Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 23, 2024

Supreme Court held that 18 U.S.C. Facts of the Case As the Court explained in its opinion, Federal and state law distinguish between two kinds of payments to public officials—bribes and gratuities. The case before the Court involves James Snyder, who is the former mayor of Portage, Indiana. In Snyder v.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 14, 2021

The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted drug dealer who challenged the forfeiture of his Land Rover before the U.S. Supreme Court should…

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. Both lawsuits ask the court to immediately halt implementation of the plan.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a vaccine mandate for Maine health care workers to remain in effect, rejecting an emergency request from workers who argued that they should receive religious exemptions. Two lower courts ruled against them, prompting the workers to seek emergency relief at the Supreme Court last week.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . The court ordered additional briefings, but the lawyer then missed multiple deadlines, claiming earlier orders were lost among numerous notifications on his mobile phone.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Alfred Bourgeois became the 10th person to be put to death by the federal government this year, after the Supreme Court on Friday evening denied his application for a delay of the execution. Federal law and Supreme Court precedent ban the execution of someone who is mentally disabled. The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Estelle v. In recent months, prison uprisings in California, Missouri and Indiana have drawn attention to the medical neglect, abusive guards and prolonged isolation that pervades prisons.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2024

On Thursday, the Indiana Court of Appeals largely affirmed an injunction the trial court had placed on the state’s near-total abortion ban. The Court of Appeals ruling will send the lawsuit back to the trial court to narrow the effect of the trial court injunction. The vote was unanimous.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 28, 2022

At the Supreme Court’s Wednesday conference yesterday, actions of note included: Supreme Court will answer Ninth Circuit employment discrimination question. The court granted review in TriCoast Builders, Inc. The court granted-and-held in Winick v. subdivision (c) and rule 4.576(b) of the California Rules of Court.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2021

police departments is behind an “aggressive” effort to prevent changes in use-of-force standards, according to a forthcoming paper in the Indiana Law Journal. By rejecting policies like de-escalation and rules prohibiting chokeholds?strategies A little-known private consulting firm that drafts policies for thousands of U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is back. On Monday, the court granted nine petitions from the enormous number that built up over the summer. A short explanation of relists is available here. First up is Buffington v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Monday reversed a preliminary injunction previously implemented to bar the enforcement of an Indiana law requiring fetal remains to be either buried or cremated by clinics that provide abortion. The laws require that only abortion providers either bury or cremate fetal remains.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The US Supreme Court refused to hear a case Monday that sought to reverse a lower court ruling allowing same-sex couples to be listed as birth parents on a child’s birth certificate. Hendersen , was appealed from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The case, Box v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

There is an interesting lawsuit out of Indiana where Indianapolis Metro Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer is suing the National Football League (NFL) for defamation after the NFL claimed that his shooting of an African American man was due to “systemic racism.” Screenshot from federal complaint. Evans 750 F.2d

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 15, 2022

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Indiana asks Supreme Court to speed process so state can put its strict abortion law into effect (Ariane de Vogue, CNN). Farah, E&E 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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back. Likewise, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month affirmed such a preliminary injunction against Western Michigan University.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday that a man should not lose his parental rights because of strict parole conditions imposed by another state. In 2014, the father, who is not named in the opinion, was convicted of two felonies involving sexual conduct with a 14-year-old in Indiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court signals openness to curtailing federal regulatory power in potentially major shift (Melissa Quinn, CBS News) Conservatives Once Hailed This Case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal government to execute Dustin Higgs, reversing lower-court orders that had put the execution on hold and drawing strongly worded dissents from two justices. A majority of the Supreme Court ruled that the government’s plan was permissible. And the justices bypassed the U.S.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In one widely publicized case , a young girl, a victim of sexual assault, had to travel to Indiana for care, fuelling local support for enshrining reproductive rights in Ohio’s constitution. Attorney General Dave Yost acknowledged in court filings that the amendment rendered the ban unconstitutional but has indicated plans to appeal.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. He ruled for both the claim of the Plaintiff and the counterclaim of the Defendant and denied any damages to either party. _ Again, the court agreed. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v. Six Flags St.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. In Indiana, in 2015, Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide. If the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, challenges to President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Turkish steel, the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. Trade and national security. Affirmative action.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). The Supreme Court has pushed back on federal agencies trying to regulate speech.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

However, Democrats may also be laying the foundation for Trump to claim vindication in defeating such cases in courts. Such proclamations do better with MSNBC than the DDC (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). The Supreme Court still overturned the conviction. In Brandenburg v. In Hess v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

After sitting in the Supreme Court last Wednesday to hear the oral arguments in Trump v. Diego Morales, the Indiana Secretary of State supporting the petitioner, emphasized that he believed that “the American people should choose who their next leader is, not the court.” I was there as a correspondent for JURIST.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. The Supreme Court still overturned the conviction.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

As famed Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Hard cases make bad law” — and the litigation against President Trump and his associates is a hard case that just proved Holmes right. .” The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected such liability despite the use of inflammatory or even violent words.

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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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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Since 2005, “appellate courts have shown an increasing tendency to grant immunity in excessive force cases,” according to a Reuters investigation. Appellate courts ruled in favor of police receiving qualified immunity in 57% of reviewed cases involving allegations of excessive use of force between 2017 and 2019, the report showed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

They knew that a court would throw out such an indictment and, even if they could find a willing judge, any conviction would be thrown out on appeal. The Supreme Court nevertheless overturned his conviction. That was ruled as the hyperbolic language of advocacy. The reason is that the speech itself was not a crime. In NAACP v.

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