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Privilege Takeaways From 3 Cybersecurity Report Rulings

Law 360

A recent Pennsylvania federal court decision compelling Rutter's Inc.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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US Supreme Court declines to review overturned Cosby conviction

JURIST

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to review the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that overturned entertainer Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Cosby appealed the decision, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction in June 2021.

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US Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count provisional votes for defective mail-in ballots

JURIST

The US Supreme Court rejected Friday an RNC application to stay a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that grants voters who cast defective mail-in ballots an option to alternatively cast in-person provisional ballots. The RNC also relied on a 2020 state case, Pennsylvania Democratic Party v.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Third, the court found that BLM used internally inconsistent emission rates. In 2018, the court vacated EPA’s earlier denial of the request.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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