JURIST
JUNE 28, 2024
The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that courts must exercise independent judgment in assessing an agency’s statutory authority. This overruled the deference afforded to an agency’s interpretation of its mandate from Chevron U.S.A. Natural Resources Defense Council. The case of Loper Bright Enterprises v.
JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller v. .” … Now, it seems, the Court is willing to overrule precedent without even acknowledging it is doing so, much less providing any special justification.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 1, 2021
The lower courts blocked Minerva from asserting invalidity because Minerva’s founder had filed the original patent applications and then sold the patent rights, which eventually ended up with Hologic. The lower courts ruled that the founder’s original assignment of patent rights prevented, or “estopped,” Minerva from contesting validity.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
The Supreme Court instructed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to consider whether counsel’s inadequate performance had prejudiced Andrus – that is, whether but for counsel’s deficient performance, the mitigating evidence might have prompted at least one juror to opt for a sentence of life without parole rather than the death penalty.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. In Miller v.
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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