SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

South Carolina , the Supreme Court addressed this very issue. In Simmons , the court held that in capital trials, when the state puts defendants’ future dangerousness at issue, defendants have a constitutional right to inform the jury that they will be ineligible for parole if spared execution.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday rejected the Biden Administration’s attempt to stay a lower court ruling which found President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unlawful. This is just the latest in a series of legal blows to the Biden administration’s federal student loan forgiveness plan.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the University of South Carolina (USC) has the right to require students to wear masks on campus to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and the requirement is effective immediately. The Supreme Court took up the appeal on an emergency basis.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

The resulting litigation could leave core election rules in doubt heading into the next round of elections. It seeks to negate the Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County v. They also seek a constitutional amendment to reverse the court’s decision in Citizen’s United , which upheld the free speech rights of corporations.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Either or both cases could return to the Supreme Court once the federal appeals courts rule on the merits of the dispute. Nebraska , a divided court ruled that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority when it announced the debt relief program, which relied on the HEROES Act, a law passed in the wake of the Sept.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For the record, I am a legal analyst for Fox News, though I have spent my entire academic and professional career opposing criminal and civil efforts to punish or chill free speech. Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. In Brandenburg v.

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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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Above The Law

APRIL 24, 2025

Because the conservative legal movement luminary appears to be having a moment. It’s a South Carolina insurance dispute, not the Voyager Golden Record. Perhaps standing at the edge of legal authoritarianism and staring into that void has left him pondering life, death, and 14-point Times New Roman.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Tim Scott of South Carolina proposed the JUSTICE (Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere) Act, which includes reforming police hiring practices and funding training that would end the practice of chokeholds. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act from Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif.,

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. Edwards and Planned Parenthood went to federal court in South Carolina. The Supreme Court, it says, has made clear that this is a stringent test.

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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

MAY 15, 2023

South Carolina Conference of the NAACP to their merits calendar for the 2023-24 term as well as three other cases, including a dispute arising from former President Donald Trump’s lease of a government-owned building in Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed. United States and Jackson v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to send their challenge to Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law back to U.S. 10, the Supreme Court ruled that the providers’ lawsuit can go forward against a group of state medical licensing officials. Issue : Whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Lynch v. The law, S.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

The Trump docket Even before the Supreme Court issued its July 1 decision holding that former presidents cannot face criminal liability for their official acts, Trump had already effectively scored a major victory from the justices. legal system, the court’s ruling would lead to a “massive shock.” In Alexander v.

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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. In her short tenure on the D.C.

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