JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The Second Circuit also distinguished the Connecticut program from a Maryland regulatory scheme that the U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Glossip counters that there is a “high hurdle” to overcome the presumption that the Supreme Court can review a state court ruling on an issue of federal law. And in this case, he stresses, the state court’s decision “relied directly” on federal law – specifically, the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Brady v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 2025

Neillys petition for review will presumably be put on hold until the justices rule sometime next year on Ellingburgs case. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit allowing the state to enforce most of the law was only a preliminary one and may change as the litigation continues.

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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.” Maryland v. particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Maryland Appellate Court Said Residents Lacked Standing to Challenge Update to Master Plan. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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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. A federal district court rejected this challenge, and the U.S. In Snope v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

I was therefore gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of the free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church. Sullivan, the Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech. In New York Times v.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But the lower courts ruled, and the federal government contends, that the “safety value” is only available to defendants who do not have any of the indicators. After a federal appeals court reinstated Laufer’s lawsuit, Acheson went to the Supreme Court, which agreed in March to weigh in on whether Laufer can sue.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. She also was persuaded that Congress had ratified the lower appellate court decisions holding that there was a narrower scope of review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the U.S. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

The court added three new cases to its docket for arguments next fall, including a major new case (covered in this article ) on the scope of the Second Amendment right to carry a gun outside the home. That order is also covered in a separate article.). Free speech and public censure.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Maryland Appellate Court Affirmed Ruling for Baltimore in Case Seeking Correspondence and Agreements Related to City’s Climate Case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kruger left WilmerHale for the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a class in transnational litigation as a visiting assistant professor. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Maryland v. Following the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

Trump could argue truth as a defense and fall back on opinion is needed in any litigation. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The court ruled that such tweets are manifestly opinion and not facts for the purposes of defamation law.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit by President Ronald Reagan, from 1997 to 1998. Jackson then snagged a highly sought-after spot as an associate at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a Washington litigation boutique that later merged with Baker Botts, a Texas-based firm. But in Boy Scouts of America v. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.,

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