EvidenceProf Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Kentucky, the Supreme Court "ruled that a State may not discriminate on the basis of race when exercising peremptory challenges against prospective jurors in a criminal trial."* In Batson v. Under Batson, once the opponent of a peremptory challenge has.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 3, 2022

Black Sites Are State Secrets, the Supreme Court Rules; A Guantánamo detainee had sought information from two former government contractors to aid in a Polish criminal inquiry into a facility there”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that officers pursuing someone suspected of a misdemeanor cannot always enter a home without a warrant if a suspect enters. Kentucky Gov. Over the past year, many people have denounced warrants, saying that they give dangerous and unconstrained power to police.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

There is an interesting fight brewing in Kentucky between Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Gov. Beshear has correctly cited a major victory recently before the Kentucky Supreme Court — an unanimous decision in favor of his authority to issue pandemic orders. Andy Beshear. In Beshear v.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Catch up this week with a look at the National Labor Relations Board's draft rule on joint employers, four ways employers could lend a hand to working moms, and the fallout for franchisors of a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling on employee classifications.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a capital defendant’s request for habeas relief on the ground that his lawyer conceded guilt over his objection, as in 2018’s McCoy v. After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts. In Tyler v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit challenging two Kentucky abortion bans for violating the state’s constitutional right to privacy and self-determination. In February 2023, the Supreme Court of Kentucky declined a similar challenge to the abortion bans. Wade in June 2022.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Kentucky , the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to strike jurors in a criminal trial because of their race. Over Johnson’s objection, the trial court reinstated the Black juror.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

Today Bob Baffert, the trainer of the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, admitted today that the now disqualified horse was treated with an anti-fungal ointment called Otomax, which includes betamethasone. So in the 147th Kentucky Derby people put down huge sums not just on the winning horse but horses to place and show.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2022

Judge David Bunning of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled Friday that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 1, 2022

“Kentucky’s attorney general can now enforce trigger law banning abortion, court rules”: Alex Acquisto of The Lexington Herald-Leader has this report.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. punitive damages.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. The public debate in patent law has often focused on whether courts and juries are getting patent damages right. Moreover, individual court rules are now requiring greater transparency. Dupont (E.D.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Wednesday blocked the enforcement of a Louisville ordinance that prevented the obstruction of healthcare facilities by individuals. The court ruled Wednesday in favor of the plaintiffs, stating that the ten-foot buffer limits the free speech rights of individuals protesting at abortion clinics.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MARCH 11, 2024

Four years ago, the Supreme Court declined a federal habeas petitioner’s request to review the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Avery v. Justice Kavanaugh, the Sixth Circuit’s assigned circuit justice, attached a “ statement ” to the Supreme Court’s cert. But the Court turned it away. United States , 770 F. 1080, 1081 (2020).

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

US District Judge Liles Burke rejected a request from the US government to stay the case while appeals courts determine the appropriate standard of review for state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, which is a central issue to the case before Burke.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. The court held four years ago in Betterman v. In 1999, a state appeals court ordered the resentencing of two of Lambert’s crimes. One month after he filed his petition, the court ruled in Ramos v.

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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? The ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has been described as such by many judicial commentators and experts in the middle of the spectrum, and a large segment of the 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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Supreme Court Justice Brandeis wrote in 1932 “[i]t is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 13, 2022

And, if you fail to address corpus linguistics in your brief, you may receive a letter from the court requesting you to submit supplemental briefing correcting the omission. In dispute were the district court’s reading of the first two elements. Bonta , which involved the Second Amendment. 20-56174, 2022 U.S. LEXIS 12657, at *16 n.6

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court granted an emergency request for stay led by Idaho officials, allowing the state to temporarily enforce a statewide ban on gender-affirming care for certain minors. T his ban is one of the first cases related to transgender health care to reach the nation’s highest court. Labrador v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2021

Courts have upheld the right of citizens to insult police, which is an unfortunate aspect of policing. Thus, in 2015, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that police could not arrest a 17-year-old who called them “pigs.” In Kentucky, the sponsor, Republican state Sen.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Biden administration’s request to be allowed to temporarily enforce most of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding, while its appeals continued.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2022

NY's Supreme Court rules cops can't use chokeholds again. Judge continues ban on a Kentucky law that would prohibit abortion. [ Gotta look out for our buddies. Action News ]. Not sure why it was brought back in vogue but alright. [ Kamala Harris gives Oklahoma's abortion law anything but the OK. [ NBC News ].

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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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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday vacated a preliminary injunction blocking Executive Order 13990. The plaintiffs are a group of Republican-led states, including Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming. In an opinion by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr.,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

However, these Democrats insist that a unilateral decision from Ferriero declaring it ratified would mean it is ratified … at least until some courts say otherwise. Democratic members and advocacy groups have pushed to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has handed down a significant ruling on the exception to the First Amendment for criminal threats. The court reversed the decision of District Court Judge Charles Breyer, who rejected the charges against Howard Weiss who threatened Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. After going two conferences without any new relists, the Supreme Court ended the relist drought this week with a vengeance. Kentucky ex rel. Kentucky and Tennessee then asked the U.S. Skrmetti , L.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron can defend the state’s controversial law restriction abortion. The law was challenged by EMW Women’s Surgical Center—which is the sole abortion provider in Kentucky.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2023

The state currently has an abortion ban on the books from 1901, although a federal court ruled last year that it cannot be enforced. This comes after voters in several states voted in favor of abortion rights in 2022, including California, Kentucky and Michigan. Abortion has been a contentious issue in Arizona.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2024

” Since the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Similar proposals that also reference the Meet Baby Olivia video have been introduced in Kentucky, West Virginia, North Dakota, Missouri, and Iowa.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

The tactic was used in an incident that led to the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2020. Since 2005, “appellate courts have shown an increasing tendency to grant immunity in excessive force cases,” according to a Reuters investigation. And the question is how do you balance where the line should be drawn?”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Kentucky’s attorney general should have been allowed to intervene to defend a state law restricting abortion after another state official declined to do so – even when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit had already struck down the law.

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