SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This case, which will be argued on Tuesday, addresses the standard of review that federal habeas courts should use when assessing state courts’ prior determinations that constitutional trial errors were harmless. Ayala , the Supreme Court held that AEDPA did not displace Brecht , but rather that Brecht “subsumes” AEDPA.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

Snyder, who is the first current or former Michigan governor to be charged with crimes related to their time in office, and his legal team continue to attack the case, claiming he can’t be charged in a Flint court with neglect of duty when he worked miles away in Ingham County.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

Davenport , the Supreme Court held on Thursday that a federal court cannot grant habeas relief to a convicted state prisoner whose constitutional rights were violated at trial unless that prisoner satisfies both the judicially-created Brecht v. The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Share In Brown v. In Brecht v.

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Law 360

MARCH 27, 2025

A Michigan packaging company's tax exemption appeal was properly dismissed by the state Tax Tribunal over a lack of jurisdiction, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled, overturning an appellate court decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Brown v. Davenport to consider whether a Michigan prisoner, whose constitutional right to a fair trial was violated when he was visibly shackled before the jury, is entitled to habeas corpus relief. As the case preview explained, in Brecht v. Many of the justices seemed to agree.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The court moved Mallory v. 31): Whether to overrule the court’s 2003 decision in Grutter v.

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Intelligize Blog

JUNE 18, 2024

The stock market killed it first, but now the SEC has picked up a shovel and buried SPACs for good,” pronounced the Michigan Journal of Economics. SPACs also got some good news recently courtesy of a Delaware Chancery Court decision dismissing claims challenging “de-SPAC” merger disclosures.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Report authors highlighted a recent Supreme Court decision in Canada. Florida has the highest count of incarcerated people serving life without parole sentences.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 29, 2022

As the Supreme Court begins to look at a liability case of two physicians already found guilty of pill peddling hundreds of thousands of opioids, doctors are becoming increasingly reluctant to prescribe opioids for pain treatment for fear of being criminally charged in the future , according to an analysis by Bloomberg Law.

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Law 360

JANUARY 25, 2024

it wouldn't reverse a Michigan federal court's decision "willy-nilly" at oral arguments Thursday, when the firm sought to prevent partial reimbursement for underlying stock valuation litigation while its insurer continued to fight for total payback. A Sixth Circuit panel told investment firm Stout Risius Ross Inc.

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Law 360

MAY 3, 2022

The Seventh Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision to toss a suit from childcare centers in Illinois and Michigan seeking insurance coverage for claims related to closures caused by COVID-19, ruling Tuesday that they did not allege "direct physical loss of or damage to" property, as required under their policies.

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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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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Public officials in Maine, Maryland, Michigan and California have already proposed or passed measures to curb what they say is a rise in targeted harassment related to demonstrations against public vaccination efforts and pandemic rules, reports the Wall Street Journal. limiting hours for protests aimed at a particular home.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 18, 2023

Supreme Court held that a deaf student seeking compensatory damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for the denial of a free and appropriate education may proceed without exhausting the administrative processes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) because the remedy sought is not one IDEA provides.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Supreme Court struck down the college admissions programs of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Court held that the raced-based policies violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. In both cases, the lower courts upheld the admissions policies, and Students for Fair Admissions appealed.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. She said she disguised 911 call analysis in court by “getting creative … without calling it ‘science.’”. “I Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court said Thursday voters can decide whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, rejecting a challenge that a…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Vermont will also serve as a beacon of hope for women across the country who feared their fundamental right to abortion was lost forever due to a conservative Supreme Court. Jackson overruling Roe v. The final vote was 211,157 in favor of adoption and 63,995 against.

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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Hirshfeld has the legal power to fulfill the expanded job as required by the Supreme Court’s decision. The leading Supreme Court decision, United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Unlike the Harvard University case , in which the same petitioner, Students for Fair Admissions, is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the U.S. And from August 2004 through February 2019, the court did not grant a single petition for cert before judgment (in United States v. Research by Steve Vladeck.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a clash over whether a North Carolina-based company can challenge the Food and Drug Administrations denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana. The company, R.J.

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2022

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Wednesday declaring that the state will not extradite people who have been criminally charged for any role in an abortion procedure unless required to do so by the US Constitution. In May, a Michigan judge granted an injunction to stop the state’s 1931 law banning abortion.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2024

”) in Michigan who was ordered to remove this sweater with the popular phrase “Let’s Go, Brandon.” District Judge Paul Maloney in the Western District of Michigan. Courts too have recognized how seemingly innocuous phrases may convey profane messages. ” We now have a ruling from U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court accepting two cases dealing with racial preferences in college admissions. Here is the column: Last year, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s “train whistle” docket with cases on abortion, guns, immigration, and other issues barreling down the track. Second, courts change.

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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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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

From the website: On March 28 2025, Jenner & Block filed a lawsuit to stop an unconstitutional executive order that has already been declared unlawful by a federal court. We once again go to court to do just that. We expect to prevail quickly. 2 Trump Executive Order Targets WilmerHale, Citing Robert Mueller Ties. Read more here.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 10, 2023

We are awaiting the potential blockbuster ruling of the Supreme Court in the Harvard and North Carolina college admissions cases. After decades of conflicting and confusing rulings on the use of race as a factor for admissions, the Court could be close to rejecting the practice. Second, courts change. Bakke (1978).

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Colorado Republican State Central Committee (CRSCC) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari Wednesday to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision which removed former president Donald Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court found Trump engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, six Supreme Court justices noted that the nation was grappling with this deeply divisive issue in 1973 but that “Roe abruptly ended that political process.” The court has now declared that the future of abortion will rest with 330 million Americans rather than nine justices. How much has changed.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday in what is shaping up to be the biggest election case since its ruling nearly 25 years ago in Bush v. Although the question comes to the court in a case from Colorado, the impact of the court’s ruling could be much more far-reaching. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Judge Wallace rejected the use of the amendment to prevent voters from voting for Trump in the 2024 election, declaring that “[t]he Court holds there is scant direct evidence regarding whether the presidency is one of the positions subject to disqualification.” Accordingly, “[t]he Court orders the Secretary of State to place Donald J.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

From the Washington Post : A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of ordering a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip , whose long-running appeal attracted broad support after independent investigations revealed prosecutorial misconduct. Law Firm Following Court Approval. 2 KPMG to Launch U.S.

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