SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Cooper’s activities in Georgia had no connection to McCall’s claims against Cooper, meaning that Georgia courts lacked “specific jurisdiction” over Cooper. Goertz , 21-442.

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MAY 13, 2022

In dispute were the district court’s reading of the first two elements. The defendant argued that because the scheme’s “home base” or “hub” remained Toledo, Ohio throughout the robberies, he never relocated the scheme. Safelite Grp., 3d 429, 440 (6th Cir. 2019); see also id. You may be asked to brief judges on the matter.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. Then 43, he had spent most of his career with the Moraine, Ohio, police department. Harpster was rapt.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This already is being litigated in some lower courts. a school board is fighting the courts in its effort to fire teacher Byron “Tanner” Cross, who was suspended for speaking against gender policies in a public board meeting. Will misgendering in the United States be treated as actual hate speech or discriminatory speech?

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The cases came to the court last week on an emergency basis , and the formal question in both disputes is whether the government should be allowed to enforce the policies while litigation challenging them continues. Lower-court rulings blocked the administration from enforcing the vaccine mandate in approximately half of the states.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A New York court ruled last month that Kennedy could not appear on the state’s ballot because the address listed on his nominating petition was a “sham address that he assumed for the purpose of maintaining his voter registration and furthering his own political aspirations in” New York.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to put arbitration agreements “on an equal footing with other contracts.” On Monday, the court agreed to hear a lawsuit from a fast-food worker who alleges that a lower court treated an arbitration clause too favorably.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2022

Those earlier sources relied upon by sites like Mediaite could find themselves the subject of discovery if this now goes to litigation. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Clanton would face some challenges in pursuing any litigation.

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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.” particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

One set of challengers is a group of 27 states, led by Ohio, who argue that the mandate is “nothing more than a pretext for increasing the number of vaccinated Americans.” A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2022

The justices will hear the case in late November without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in. The justices left in place a district-court ruling striking down the policy, which means that the Biden administration cannot implement it while it waits for the Supreme Court to hear argument and issue a decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

They contended that it would seem to follow from Apprendi that a jury must find any facts necessary to support a (nonzero) restitution order, and they suggested that the court should take up a lower court ruling to the contrary. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.)

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Waters’ most recent words could well be cited in the ongoing litigation over the January 6 th riot on Capitol Hill. Ohio , where the Supreme Court stressed that even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. It is one of a number of lawsuits, including a lawsuit filed by Rep.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

” Judge Amit Mehta ‘s description of the litigation against four principal speakers at the Jan. As famed Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Hard cases make bad law” — and the litigation against President Trump and his associates is a hard case that just proved Holmes right.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. On the existing evidence, they will likely fail on appeal, even if they survive the trial level litigation. In Brandenburg v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 29, 2025

(The Sabin Center and the Environmental Defense Fund created the IRA Tracker after the IRA was enacted in 2022 to record actions taken by federal agencies to implement the law and relaunched the resource at the start of President Trumps second term with added features to track rollbacks and litigation).

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

If some cases can be sustained past motions to dismiss, they would also allow for discovery though those fights could draw out the litigation. However, Democrats may also be laying the foundation for Trump to claim vindication in defeating such cases in courts. The reason is that while the crime is not clear, the case law is.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

An association of private, for-profit colleges in Texas went to federal court to challenge that regulation. Last April, the 5th Circuit agreed with the challengers and invalidated the rule. After first unsuccessfully appealing within the agency, Zuch went to tax court to challenge the levy.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2025

Instead, the government contends, federal judges can only issue a judgment or order regarding the rights of the litigants in the case before them. They contend that it encourages litigants to seek out a favorable forum to file their lawsuits in the hope that they can prevail there and block a government policy nationwide.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection A gency , the court granted a request by three states and several private companies and trade groups to put a rule issued by the EPA on hold while a challenge to it continues in a federal appeals court. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit – or simultaneously did both.

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