SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2022

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether two groups of North Carolina employees were denied pay or benefits by the state in violation of a federal employment law and the Constitution. The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled for the employees.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals published a pair of opinions Tuesday holding that two people can be charged with murder for brutalizing a child 25 years ago — even though they had already been convicted of child abuse for the same act of violence in the late ‘90s. David Tripp, Jr.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 28, 2023

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Friday that challenges to partisan gerrymandering by the legislature—the process of drawing voting district lines based on political…

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a car passenger had a First Amendment right to livestream a traffic stop in in Winterville, North Carolina.…

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Court originally consolidated two lawsuits to make up this case: one against Harvard College’s admissions process for discrimination against Asian applicants and another against the University of North Carolina for using socioeconomic factors, allegedly incorporating race, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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American Legal Net

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

New Court Rule Sets Available : California Works of Improvement (Including Mechanics Liens) ( CAWIML ) North Carolina Superior Court, 4A District, Duplin, Jones, and Sampson Counties ( NC04AS ). Courts Removed. The post September 1, 2021 Court Rules Update appeared first on American Legal Net.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A. On that basis, the court ruled that the defendants had not satisfied their burden for transfer.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

Share Two years after the court ruled that a disparity in bankrupt debtors’ fees between judicial districts was impermissible, the justices on Friday ruled 6-3 that charging equal fees going forward is an adequate remedy for that disparity. By statute, the U.S.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Proctor relied on similar federal court cases in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, in which the courts ruled that the federal Voting Rights Act superseded state law under the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. The clause allows federal laws to take precedence over conflicting state laws. .”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties.

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Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

Business groups told the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday that they supported Bank of America in its fight against a North Carolina federal court ruling that found the bank wasn't entitled to net the interest on the tax liabilities of Merrill Lynch after the two companies merged.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 24, 2021

However, there is a new ruling out of North Carolina that could present another opportunity for the Court to revisit the issue. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina just ruled that UNC can use race criteria to guarantee a “critical mass” of minority students in its classes. .”

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a North Carolina town’s policy that banning video live-streaming police during traffic stops was in violation of the First Amendment, Lauren Sforza reports for The Hill. The 4th U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2024

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University , which was unfortunately not reviewed by the Supreme Court. I was discussing the Fourth Circuit case of Porter v. Now, as feared, it is being replicated by the Sixth Circuit in Gruber v. of Trustees.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005 under Supreme Court Rule 799(c) to foster increased civility, professionalism and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in Illinois.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled in Siegel v. The United States has 94 districts for bankruptcy proceedings in federal court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

He first started sketching Supreme Court arguments in the 1977-78 term, when Regents of the University of California v. I would like to prevail on him to go one more term and have some symmetry by sketching the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative-action cases, but it seems that his mind is made up.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

University of North Carolina. Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. In Bakke, the court ruled against affirmative action in a fractured decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The injuries in Clendening were not the sort of combat-related or even job-related injuries one would expect: petitioner Carol Clendening seeks to recover for her late husband’s exposure to toxic drinking water while serving as a judge advocate general officer at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Harvard College and SFFA v. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. Judges should certify that the “Brady rule,” mandated under a 1963 Supreme Court ruling, is followed at each criminal trial. Some 23 states have adopted these verbatim or with some modifications. Certify Compliance.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Last June, the Supreme Court invalidated the undergraduate admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, holding that they violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment by explicitly considering applicants’ race. The justices will be reconsidering three cert petitions for the first time.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In her initial expert disclosures, plaintiff identified Dr. Steege from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The trial court ruled that “Dr. Steege did not meet the locality rule outlined in Shipley v. Code Ann. § 26-26-115(b). Williams , 350 S.W.3d 3d 527 (Tenn. 2011),” and accordingly excluded his testimony.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled Thursday that people who are or have been in a dating relationship with a same-sex partner are equally protected against domestic violence as persons in opposite-sex relationships placed in a similar situation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. But during nearly five hours of oral arguments on Monday, the court’s conservative majority signaled that it could be ready now, 19 years after Grutter , to end the use of race in college admissions. Ryan Park argues for the University of North Carolina.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2021

In 2014, a University of North Carolina professor found that as many as ten percent of the school’s football and basketball players could not read above a third-grade level. What was most striking in the Alston case was the open skepticism over the role of the NCAA in comparison to the last major review from the Court.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a North Carolina school’s dress code requiring females to wear skirts violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. ” Male students were required to wear shorts or pants.

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Customs & International Trade Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Co. to the UFLPA Entity List , June 2023 A New Era in Cosmetics Regulation: The Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act , May 2023 Can A False Claims Act Qui Tam Case, Alleging Customs Fraud, Be Filed And Pursued Anonymously?,

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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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ABA Journal

APRIL 27, 2022

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a former assistant federal public defender in North Carolina can sue court officials for constitutional violations stemming from…

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2023

(Josh Gerstein, Politico) Another One Bites the Dust: End of 2022/2023 Supreme Court Term Statistics (Adam Feldman & Jake Truscott, Empirical SCOTUS) Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) Biden offers new student debt relief plan, lashes out at GOP after Supreme Court ruling (Will (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

The justices did not act on several high-profile petitions that they considered last week, including a challenge to New York’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers and a North Carolina case asking the justices to weigh in on the election-law doctrine known as the “independent state legislature” theory. But the U.S.

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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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SquirePattonBoggs

MARCH 11, 2024

Had Relentless still been pending at the court of appeals when an eight-member Court took up Loper Bright (it wasn’t), the First Circuit would have a had a good case to certify. (The University of North Carolina , No. 21-707, as evidenced by the Court’s grant of certiorari before judgment.)

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