JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled 4-3 that the state legislature’s assembly district maps are unconstitutional under the Wisconsin Constitution on Wednesday and ordered new remedial maps to be drawn for the 2024 elections. Karofsky authored the majority opinion of the court. Justice Jill J.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 14, 2022

En banc Fourth Circuit affirms federal district court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a North Carolina charter school rule that girls wear skirts: You can access today’s 10-to-6 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

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The Crime Report

JULY 27, 2022

Tens of thousands of people serving punishments for felony convictions in North Carolina but who aren’t behind bars can now register to vote and cast ballots following an appeals court ruling, reports the Associated Press. million registered voters in North Carolina. There are more than 7.3

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 19, 2021

“Filmmaker Overcomes Supreme Court Setback to Pursue North Carolina for Stealing Footage; It looked hopeless for Rick Allen’s Nautilus Productions when the high court ruled against him in 2020.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 19, 2022

“NC’s highest court rules on gerrymandered legislature’s power, but the case isn’t over”: Will Doran of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report. Robertson of The Associated Press report that “ Court opens door to voiding N. Carolina Voter ID amendment.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will take up a case from North Carolina next term that could upend federal elections by eliminating virtually all oversight of those elections by state courts. The trial court adopted a new map, drawn by three experts appointed by the court.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 14, 2023

“NC Supreme Court hears a new round of arguments in partisan gerrymandering case”: Avi Bajpai and Danielle Battaglia of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina have this report. ” The Supreme Court of North Carolina has posted the video of today’s oral argument on YouTube at this link.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon asked lawyers involved in a major election law case to weigh in on whether the court can still hear the case in the wake of a recent ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court, which reversed its earlier decision in the underlying redistricting dispute that sparked the case.

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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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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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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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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled that participants in an insurrection against the U.S. The decision came in the case of outgoing Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn who, before losing his House primary this month, faced a challenge from North Carolina voters arguing that his actions around the Jan.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case that UCLA law professor Richard Hasen has called the “ 800-pound gorilla ” of election law. The Supreme Court has never endorsed the independent state legislature theory in a majority opinion. The case, Moore v. House of Representatives.

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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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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 Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

Although standards for circumscribing speech remain high, the Supreme Court has recognized that First Amendment protections diminish in certain settings, including schools, prisons and the workplace. The courts, too, have circumscribed students’ speech online: in Morse v. North Carolina. The (In)Flexible First Amendment.

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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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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This story was republished from NC Newsline , a nonpartisan nonprofit news organization in North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday that a man should not lose his parental rights because of strict parole conditions imposed by another state. Read the original story here.

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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 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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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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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

JUNE 27, 2023

Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. Supreme Court last year, challenging the state supreme court’s decision.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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