SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

On Friday, the justices agreed to decide whether the Nollan / Dolan test applies to a California man’s challenge to a development fee, or whether – as a California appeals court ruled – the fee is instead immune from such review because it was authorized by legislation. A federal appeals court ruled that Fikre’s case was not moot.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the absence of oversight boards and civil litigation, criminal charges against prosecutors and ethics board disciplinary measures are the only means of incentivizing appropriate prosecutorial actions. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. Certify Compliance.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. The Third Circuit ruled in favor of Raiders. The Supreme Court granted GLI’s cert petition and heard oral arguments on October 10, 2023. Decision The Court held that the issue of whether a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract is enforceable is governed by federal law.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Harper arose from a challenge to a new congressional map adopted by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature in early November 2021. The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the map after finding that it was a partisan gerrymander in violation of the North Carolina constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. The two universities being challenged are Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. SFFA came to the Supreme Court in February 2021, asking the justices to review the 1st Circuit’s ruling. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to weigh in.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Below is my Hill column on the current litigation controversies around the country. We are still watching litigation playing out just a day before the election. They often refuse challengers access to vital election board information or bar cases as speculative or litigants as lacking in standing. Jamie Raskin (D.,

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SquirePattonBoggs

MARCH 11, 2024

. § 1254(2), the lesser-known companion to the provision that gives the Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction (§1254(1)). Certification to a State Supreme Court, this Blog has noted , is a procedure the Sixth Circuit knows well. See In re Nat’l Prescription Opiate Litig. , University of North Carolina , No.

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Above The Law

MAY 2, 2025

Note : A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog , the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Leak of Wisconsin Supreme Court order remains a mystery after $165K investigation: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report. GOP takes over N.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Paul Clement, the conservative Supreme Court advocate who frequently sparred with Ginsburg during oral arguments, called her “ a path-marking litigator for equality for women and a keen legal tactician.”. Ruth Ginsburg was one of the members of the Court who achieved greatness before she became a great justice,” he wrote.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Given this “unmitigable prejudice,” the court concluded “that this litigation cannot, in good conscience, continue in the Tribe’s absence.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Share For the third time this term, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether someone can stage an intervention – the legal kind, that is. The North Carolina legislature passed the voter-ID law at the center of the case in December 2018. Philip Berger, the leader of the North Carolina Senate. Background.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that two Republican legislators in North Carolina can join a lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the state’s voter-identification law. In an 8-1 opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that the Republican legislators have a right to intervene in the lawsuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The non-profit has now also filed a petition in a challenge to the University of North Carolina that it hopes can serve as a companion to the Harvard case. In early November, the district court ruled that UNC’s use of race in admissions was consistent with Supreme Court precedents. University of North Carolina.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“This crabbed view of corruption,” O’Connor and Stevens concluded, “ignores precedent, common sense, and the realities of political fundraising exposed by the record in this litigation.” Federal Election Commission , the court overruled McConnell (as well as a 1990 campaign-finance decision, Austin v. In Citizens United v.

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