The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. And it is the latest in a string of cases pushing the federal courts out of second-guessing state election laws.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company , which focus on statute of limitations and personal jurisdiction issues. In Reed , petitioner Rodney Reed asked the court to decide when “the statute of limitations begins to run for an action under 42 U.S.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. Third, the court found that BLM used internally inconsistent emission rates. In 2018, the court vacated EPA’s earlier denial of the request.

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HowAppealing

JULY 21, 2021

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court reverses decision allowing childhood sex abuse victims to sue for decades old abuse”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report. ” Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press reports that “ Justices deal blow to outdated claims of child sexual abuse.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2025

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Since the Supreme Court overruled a federal constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization , the fight over reproductive rights has shifted to state courts.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. As October Term 2021 winds to a close, the Supreme Court is holding its penultimate scheduled conference this week. The petitioners also ask the court to overrule Employment Division v. Sturgis Public Schools.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. He ruled for both the claim of the Plaintiff and the counterclaim of the Defendant and denied any damages to either party. _ See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Again, the court agreed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” FEATURED CASE. ExxonMobil Corp.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 9, 2025

Legislatures in both states recently passed legislation requiring warning labels on social media, despite an utter lack of evidence that this will do good and one federal court ruling declaring a similar law for porn websites to be unconstitutional. Pennsylvania's state law on prostitution remains unchanged.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 9, 2025

Trump , the first Alien Enemies Act challenge to make it to a circuit court in (somewhat) regular order rather than on an emergency motion. In the Fifth Circuit, the government is arguing that the courts "must defer" to the president's proclamation, even if they disagree that an invasion or predatory incursion is underway. No matter.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 5, 2025

Specifically, let's talk about why overruling President Donald Trump's tariffs should be an easy decision for the Supreme Court when the appropriate case arrives before the justices, which will probably happen sooner rather than later. Yet "the statute is silent on tariffs, and for good reason. But the Supreme Court ruled otherwise.

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