SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Over a dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito, the court sent the case back to the lower courts with instructions to dismiss it as moot (that is, no longer a live controversy) because Virginia Tech, the university at the center of the case, had changed its policy.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Here’s the Friday morning read: A Louisiana man whose conviction was overturned in a Supreme Court ruling against split juries is found not guilty at new trial (Corky Siemaszko, NBC News) Outside groups take a first stab at a Supreme Court ethics code (Nina Totenberg, NPR) West Virginia to ask US Supreme Court to allow transgender athlete ban (Andrew (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2022

In the last opinion of the term, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a group of Republican-led states and coal companies to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions system-wide. EPA , and what it means for the future of climate regulation.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The US Supreme Court issued an order on Wednesday permitting the state of Virginia to continue to remove voters from its election rolls with just five days until the federal election. The DOJ sought declaratory or injunctive relief for Virginia to comply with the NVRA.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled on September 3, 2021. Striking a blow to patent applicants seeking to assert inventorship by artificial intelligence ("AI") systems, the U.S.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Virginia elections officials filed an emergency application to stay with the US Supreme Court Monday, requesting the court restore a state program that would remove 1,600 individuals from state voter lists. The federal district court ruled that the order violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Laws, rules, regulations, and opinions vary by jurisdiction. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No. By advancing the highest standards of conduct among lawyers and judges, the Commission works to better serve clients and society alike.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Delaware's Supreme Court on Monday overturned a 2022 Chancery Court order that dismissal of federal opioid-related damage claims against AmerisourceBergen in West Virginia justified scuttling a multibillion-dollar stockholder derivative lawsuit, finding the decision "inconsistent" with the court's rules for derivative actions and evidence.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Abbott case arose from a long-running multidistrict litigation against the chemical company DuPont by people who allege that they were injured by the company’s release of a chemical known as C-8, used in the production of Teflon, into the air, landfills, and river near its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

This means that the court must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant meant to harm the individual before being provoked or engaging in a mutually combated altercation. Courts have struggled to define “initial aggression” since at least 1925 when, in Scott v. Similarly, in People v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a magnet school in the Virginia D.C. The federal district court in Virginia agreed with the challengers and ordered TJ to stop using the new admissions policy. The most prominent of this week’s relists, Coalition for TJ v. A panel of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416,

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which granted summary judgment in favor of the USPTO. Then Thaler appealed the district court’s ruling to the Federal Circuit. Therefore, the USPTO found the Patent Act would not allow AI machines to be inventors. Thaler appealed to the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the SEC cannot use its administrative authority to impose civil penalties for securities fraud on the ground that these penalties violate the U.S. By JP Ellison & Anne K. Walsh — It took only 3 months. Constitution’s Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. See SEC v Jarkesy , 144 S.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2021

The Supreme Court of Virginia Thursday ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove two Confederate statues, including one of General Robert E. Among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against the city were the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., and The Monument Fund, Inc.

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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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LegalReader

JANUARY 30, 2023

Landfill nuisance case gets moved to mediation.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Indeed, before other Englishmen were given a written guarantee of the right to bear arms, colonists in Virginia in 1607 were given such a written guarantee by the Crown. That is evident from the fact that it was not until 2008 that the Supreme Court finally recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v.

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Patently O

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. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. Heller , recognizing the Second Amendment as encompassing an individual right to bear arms. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Tuesday granted posthumous pardons to the Martinsville Seven , a group of young Black men who were tried, convicted and executed in 1951 without sufficient due process and given the death sentence by a racially biased all-White male jury. Virginia became the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty in March.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial $6.6 billion natural-gas pipeline spanning just over 300 miles, from West Virginia’s northwestern border to southern Virginia. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

In a case involving a former inmate who accused a Virginia prison of discrimination, a federal appeals court has held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers individuals with “gender dysphoria.”. The ruling expanded the legal consensus on the discrimination protections available to some transgender people.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The legislature drew the map after a federal district court ruled that the prior plan, created in 2022, likely violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which prohibits election practices that result in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote based on race, by diluting the votes of the state’s Black residents.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2024

” Since the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Similar proposals that also reference the Meet Baby Olivia video have been introduced in Kentucky, West Virginia, North Dakota, Missouri, and Iowa.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. Ninth Circuit Rejected Claim That CEQA Applied to Taxi Rules for Airport Pickups. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court judgment rejecting challenges to San Francisco regulations that dictated which taxi medallion holders could pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Virginia , a 2002 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment forbids executing people with intellectual disabilities. Lower courts rejected those arguments, and his attorneys asked the justices on Monday to intervene.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Twentieth century uprisings for expanded prison rights — what Driver and Kaufman call the “prisoners’ rights revolution” — ended in the late 1980s, with the Supreme Court ruling Turner vs. Safley. Incarcerated people have long contested penal policies, from stipulations on prayer to codes dictating beard length.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v. Virginia that it is unconstitutional to execute someone who is mentally disabled. After receiving his death sentence, Bourgeois sought a ruling from a federal court in Texas that he was intellectually disabled and thus barred from execution. His appeal was unsuccessful.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. United States (involving the prosecution of the former Virginia governor), Kelly v. Think McDonnell v. United States (the “bridgegate” case), and this term’s cases Percoco v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Nine years after Brown’s trial, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Relying on Atkins, Brown went back to state court, seeking to overturn his death sentence.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

It was in response to the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. In that case, the court ruled that the government could take someone’s property for private economic development under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Claus, saying it qualified as a “public use.” New London.

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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. As the legal maxim says: justice delayed is justice denied.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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The Crime Report

JULY 8, 2021

Governor of California , the courts ruled that indefinite confinement of alleged gang members was a human rights violation. That ruling resulted in the state of California having to reduce its solitary confinement population by 97 percent. In Virginia, inmates are allowed to have TVs, music players and contact visits.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. Nunes did not ask for such a correction under California law because he filed in Virginia. It was a cascading deconstruction of the lawsuit.

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