JURIST

MARCH 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can be sued for blocking users on social media if the official posts about state matters and is authorized to speak for the state. The Supreme Court crafted this test after hearing two cases in which public officials blocked social media users. In one, Lindke v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2022

have banned certain books as a way to prevent the flow of material that they say might incite violence, the Michigan Department of Corrections has banned dictionaries in Spanish and Swahili under claims that books’ contents are a threat to the state’s penitentiaries, reports NPR. As prison systems across the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a deaf student’s lawsuit against a Michigan school district that failed to provide him with a qualified sign-language interpreter. Before the DOE could hold a hearing, the school board settled Perez’s IDEA claim by agreeing to pay for him to attend the Michigan School for the Deaf.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 22, 2023

“Supreme Court rules for deaf student who says school district failed him; Ruling says young man can pursue Americans with Disabilities Act claim even as he seeks help via Individuals with Disabilities Education Act”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. Supreme Court. ” Justice Neil M.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yesterday, a Michigan judge was the latest to dismiss the effort to prevent voters from being able to vote for Trump. Judge Redford also rejected the effort of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) under state law to remove candidates from the ballot based on that provision.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled in four cases, including People v. Parks and People v. Poole, that sentences of mandatory life without parole (LWOP) for murders committed.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 17, 2021

The litigation over the 2020 election seem to be continuing with a ruling this week from Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law in issuing new rules on absentee balloting before the 2020 election. Here is the opinion: Genetski v. Benson, No.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected Thursday a challenge to the mandatory membership requirements imposed by the State Bar of Michigan. Lucille Taylor, a lawyer from Michigan, challenged the state bar membership mandate on the grounds that it violates her freedom of association.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear the appeal in Balow v. Michigan State University. In 2020, Michigan State University (MSU) discontinued its varsity women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams due to budget cuts. They requested the court reinstate the teams.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. Zeoli , Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan and Shannon Frattaroli , Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. . He did this based on a 2022 U.S. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

The firm Butzel Long cannot defend itself from a malpractice suit using a time-barring statute of repose that hadn't been enacted as law yet at the time when the firm signed a tolling agreement with its former client, a Michigan appellate court ruled.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Bakke , the Supreme Court ruled that the use of racial quotas in college admissions is unconstitutional. Interestingly, the Bakke Court provided the Harvard “plus” program, which considers race only as a plus factor, as a model for an acceptable consideration of race in college admissions. A UCLA-led study found that “??in

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Law 360

JANUARY 31, 2023

Insurers for a glass manufacturer cannot pursue most of their claims against two contractors over a 2017 factory explosion, a Michigan federal court ruled, saying waiver of subrogation clauses in the underlying service contracts bar all causes of action except those arising from gross negligence.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. Rick Snyder.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2023

The state currently has an abortion ban on the books from 1901, although a federal court ruled last year that it cannot be enforced. This comes after voters in several states voted in favor of abortion rights in 2022, including California, Kentucky and Michigan. Abortion has been a contentious issue in Arizona.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 9, 2021

S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. The Court unanimously held that the district court’s dismissal of King’s claims under the FTCA triggered the “judgment bar” in 28 U.S.C. In Brownback v.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

* NJ Supreme Court rules Smith & Wesson has to disclose how they market their guns. Reuters ] * Will do good work for food: Michigan Worker's Comp Lawyers is offering a scholarship for law students come 2022. ABA Journal ] * People who thought the 2020 election was a hoax are running for positions at the Holocaust Memorial.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A Michigan college student cannot proceed with a lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled and punched him after mistaking him for a fugitive, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court unanimously found that the man’s claims against the officers are disqualified by the “judgment.

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Law 360

MARCH 14, 2023

The Michigan Supreme Court says it will let a lower-court ruling stand and not review whether an insurer has standing to challenge a medical clinic's compliance with business incorporation laws as a defense against having to pay no-fault auto claims.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2024

Former President Donald Trump filed an appeal Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the state’s ballot. The original decision will now be on hold until the US Supreme Court rules on the appeal. Trump also appealed the Maine decision.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

.” Former Colorado Republican state senator and lead plaintiff Norma Anderson reacted after the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling, stating, “I was surprised and delighted. I’m very happy with the ruling. I felt they read the Constitution. I sat and watched January 6 all day long, and I cried.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Estelle v. But fifty years later, prisons seem to have deteriorated to Attica-era conditions, writes University of Michigan Professor Heather Ann Thompson for Time.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The question came to the court in a case filed against Virginia Tech by Speech First, a group that describes its mission as putting “colleges and universities on notice that shutting down unwanted speech will no longer be tolerated.” A federal district court ruled that the group lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, several of the plaintiffs challenging the rule came to the court, asking the justices to stay the 6th Circuit’s ruling while their appeals proceed.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer for her misrepresentation of a state supreme court ruling that she violated the state constitution in her pandemic orders, a false account echoed by NBC’s Chuck Todd. However, this was a legal dispute on the scope of her discretion that was resolved by the state courts. I have been highly critical of Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Sekulow urged the court to take up the case quickly “to prevent the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision from having an irreparable effect on the electoral process.” He indicated that he was “prepared to abide by whatever expedited processes this Court may set.” And on Dec.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Since a 1976 Supreme Court ruling , incarcerated individuals are the only group of people in the United States to have a constitutional right to health care. Under Estelle v Gamble , being deprived of “reasonably adequate medical care violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.”.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 10, 2024

Supreme Court ruled that public officials may be held liable for their social media activity in certain circumstances. In 2014, Freed updated his Facebook page to reflect his position as city manager of Port Huron, Michigan. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. In Lindke v. Freed , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Additionally, California and Michigan each have November 8 ballot proposals similar to Vermont’s to amend their state constitutions to protect an individual’s reproductive freedom. Brooke Chmura is a 3L at Vermont Law and Graduate School. If Kansas can do it, so can Vermont.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Although it is possible to make the case that cert before judgment was warranted in at least some of these cases, it is difficult to see how it was warranted in all of them — especially given the high bar that the court has historically applied for bypassing ordinary appellate review.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, the justices declined to review petitions filed by Sidney Powell and Lin Wood , who served as lawyers for Trump, appealing sanctions for their role in a case seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The doctrine, created by a 1982 Supreme Court ruling meant to protect government employees from frivolous lawsuits, is frequently used by police and other law enforcement officials to head off lawsuits over excessive use of force or misconduct. He is still waiting—eight years after the incident—for a trial that might never happen.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. In the Michigan case, six men are charged with a conspiracy that involved kidnapping Whitmer but news outlets like BuzzFeed News have raised serious concerns over how much of the conspiracy was directed and facilitated by the FBI.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court ruled that states could only convict defendants of serious offenses with a unanimous jury verdict. Issue : Whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Ramos v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan. After Ramos , criminal defendant asks justices to preserve non-unanimous acquittals in Puerto Rico.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the district court granted Luxshare’s request to subpoena ZF Automotive US, Inc., a Michigan-based indirect subsidiary, on the ground that a private arbitration counts as a “foreign or international tribunal” for Section 1782. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the CADA.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Previously, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. I was, therefore, gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church.

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