JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

The trial court ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor and ordered the state to continue its participation in the program. Holcomb and Payne sought to reverse the decision in the Indiana Court of Appeals by claiming that the trial court abused its discretion. However, Gov. There the plaintiffs succeeded after arguing that Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

United States , the Supreme Court identified one scenario in which jury instructions were not sufficient: when a non-testifying defendant’s confession to police incriminates a codefendant. While ostensibly standing behind these precedents, the Supreme Court ruled today that all that was missing from Gray was slightly more robust redaction.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to take another look at several other cases under the court’s new test. Among them: laws in California and New Jersey that limit the amount of ammunition a gun magazine can hold and a 2013 ban on “assault weapons” in Maryland.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The justices said Monday they will review a lower-court ruling that upheld New York’s restrictive gun permit law. The court’s action follows mass shootings in recent weeks in Indiana, Georgia, Colorado and California. The others are: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

ASEA filed counterclaims asking the court to enjoin Alaska from implementing the governor’s administrative order and from making any changes to the dues-deduction processes that were in place before the opinion was issued. Maryland and Napue v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Under federal law, cases filed in state court can be transferred – the technical term is “removed” – to federal court if they meet one of several criteria. In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal.

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Parasec

APRIL 4, 2024

Federal: Federal Court Rules CTA Unconstitutional On March 1, 2024, a federal court in Alabama ruled in National Small Business United (NSBU) v. The Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxations recently informed its customers about some changes that have been made to annual report filings.

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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. He argues that the “safety valve” therefore applies because he has two of the “indicators” that can disqualify someone from relief, but not all three.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Chevron transferred – the technical term is “removed” – the case to federal district court in Maryland, a move allowed by federal law. Justice Brett Kavanaugh similarly identified the “ratification” doctrine as a problem for the companies. What do we say to that, he asked at one point?

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TypeLaw Briefing Insights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Any day declared a holiday by the President or Congress, such as the recent National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, is considered a Legal Holiday for the purpose of computing time in the federal court filings. And, as weve detailed in other blog articles, federal rules and local rules can differ widely.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The court ultimately determined that the use of this character or the AFLAC marks did not constitute trademark infringement because the ads constituted core political speech warranting First Amendment protection. The US District Court in Maryland disagreed, finding that the term “goods and services” included “political activities.”

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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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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.

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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. The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Zepeda , No.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The court relisted Escobar back in June 2024 and has been holding it ever since, pending the resolution of Glossip. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Richard Glossip in late February , holding that the prosecution there violated its constitutional obligation under Napue to correct false testimony. Relisted after the Jan.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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The Crime Report

JULY 16, 2021

Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess told the jury that Ramos chose that particular afternoon because there were supposed to be many people in the newsroom.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 29, 2025

Supporting briefs from groups including the Professional Services Council warn the lower courts ruling may chill contractor participation in federal programs. GEOs cert petition insists that denying immediate review frustrates the very purpose of immunity: to avoid litigation burdens in the first place. Relisted after the Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Maryland must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by the government’s suppression of favorable evidence; and (2) whether the judgment of the U.S. relisted after the Sept. 14 conferences). Shoop , 22-5058. Issues : (1) Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady 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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Maryland must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by the government’s suppression of favorable evidence; and (2) whether the judgment of the U.S. relisted after the Sept. 28 and Oct. 7 conferences). Shoop , 22-5058. Issues : (1) Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Maryland must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by the government’s suppression of favorable evidence; and (2) whether the judgment of the U.S. relisted after the Sept. 14 and Oct. 28 conferences). Shoop , 22-5058. Issues : (1) Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady 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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

After a group of federal judges had recommended that an attorney who had represented her in other ADA cases be suspended from practicing law in Maryland because of repeated ethics violations, she explained, she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court and cannot refile it.

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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.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial. The assistant district attorney, the court of appeals ruled, “vouched for the credibility of the State’s witnesses and improperly commented on” Anthony’s guilt, “while using the prestige and dignity of his office to bolster the State’s case.”.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

Fitzgerald , the Supreme Court ruled that “government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”. In 1982, in Harlow v.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 11, 2025

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government met the requirements for a stay, including a likely success on the merits of its appeal, and that it would suffer irreparable harm if the stay is denied.

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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. [

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