SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades , Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments. The world closed in to keep the virus out, and so did the court. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I

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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. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that decision, the NCAA and the athletic conferences went to the Supreme Court, which late last year agreed to take up the case. After the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday night took a step that anti-abortion activists have hoped for, and abortion-rights supporters have feared, since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg nearly a year ago. Many experts expected the court to act before midnight central time, when the law was scheduled to take effect.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

Plaintiff also testified that he printed the power of attorney form online, and that anytime he presented the document, he stated that he was not sure of its legality. The Court explained that it was “not free to disregard the discussion in Owens directly addressing the issue before [it].” In Welch v. National Health Corp. ,

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G. .”

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

That changed this week, with announcements from different parts of the federal bureaucracy aimed at supporting and protecting reproductive health in the new landscape created by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. For legal authority, HHS is relying on the ??1986

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to the Espy File and DPIC , there have been more than 16,000 people in colonial and post-colonial America executed in a legal process since 1608. The DPIC reports that only four states—Mississippi, Utah, South Carolina and Oklahoma—allow for execution by firing squad as an alternative method of execution. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for a major ruling next year on abortion – one that could upend the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. Casey , in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus becomes viable. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit a long-simmering tension between legal protections for LGBTQ people and the rights of business owners who oppose same-sex marriage. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected her arguments , Smith came to the Supreme Court. The case, 303 Creative v. When the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. All shaped the court in their own ways. The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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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. The case of Lizette Herrera, a 26-year-old South Texas woman, is already well known. If the U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

Other states, such as Nebraska and Oklahoma , have succeeded in enacting legislation that defines sex on reproductive terms, and Mississippi is currently attempting to do the same. An Alabama Senate committee advanced a comparable bill in February.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v. In Carson v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Court’s most watched case this term on abortion rights. The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2021

Legal challenges have argued that such lengthy sentences handed down to young people amount to de facto life-without-parole terms. The ruling, in Jones v. Seventy-five New Mexicans are currently serving sentences longer than 15 years for crimes they committed before they were 18, according to the Coalition.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Share Lawyers for the state of Texas urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortions in place. But if the court opts to review the merits of the law on an expedited basis, Texas continued, it should use the case as an opportunity to overrule the court’s landmark decisions in Roe v.

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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. After the bill is approved by the state senate, it will go to Republican Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on upcoming year for the Supreme Court. The Court’s docket is likely to put the institution at ground zero of a heated election year. Here is the column: The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once observed that “it’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. The court’s third liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also dissented, though she did not join Roberts’ opinion.). An abortion prelude. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. The fall of Roe.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Former President Donald Trump is suing CNN in a $475 million defamation lawsuit, according to a complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday. It is not exactly the context that counsel would want when seeking to hold CNN liable for defamatory comments in a difficult legal action. He prevailed at trial.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Share When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Katie Barlow).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. appeals court judge named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to fill White’s seat.

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