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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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Share For the second time in less than a week, the Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Kevin Johnson, paving the way for Missouri to carry out his lethal injection on Tuesday night. Johnson, who is Black, came to the Supreme Court on Nov. Supreme Court from reviewing it.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

Eastern District of Missouri) entered a default judgment for more than $24 billion against the Peoples Republic of China and eight other Chinese defendants for hoarding personal protective equipment (PPE) during the early days of the COVID pandemic in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. Reposted with permission. Limbaugh, Jr.

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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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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Our justice system is supposed to protect such people by assigning them a “legal guardian” —a surrogate decision-maker who acts under the authority of the probate court or of state laws governing guardianships. The lack of training is particularly telling in Missouri. Abuse of Power. in continuing education courses.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Once again this week, the Supreme Court has been busy sifting through the relists. And the court denied review of a petition raising a First Amendment challenge to university bias-response teams.

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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

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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

APRIL 28, 2025

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a Catholic virtual charter schools bid to become the nations first religious charter school. The states attorney general, Republican Gentner Drummond, went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, seeking an order directing the charter school board to invalidate its contract with St.

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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

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

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

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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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

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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Missouri Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which blocks former President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan from taking effect. The plaintiffs in the case are the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

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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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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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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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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, once celebrated as a stalwart conservative and a crowning achievement of the Trump presidency, now finds herself under fire from the very base that championed her confirmation. Her recent vote in Department of State v. Lets unpack the data.

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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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