jury verdict favoring Amgen on legal grounds. Louisiana , 21-993. relisted after the Oct. 28 conference). Returning Relists.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court overruled precedent from the 1970s upholding nonunanimous verdicts in criminal cases. The court there wrote that the Constitution provides a defendant the “right to demand that his liberty should not be taken from him except by … the unanimous verdict of a jury of twelve persons.”

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to the Espy File and DPIC , there have been more than 16,000 people in colonial and post-colonial America executed in a legal process since 1608. Supreme Court ruled that a prisoner challenging an existing method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must propose a viable alternative method. . This past June the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

Can an officer legally, not follow an order from her superior? Many legal cases exist documenting public servants (namely police officers) and when they can and cannot disobey a superior or an administrative (e.g., and around the world) often seem and in many cases do follow any legal order given. (and

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2023

Timeline Post Conviction The following is a timeline of the post-conviction events that have taken place in the Syed case: In May 2010, Syed filed a post-conviction application with nine claims challenging the legality of his conviction in the Baltimore trial court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of I was wrong.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed on Thursday a lower court ruling which would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to encourage social media platforms to remove content it considers misleading.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for a major ruling next year on abortion – one that could upend the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. Casey , in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus becomes viable. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Last May, in an ongoing legal challenge to Becton’s authority first filed in 2020, five white female prosecutors — Mary Knox, Alison Chandler, Mary Blumberg, Rachel Piersig and Jill Henderson — filed a federal lawsuit against Contra Costa County and its DA’s office. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Friday invalidated a Mississippi election law that allowed mail-in and absentee election ballots as long as they were sent on or before Election Day. The ruling overturned the lower court’s decision that upheld the law.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. The case of Lizette Herrera, a 26-year-old South Texas woman, is already well known. If the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2025

. & Nnamdi Egwuonwu, NBC News) Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution back on for next week, federal appeals court rules (Andrea Gallo, Meghan Friedmann, John Simerman, & Joseph Cranney, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans) How Amy Coney Barretts close friendship could affect the future of this major supreme court case (Linda Jacobson, The (..)

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

That changed this week, with announcements from different parts of the federal bureaucracy aimed at supporting and protecting reproductive health in the new landscape created by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. For legal authority, HHS is relying on the ??1986

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As both a government lawyer and in private practice, Douglas Huron spent his legal career advocating on behalf of workers. In that case, Ann Hopkins was denied a promotion because she was perceived as “pushy” and “too macho,” and the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the company’s actions violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Robinson , in which Louisiana had asked the justices to review a ruling by a federal district court that would have required the state’s legislature to draw a new congressional map that included a second majority-Black district. The case had been on hold for nearly a year, waiting for the court to issue its ruling in Allen v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The mining company’s emergency motion after the August 2017 order asked the court to amend its judgment and stay the injunction. 349-6-16WNCV (Vt.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. It would also unleash potential legal challenges.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Because the balance of factors was likely to shift over time, the court said it would reevaluate the stay if the Eighth Circuit appeal was not resolved in 12 months. The court also denied Minnesota’s motion for attorney fees, concluding that “removal advanced critical legal questions that have not yet been resolved by the higher courts.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The vaccine disputes came to the court last month on an emergency basis, a procedural posture in which the justices might have generally been inclined to dispose of them with a brief order without hearing argument. 7 on whether the mandates can remain in place while challenges to their legality continue in the lower courts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. Williams , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies. By a vote of 6-3, the court ruled that that the plaintiffs did not have a legal right, known as standing, to bring their lawsuit.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. A group of states brought suit in a federal district court in Kentucky, challenging the constitutionality of the HISA and its funding mechanism.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. The federal district court for the Middle District of Louisiana enjoined work on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana. The court ordered the Board of Regents to produce all requested records within 90 days.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

To the contrary,” the clinic writes, “two generations – spanning almost five decades – have come to depend on the availability of legal abortion, and the right to make this decision has been further cemented as critical to gender equality.”. There have been no such changes, the clinic underscores. “To Last year, in Ramos v.

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