SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: It’s Not My Fault That People Don’t Like the Supreme Court Anymore (Matt Ford, The New Republic). Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Supreme Court rulings related to capital punishment. The ruling makes Simmons eligible for up to $175,000 in compensation from the state for wrongful conviction and opens the door for a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma City and law enforcement involved in his arrest and conviction.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court will consider a whopping 472 petitions and applications at this Friday’s conference, making it the biggest conference since the behemoth end-of-summer “long conference.” A panel of the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday reshaped the relationship between universities and the athletes who play college sports. In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the NCAA’s policies banning those types of compensation “raise serious questions under the antitrust laws.”. Monday’s decision in NCAA v. After the U.S.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 18, 2023

“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. This is reinforced by ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 Currently, most states have created the duty of technology competency by adopting some form of Model Rule 1.1 5, 2014)).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Tuesday in Denezpi v. United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the recent ruling on college athletes by the Supreme Court. After its unanimous Supreme Court loss this week in NCAA v. Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch upheld lower courts in saying that athletes could receive broader benefits related to their education.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. After a dispute over the trademarks for remote controls used to operate heavy construction equipment, a jury awarded Oklahoma-based Hetronic International, Inc. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

Human Rights Campaign Monday condemned Utah Governor Spencer Cox for signing SB16 , a law prohibiting healthcare professionals from providing hormonal treatment to minors who were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the law was signed. The law also prohibits doctors from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a potential replacement for the now-dismissed Servotronics Inc. Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. In ZF Automotive US, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

It appears that Anthony Comstock is having something of a revival in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Senate Bill 1976 would also make posing or exhibiting such images. In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

[ Law.com ] * As expected , Alabama fertility providers are shutting off access to hopeful families after court ruling. [ NPR ] * Oklahoma's legal attacks on Trans folks back in focus after child's death. [ NPR ] * Oklahoma's legal attacks on Trans folks back in focus after child's death. [ Who would steal those?

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Kansas, however, constitutional protections prevent anti-abortion laws from taking effect. In 2019 the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in Hodes & Nauser v. Law professor and Kansas native Greer Donley stated , “Dr. Casey , states are free to ban and restrict abortion within their borders.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. 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.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

. * Another same-sex First Amendment case will be before the Supreme Court soon. South Carolina appeals court upholds lower court ruling that basically says, "You can't just overrule Roe, dude." Oklahoma's AG will be figuring out if time-honored literary classics like Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men are obscene. .

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Share In a term in which the justices are already slated to weigh in on disputes over public funding for private schools that teach religion , the role of spiritual advisers in the execution chamber , and the flying of a religious flag on a city flag pole , the Supreme Court on Friday added another religion case to its docket.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 19, 2021

Madrid , the Supreme Court ruled that the application of physical force by police officers, with the intent to restrain, is a “seizure” for Fourth Amendment purposes, even if the suspect does not submit and is not subdued. City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. Three months ago in Torres v. The circuits have remained split on the issue.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Just three days after the thunderous ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court issued another important decision on a pressing health care issue. In an opinion by Justice Stephen Breyer — the penultimate opinion of his 28-year Supreme Court career — the court chose a subjective standard.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Today, 44 states and the District of Columbia have laws aiming to protect fetal development from drugs or alcohol. Its legal proceedings take place out of public view, under seal, with a low standard of evidence and often a court-appointed attorney for the fetus — but none for the person gestating it. About 400 cases a year.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Congress passed a tax law that allowed taxpayers to deduct from federal income taxation only up to $10,000 of state and local taxes. Then-President Donald Trump described the 2017 law as an “incentive” for taxpayers “to say, hey, make sure that your politicians do a good job of running your state.” New York v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Texas women are exempt from criminal charges under SB8, the state’s highly restrictive new anti-abortion law. 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.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

The bill explains, however, that individuals with “intersex conditions” or “differences in sex development” must be accommodated in compliance with state and federal law. Alabama is one of 23 states , including Louisiana and Texas , that have enacted laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at ASU Law.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court has backed the finding against the lethal injection technique as “cruel and unusual punishment,” which has been in use among states since 1977, said the the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a nonprofit advocacy group. However, pentobarbital supply is limited in the U.S., South Carolina’s Firing Squad.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take an appeal by anti-abortion activists in a First Amendment dispute with Planned Parenthood, as well as a test of New Jersey’s “slogan statutes.” courts Dermody v. The specific question at issue in Mazo v. 6 attacks on the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Utley professor of health law at Boston University School of Public Health and professor of law at Boston University School of Law. “[T]he Occasionally, “rational basis with teeth” finds laws lack even a legitimate purpose – Lawrence v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

The President and the Court appear in agreement. Here is the column: “Consider the challenge accepted, Court.” ” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. .” Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and C.H. Miller involves whether federal laws trump a lawsuit brought against a freight broker by the driver of a car who was seriously injured by a tractor-trailer on a trip arranged by the broker. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. Personalweb Technologies v.

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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. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed.

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