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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists. 10] See Suneal Bedi & William C.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The case was currently pending before the Fourth Circuit after a federal district court in Maryland held that Maryland law preempted the local law. Federal Court in Washington Upheld Forest Restoration Plan. The federal district court for the Eastern District of Washington upheld the U.S. Williams , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2022

Examine the court rulings and courtroom practices around VIS, and several practical questions arise, argues Bandes. The 1991 Supreme Court ruling in Payne v. Subsequent court decisions have muddied the legal waters on VIS. Is There a Better Way to Hold Harassers Accountable? “We In Booth v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Adnan Syed murder case in Maryland illustrates systemic problems in the American criminal justice system. His automatic direct appeal was denied by the Appellate Court of Maryland in March 2003. After conducting a two-day evidentiary hearing, the trial court denied all nine claims for post-conviction relief in January 2014.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 21, 2024

That’s especially true if recent Supreme Court rulings have rendered your matter a quixotic pursuit, doomed to fail for lack of direct causation. That’s what happened last week in District Court in Maryland. Following the precedent on standing that the Supreme Court handed down in June in FDA v.

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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. relisted after the Sept. 14 and Oct. 28 conferences). Shoop , 22-5058.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit applied a too exacting standard to his claim under Brady v. Maryland that he was prejudiced by the government’s suppression of favorable evidence. Shoop involves the argument of death-row prisoner Davel Chinn that the U.S. And Shoop v. Cunningham. relisted after the Sept. 28 conference).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral argument in the case of a civil rights tester who searches the internet to find hotels whose websites do not provide information about the accessibility of their facilities, as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act. A federal trial judge threw out Laufer’s case. But the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is most striking however is the coverage in the Washington Post, which reported on the summary affirmance but only quoted supporters for the challenge, including a strikingly misleading take on the lower court ruling upheld by the Supreme Court. I have written about D.C. even though it is not constitutionally required to.”

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JURIST

APRIL 20, 2023

US maker of the generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, Wednesday filed a lawsuit in a Maryland federal court to ensure continued access to its product. Since then, Supreme Court took up the case for review. GenBioPro Inc., Both the Biden administration and Congressional Republicans have weighed in on the issue.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

At the time, I wrote that if someone sued over the resulting mayhem, Durkan and Seattle could find themselves clinging to the very legal doctrine they denounced in police brutality cases: immunity. In 1855, the Supreme Court ruled in South v. That has now happened with a number of state and federal lawsuits.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 10, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday evening largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States a Maryland man who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump administration concedes was an administrative error.

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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). The court found that, in their 2021 Congressional Plan, the Democrats not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2025

* Trump administration refusal to honor 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to facilitate the release from custody of a Maryland man mistakenly deported becomes gravest crisis for federal judiciary since the apocryphal “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” moment. [ That’s… not legal.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 2025

The Constitutions ex post facto clause prohibits laws that retroactively increase the punishment for a crime or criminalize conduct that was legal when it occurred. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a restitution order, imposed as part of a criminal sentence, is the kind of punishment that can violate the clause.

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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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HowAppealing

APRIL 13, 2025

Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador; The Justice Departments latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trumps foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Groff sued USPS in federal court under Title VII for refusing to accommodate his religious beliefs and practices. The trial court ruled for the Postal Service under Hardison , and the U.S. Kevin Younger, who was detained awaiting trial at a Maryland state facility, claimed that guards entered his cell and beat him.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kruger left the solicitor general’s office in 2013 to serve as a deputy assistant attorney general in another section of the Department of Justice: the Office of Legal Counsel, which (among other things) provides legal advice to the president and other agencies within the executive branch. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Maryland v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

And when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case on June 23, Roberts was on board. The decision was noteworthy not only because it struck down the New York law, which mirrored similar restrictions in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, but for its methodology. And in West Virginia v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court said this “correct view of the project” involved only questions of federal law and concluded that the plaintiffs therefore failed to tender an issue over which the court had jurisdiction. Maryland Appellate Court Said Residents Lacked Standing to Challenge Update to Master Plan. County of Butte v. C071785 (Cal.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” She blamed the kid as “old enough to … follow the rules.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Robertss 2023 report discussed the legal profession and the role of artificial intelligence. His 2022 report , in the aftermath of the courts decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion, stressed the importance of judicial security. The Supreme Court will be back in the spotlight early in the new year.

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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. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirmed.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which had granted a stay of execution this week to allow time for that court to consider the final legal issue in the case. A majority of the Supreme Court ruled that the government’s plan was permissible. But Maryland abolished capital punishment in 2013. Breyer wrote.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless. This lawsuit seems designed to amplify a public relations campaign without substantial legal support. This remains a point of political debate.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

She also was persuaded that Congress had ratified the lower appellate court decisions holding that there was a narrower scope of review. On May 28, the Maryland state court hearing Baltimore’s case stayed the proceedings pending the Fourth Circuit’ review of the defendants’ other grounds for appeal. 19-1189 (U.S. Connecticut v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

Sandford , holding (by a vote of 7-2) that a Black person whose ancestors were brought to the United States and sold as enslaved persons was not entitled to any protection from the federal courts because he was not a U.S. The order was quickly the subject of legal challenges around the country. In Maryland, U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. Maryland Appellate Court Affirmed Ruling for Baltimore in Case Seeking Correspondence and Agreements Related to City’s Climate Case. FEATURED CASE.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the 17 years following her graduation from law school, Jackson held a variety of legal jobs. While much of that experience is typical for a Supreme Court short-lister, one line on Jackson’s resume is not: her mid-career decision to spend two years as a public defender. But in Boy Scouts of America v. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.,

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