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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FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Kirschenbaum — Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act does not prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing conditions on the distribution of discounted drugs to covered entities in the program. By Sophia R. Gaulkin & Alan M.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. After the Supreme Court’s spring cleaning last week , the justices were down to just two relists on their rolls. The Supreme Court relisted four cases this week. But the court relisted Sanders instead.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Missouri , 603 U. Supreme Court held that two States and five individual social-media users who sued dozens of Executive Branch officials and agencies, alleging that the Government pressured the platforms to censor their speech in violation of the First Amendment, lacked Article III standing to bring their suits. In Murthy v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Judge Terry Douglas of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Tuesday blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US health care workers. The court noted concerns about the loss of healthcare workers who could potentially quit over the vaccine mandate.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. Read it here. He’s an attorney licensed to practice in California since 2011.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Jordan is a third-year law student at the University of Missouri and a registered patent agent. While standing was not necessary to file an IPR because of the administrative nature of the PTAB, standing is a constitutional requirement for appeal to the federal courts. Guest Post by Jordan Duenckel. Inter partes review is not unique.

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JURIST

JUNE 10, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court decision to block enforcement of a Missouri law that would place tight restrictions on access to abortion. The first bans abortion after eight weeks, with an exception in the case of a medical emergency but not in cases of rape or incest.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The US Supreme Court denied a petition to hear an appeal Tuesday concerning the exclusion of potential jurors based on the jurors’ religious beliefs in a Missouri sex discrimination case. The post US Supreme Court declines to hear Missouri case excluding jurors based on religious beliefs appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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. 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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is back in the relist business with a vengeance. The court will be considering 123 petitions and applications at this week’s conference. The district court refused, but the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes, who served on the court from 1930 to 1941, called Dred Scott the Court’s great “self-inflicted wound.”. Supreme Court. Sound familiar?

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in the Biden administration’s appeal of lower-court rulings that required immigration officials to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that the administration “has twice determined is not in the interests of the United States,” reports the Associated Press.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program. The district court denied the States’ motion for a preliminary injunction and dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction after determining none of the States had standing to bring the lawsuit. In Biden v. Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S.

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Law 360

JUNE 26, 2024

Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to reverse a Fifth Circuit order prohibiting the Biden administration from joining with social media platforms to fight misinformation leaves an important First Amendment question unanswered and left Missouri's attorney general promising a continuing fight against what he called a "censorship regime."

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 21, 2024

Louis, Missouri , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must show that the transfer brought about some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment, but that harm need not be significant. City of St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First proposed in 2014, the 780-mile transmission line is intended to transport electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas to customers in Indiana, passing through Missouri and Illinois along the way. Many commentators subsequently complained that the court’s decision would severely limit FERC’s ability to advance interstate projects.

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JURIST

JULY 20, 2024

A US federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from implementing its student debt relief plan. Attorney General of Missouri Andrew Bailey stated , “We can’t let Joe Biden saddle working Missouri families with Ivy League debt. billion for 662,000 public servants, and $10.5

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea from Missouri to block New York from imposing a gag order and sentencing former President Donald Trump in his criminal proceedings there until after the 2024 elections. Missouri has also not shown, James continued, that New York is causing it any harm.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court had two weeks off between considering which cases to review, which unsurprisingly means the justices have a lot of petitions before them for Thursday’s conference: 249 by my count. Badgerow v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals. 20-1045 (D.C.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

He said the amendment was important to protect tribal sovereignty from Supreme Courts that often don’t understand the rights tribal nations have. It was in response to the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. Although not as emphatic as the first two, it is still a clear call from this generation for a truly democratic system.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. FEATURED CASE. States and Coal Company Sought Review of D.C. 20-1530 (U.S. 20-1531 (U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2022

The bill is scheduled to take effect this summer when the Oklahoma legislature adjourns, but its future will probably hinge on a Supreme Court decision expected this summer, when the justices will rule on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in a case that could overturn or significantly roll back Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. It’s been a blissful, relist-free month since the court’s last conference. Palmer , which was overseen by a conventional one-judge district court, was decided first. Palmer would ordinarily go through the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

Share In a short procedural order, the Supreme Court on Monday morning threw out a lower-court ruling allowing a state court clerk to be sued for telling a pregnant teenager that her parents must be notified of their child’s desire to seek an abortion without their consent. Both a federal district court in Missouri and the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These statutes proscribe unlawful conduct in general terms, establishing broad principles as to how markets should operate, leaving courts and regulatory authorities to inquire into the facts of a given challenged business practice. court decisions finding antitrust violations in connection with climate pledges.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Investors who want the flexibility to consider all relevant risks to their investments have challenged these rules and laws in court, and, in both state and federal cases, the effort has succeeded. Recent Victories The decision from Missouri, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association [ (SIFMA) ] v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Creative Commons, NYC Manhattan Skyline.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. The viability framework.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the legality of President Joe Biden’s massive student-loan forgiveness plan. If the statute is ambiguous, courts must presume that Congress have not given the agency the power in question. Several court decisions ruled against Trump on the merits.

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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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