JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Court of Appeals for Fourth Circuit ruled Monday in favor of North Carolina inmate Willie James Dean, Jr. ” The district court stated that such responses by the officers were “necessary to protect officer safety” and that they were “proportionate to the threat posed by Dean.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Emergency Medical Services employees in Cleveland County, North Carolina, work long shifts, and as a result are eligible for a mix of “straight-time” and overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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American Legal Net

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

New Court Rule Sets Available : California Works of Improvement (Including Mechanics Liens) ( CAWIML ) North Carolina Superior Court, 4A District, Duplin, Jones, and Sampson Counties ( NC04AS ). Courts Removed. The post September 1, 2021 Court Rules Update appeared first on American Legal Net.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A US federal court on Wednesday partially blocked enforcement of an Alabama law criminalizing absentee ballot assistance. The court sided with a coalition of plaintiffs who argued the law would violate the rights of disabled, blind, and low-literacy voters. The judge enjoined several sections of Senate Bill 1 (SB1).

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ABA Journal

APRIL 28, 2023

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Friday that challenges to partisan gerrymandering by the legislature—the process of drawing voting district lines based on political…

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a car passenger had a First Amendment right to livestream a traffic stop in in Winterville, North Carolina.…

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a North Carolina town’s policy that banning video live-streaming police during traffic stops was in violation of the First Amendment, Lauren Sforza reports for The Hill. The 4th U.S.

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Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

Business groups told the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday that they supported Bank of America in its fight against a North Carolina federal court ruling that found the bank wasn't entitled to net the interest on the tax liabilities of Merrill Lynch after the two companies merged.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Many observers are waiting for the United States Supreme Court to decide whether to delve again into college admissions with a pending case out of Harvard University in which Asian and white students claim discrimination. ” The case will now go to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judge Loretta C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

Share Two years after the court ruled that a disparity in bankrupt debtors’ fees between judicial districts was impermissible, the justices on Friday ruled 6-3 that charging equal fees going forward is an adequate remedy for that disparity. By statute, the U.S. Here, she noted, Congress’s intentions were “unmistakable.”

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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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2024

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University , which was unfortunately not reviewed by the Supreme Court. Many objected to the claims of ‘lack of collegiality’ and bad ‘temperament’ raised against figures like Justice Sotomayor when she was nominated for the Court. of Trustees. ”

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A. But that is not what the district court did. I did not, but this case prompted me to write one!

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. It further held that while there are narrow exceptions to this rule, state public policy is not one of them. On February 21, 2024, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled in Siegel v. The United States has 94 districts for bankruptcy proceedings in federal court. The bankruptcy court rejected that request, but the U.S.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled Thursday that people who are or have been in a dating relationship with a same-sex partner are equally protected against domestic violence as persons in opposite-sex relationships placed in a similar situation. While relying on the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

University of North Carolina. 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. In Bakke, the court ruled against affirmative action in a fractured decision.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supreme Court had a busy week, hearing oral arguments in five cases. University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Harvard College and SFFA v. 306 (2003).

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a North Carolina school’s dress code requiring females to wear skirts violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. ” Male students were required to wear shorts or pants.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week. After granting four petitions for review on Friday afternoon, the court – as expected – did not add any new cases to its docket for the 2022-23 term. A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As some Supreme Court podcasters have noted, Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in late January pushed the so-called Maskgate controversy out of the spotlight. Perhaps the court has concluded that certain podcasters are in need of more fodder for their metaphors about the status of the court.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule.

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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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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. In 2014, a University of North Carolina professor found that as many as ten percent of the school’s football and basketball players could not read above a third-grade level.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. But during nearly five hours of oral arguments on Monday, the court’s conservative majority signaled that it could be ready now, 19 years after Grutter , to end the use of race in college admissions. Brown , diversity goals, and an “endpoint in sight”.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Courts failed to address 1,774 of those claims. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. They identified 7,207 separate claims of prosecutorial misconduct over that 17-year period.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 27, 2022

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a former assistant federal public defender in North Carolina can sue court officials for constitutional violations stemming from…

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Table of contents What Are Lawyer Flat Fees? The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? Are Fees Refundable? What Are Lawyer Flat Fees?

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Both of the lawsuits were filed in federal court in 2014 by a group called Students for Fair Admissions, which describes itself as “dedicated to defending the right to racial equality in college admissions.” Two cases, two paths to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: The Supreme Court’s term was full of whimpers. Then it ended with a bang.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The North Carolina Supreme Court Friday granted a petition for rehearing for two settled cases. This decision comes after the election of new justices in 2022, which gave the court a 5-2 Republican majority. I am committed to fighting for the rule of law and will of the voters. Justices Michael R.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

USA Today last week published “ Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too ,” by Aaron Mendelson a reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. It says, “Across the country, state high courts wield enormous power over abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and elections, among other issues.

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Customs & International Trade Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Co. to the UFLPA Entity List , June 2023 A New Era in Cosmetics Regulation: The Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act , May 2023 Can A False Claims Act Qui Tam Case, Alleging Customs Fraud, Be Filed And Pursued Anonymously?,

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