JURIST

MAY 26, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can keep its revised regulations on how stock market data is collected, consolidated, and disseminated. In 2020 the SEC introduced the new Market Data Infrastructure Rule.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a 5 t-4 vote, the US Supreme Court granted a request on Tuesday to temporarily stay a ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas that vacated a rule regarding “ghost guns” from the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

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HowAppealing

JULY 9, 2024

“97-Year-Old Judge Newman to Appeal Loss in Suspension Suit; US’s oldest active jurist is taking on judicial conduct law; DC court ruled her constitutional challenge fell short”: Michael Shapiro and Jorja Siemons of Bloomberg Law have this report. District Court for the District of Columbia at this link.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

Share The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next terms Barrett v. The federal government, which prevailed in the lower court last May, has declined to defend that ruling at the Supreme Court. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 1, 2023

Natural Resources Defense Council , the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reversed.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is the latest loss of the city, which continues to pass legislation that runs afoul of governing Supreme Court precedent. Ironically, the District was behind some of the greatest losses for gun control advocates. In District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states.

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JURIST

APRIL 18, 2025

US District Court for the District of Columbia judge James Boasberg on Friday denied an emergency motion to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) halting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). However, the court declined to grant the TRO or set a hearing date.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding. In Miller v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2022

As predicted , the Supreme Court handed down a momentous opinion in favor of Second Amendment rights today in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. In 2008, the Supreme Court recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.

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Chugh LLP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A United States District Court has ordered the Department of State (DOS) to make an effort to expedite diversity visa (DV) 2021 application processing by September 30, 2021. This Diversity Visa court ruling should lead to faster DV-2021 application processing. By: Kirti Kalra. DV cases will be processed in rank order. [1]

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow “initial aggressor” limitations on self-defense claims. 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. Similarly, in People v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court ruled that states could only convict defendants of serious offenses with a unanimous jury verdict. After Ramos , the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico ruled that the case “overturned our constitutional clause.” The Puerto Rico Supreme Court, however, disagreed, ruling that Ramos applied to both.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

With the acquisition, Fastcase became the sole legal research provider for the bar associations of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. He described the service as a basic research service with cases, statutes, administrative materials and court rules. million lawyers in the country.

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JURIST

APRIL 18, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday held that a Massachusetts law banning the sale, transfer, or possession of an assault weapon is not unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. ” Interpreting the US Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Facebook plug-ins violate the Wiretap Act and whether the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms outside the home or after a conviction for a nonviolent offense. District of Columbia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation heard oral argument in a case under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act concerning choice-of-law rules. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in early 2019. On remand, the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case arising out of that election, Federal Election Commission v. Cruz went to federal court in 2019, asking the court to block enforcement of Section 304 on the ground that it violates the First Amendment. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 25, 2021

More than two dozen states — including Massachusetts — and the District of Columbia have already disallowed putting juveniles behind bars for life with no chance at parole. Washington state’s high court earlier this year abolished automatic life without parole sentences given to people for murders committed as 18- to 20-year-olds.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We have been discussing ( here and here and here ) the Supreme Court challenge in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen , the first Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court in over ten years. In 2008, the Supreme Court recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. Justices have been openly discussing a case to push back on lower courts that have been chipping away at its Second Amendment jurisprudence. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will take up arguably the oldest and most controversial right in our history. Bruen is the first major gun rights case in over ten years to come before the Supreme Court and it has the makings of a major gun rights victory in the making. New York State Rifle Association v. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Instead, seemingly the only thing that would slow the auction would be an adverse result in the appeals of the auction rules filed by Sinclair Broadcasting and the NAB – appeals that have been briefed and argued in front of the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. FEATURED CASE.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 12, 2024

The next steps in the TikTok collective action The collective action against TikTok that was brought before the Amsterdam District Court under the Dutch WAMCA in 2021. In an earlier blogpost we reported that the Amsterdam District Court ruled that it had international jurisdiction under the Brussels I-bis Regulation and the GDPR.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it. FEATURED CASE. A divided D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2022

In October 2021, the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the US “no longer has a legal basis to justify the continued detention,” having found that Gul had been an HIA member but not that of Al-Qaeda. The court ordered his release.

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JURIST

JULY 10, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld a law that combats online child sex trafficking called the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (FOSTA). The case is an appeal from the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2023

A federal appellate court in Texas ruled late Wednesday night that the abortion drug mifepristone is to remain available on a limited basis pending an ongoing legal dispute. These conflicting rulings may require the US Supreme Court’s intervention to resolve the conflict.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2021

” The appeals court held that the intelligence agencies “logically and plausibly explained why the existence or nonexistence of responsive records is classified information.” These organizations submitted the requests in October 2018, shortly after Khashoggi’s murder.

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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 Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that had put construction in the Jefferson National Forest, in southern Virginia, on hold while challenges from environmental groups to the construction continue.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders. Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. The ruling has since been appealed to the 5th Circuit Court. He did this based on a 2022 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court held a special session on Monday to honor the late Justice John Paul Stevens, who died in 2019 at age 99. He was an “absurdly competent and productive person” who wrote more separate opinions than any other justice in the history of the court, Baron said. David Baron, the chief judge of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2009, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, based on prior court rulings, there had been a “clearly established” right not to be shackled during labor since September 2003. The District of Columbia and 31 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. An Oregon-based timber company went to federal court in Oregon to challenge the monument’s expansion. The Oregon district court rejected the timber company’s challenge. But the D.C. On appeal, the U.S.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “ Federal judge suggests national right to abortion exists after Supreme Court ruling; Clinton appointee questions whether 13th Amendment protects national right to abortion.” ” You can access today’s ruling of the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 6, 2024

Over the past few years, opponents of offshore wind energy have filed at least 15 lawsuits against 5 projects in federal court. One tactic that plaintiffs in these lawsuits sometimes use is to move for a preliminary injunction to halt construction until the court reaches a final decision on the merits.

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