SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a deaf student’s lawsuit against a Michigan school district that failed to provide him with a qualified sign-language interpreter. Before the DOE could hold a hearing, the school board settled Perez’s IDEA claim by agreeing to pay for him to attend the Michigan School for the Deaf.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next Monday in a case that could have major implications for racial equality and college admissions. When newly seated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case, the Court split them back up so that she could hear the case against North Carolina.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear the appeal in Balow v. Michigan State University. In 2020, Michigan State University (MSU) discontinued its varsity women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams due to budget cuts. They requested the court reinstate the teams.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 22, 2023

“Supreme Court rules for deaf student who says school district failed him; Ruling says young man can pursue Americans with Disabilities Act claim even as he seeks help via Individuals with Disabilities Education Act”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. Supreme Court. ” Justice Neil M.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A Michigan college student cannot proceed with a lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled and punched him after mistaking him for a fugitive, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court unanimously found that the man’s claims against the officers are disqualified by the “judgment.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. The ruling has since been appealed to the 5th Circuit Court. Zeoli , Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan and Shannon Frattaroli , Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. . He did this based on a 2022 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. The court also agreed to take up a twice-relisted challenge to Colorados ban on conversion therapy.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

* NJ Supreme Court rules Smith & Wesson has to disclose how they market their guns. Reuters ] * Will do good work for food: Michigan Worker's Comp Lawyers is offering a scholarship for law students come 2022. ABA Journal ] * People who thought the 2020 election was a hoax are running for positions at the Holocaust Memorial.

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Law 360

MARCH 26, 2025

A Michigan federal judge has asked the state's Supreme Court to clear up whether a contract obligating a Daimler Truck subsidiary to purchase "1 part to 100%" of its needs for transmission parts from a seller is an enforceable contract under a 2023 Michigan Supreme Court opinion, noting state justices haven't addressed a conflict among Michigan appellate (..)

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled in four cases, including People v. Parks and People v. Poole, that sentences of mandatory life without parole (LWOP) for murders committed.

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Law 360

MARCH 27, 2025

A Michigan packaging company's tax exemption appeal was properly dismissed by the state Tax Tribunal over a lack of jurisdiction, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled, overturning an appellate court decision.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 9, 2021

S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. The Court unanimously held that the district court’s dismissal of King’s claims under the FTCA triggered the “judgment bar” in 28 U.S.C. In Brownback v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The doctrine, created by a 1982 Supreme Court ruling meant to protect government employees from frivolous lawsuits, is frequently used by police and other law enforcement officials to head off lawsuits over excessive use of force or misconduct. Circuit Court of Appeals to overcome qualified immunity. Such delays are common.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Estelle v. But fifty years later, prisons seem to have deteriorated to Attica-era conditions, writes University of Michigan Professor Heather Ann Thompson for Time.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Share Amid the debate over free speech on university campuses, the justices on Monday set aside a decision by a federal appeals court in a case involving whether so-called “bias-response team policies” – procedures created by universities to solicit, track, and investigate reports of bias – chill students’ speech. The order in Speech First v.

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Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2024

The National Labor Relations Board general counsel's memorandum saying so-called captive audience meetings are unlawful is a "censorship scheme," the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan argued to the Sixth Circuit, seeking reversal of a lower court ruling that tossed the group's First Amendment claims.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Since a 1976 Supreme Court ruling , incarcerated individuals are the only group of people in the United States to have a constitutional right to health care. Under Estelle v Gamble , being deprived of “reasonably adequate medical care violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.”.

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Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

The firm Butzel Long cannot defend itself from a malpractice suit using a time-barring statute of repose that hadn't been enacted as law yet at the time when the firm signed a tolling agreement with its former client, a Michigan appellate court ruled.

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Law 360

JANUARY 31, 2023

Insurers for a glass manufacturer cannot pursue most of their claims against two contractors over a 2017 factory explosion, a Michigan federal court ruled, saying waiver of subrogation clauses in the underlying service contracts bar all causes of action except those arising from gross negligence.

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Law 360

MARCH 14, 2023

The Michigan Supreme Court says it will let a lower-court ruling stand and not review whether an insurer has standing to challenge a medical clinic's compliance with business incorporation laws as a defense against having to pay no-fault auto claims.

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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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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 10, 2024

Supreme Court ruled that public officials may be held liable for their social media activity in certain circumstances. In 2014, Freed updated his Facebook page to reflect his position as city manager of Port Huron, Michigan. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. In Lindke v. Freed , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. As a teenage congressional page, I was one of the faces in that crowd gathered around the court in October 1977 to watch history being made.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supreme Court had a busy week, hearing oral arguments in five cases. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Cruz v.

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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

JULY 2, 2023

There is an interesting debate unfolding around the country in the aftermath of the Supreme Court barring the use of race in college admissions. For decades, colleges and universities have sought to downplay the weight given to race in court while insisting that it was one of a number of factors used in maintaining diversity.

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JURIST

AUGUST 2, 2022

A Michigan Court of Appeals Monday ruled that the state Attorney General cannot enforce Michigan’s dormant abortion ban but local county prosecutors can. The case stems from a Michigan Court of Claims order from May 17. Thus, county prosecutors are local, not state, actors.

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JURIST

MAY 20, 2022

A Michigan judge Tuesday blocked the enforcement of a 1931 state law which would ban abortions in the event Roe v. The ruling was met with praise from the Michigan governor. is a Michigan law enacted in 1931 which made all abortions a felony unless it was necessary to save the mother’s life. After the ruling on Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. How, Alito asked, can a court determine whether the benefits of diversity have been achieved?

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. In the Michigan case, six men are charged with a conspiracy that involved kidnapping Whitmer but news outlets like BuzzFeed News have raised serious concerns over how much of the conspiracy was directed and facilitated by the FBI.

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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. In March, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Servotronics Inc. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit rejected Servotronics’ subpoena request.

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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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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Hirshfeld has the legal power to fulfill the expanded job as required by the Supreme Court’s decision. The leading Supreme Court decision, United States v. — Dennis Crouch.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2021

Notably, this sensitive subject has led to some sharp words even on the Supreme Court. ” In 2014, the Court ruled 6-2 in Schuette v. Bamn , that Michigan’s constitutional amendment banning affirmative action was constitutional. However, Lipson and LeFevre are not likely to raise the matter.

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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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JURIST

MAY 29, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Thursday that Michigan’s redistricting commission can bar people with political connections from serving on the commission. The district court dismissed the suit for failing to state a claim, and the plaintiffs appealed to the circuit court.

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