SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Share When the Supreme Court returns to the bench on Oct. Environmental Protection Agency , the justices will once again weigh in on an Idaho couple’s efforts to build on land that they own – specifically, what test courts should use to determine whether the Clean Water Act applies to the land, which the EPA has deemed a wetland.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Bruen represents the first significant Second Amendment case to be taken up by the Supreme Court since District of Columbia v. In Heller , the court held, for the first time, that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Heller in 2008.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In recent years, that “mop-up” conference has overwhelmingly happened the day the court hands down the last opinions of the term. 922(g) , which the court was holding for United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. ;

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Share The Supreme Court returned to the bench on Monday for the start of its new term. The justices did not waste any time in getting down to business, hearing argument in a long-running dispute over an Idaho couple’s efforts to build a home on land that they own – but which the Environmental Protection Agency has deemed a “wetland.”

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Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission told an Idaho federal court a "preemptive" suit from a mobile app data analytics broker wrongly tries to stop the government from taking enforcement action against the company, urging the court to dismiss the suit against the agency.

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

For both primary and secondary legal materials, many remain under the commercial lock and key of major publishers, or under dubious claims of copyright by government entities, or so disparately and poorly organized as to be effectively inaccessible. Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, New Mexico and Tennessee all do as well, according to Malamud.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 9, 2023

On Thursday, a District Court judge in Idaho issued a pair of mixed rulings relating to the FTC’s case against prominent location data broker Kochava. The news wasn’t all bad for the government, but FTC’s now has some decisions to make. But the judge also dealt a blow to the government, dismissing its suit against Kochava.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Over 40 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. Sosa went to federal court, arguing that the officers violated his constitutional rights. A federal district court in Florida dismissed his lawsuit.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As we wrote here in early January, GMR and RMLC entered into a conditional settlement to end their long-running court battle over music royalty rates, but enough radio stations had to agree to the licensing terms set by GMR before the settlement would become effective.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

However, as explained below, siting decisions for pipelines and transmission lines are governed by different laws, and while both are subject to environmental review, their environmental impacts are not comparable. In May, the Court modified its earlier vacatur of NWP 12 to cover only future oil and gas pipeline construction.

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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2025

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday for South Carolina to remove Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid coverage since it performs abortions. The government raised these interpretation arguments to show that abortion is not a constitutional right in South Carolina.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Share The Supreme Court declined on Monday morning to hear the case of a Texas woman seeking compensation for damage to her home inflicted by a SWAT team pursuing a fugitive. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, issued a statement regarding the court’s decision not to take up the case.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

An Idaho judge has issued a $250,000 arrest warrant for anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, the man who organized a takeover of an Oregon wildlife reserve that left one of his supporters dead, Andrew Buncombe reports for The Guardian. Bundy fell foul of the court after not attending hearings in relation to a $52.5m

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The group, named “The Terrorgram Collective,” celebrated terrorist attacks around the world and solicited further attacks, prosecutors told a federal court in Sacramento, California. The accused Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning issued orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, Jan. One involves the power of federal district courts; the other tests the scope of the Clean Water Act. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. Three states with Republican attorneys general – Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas – joined the dispute in the lower court earlier this year.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2024

The rights group noted that millions of Americans have been deprived of the human right to an abortion in the two years since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. The court found in Dobbs that no constitutional right to abortion existed, overturning nearly 50 years of precedent on abortion rights in the US.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share With two dozen cases from its 2021-22 term still undecided, the Supreme Court on Tuesday released the first argument calendar for its 2022-23 term. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit used the correct test to determine whether wetlands are “waters of the United States” for purposes of the Clean Water Act. Goertz (Oct.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

The Texas Supreme Court upheld a statutory ban on gender-affirming care for minors on Friday. The Texas Supreme Court found that SB 14 does not infringe on the parental right to make medical care decisions for their children because that right competes with the interest of protecting children from harm.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

The women of New York will never be subjected to government mandated pregnancies. The Supreme Court has still not issued an official opinion in Dobbs v. However, 26 states already have laws to ban abortion should the Supreme Court overturn Roe. ” Idaho has a similar law pending in court.

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Above The Law

APRIL 25, 2022

You'd think the 'masks take away my liberty!' people would be against state-mandated childbirth. The post What SB8’s Legalese Really Means appeared first on Above the Law.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A Texas federal judge told the government to make its argument about why Missouri, Kansas and Idaho shouldn't intervene in a lawsuit over various rulings about the abortion drug mifepristone, saying that there's no need to wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if it will review the case.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Exacerbating the problem, Johnson notes, is the fact that no well-established doctrine enables a court to deem dead crimes void. Such a formulation may enable American courts to void dead crimes. Johnson, an appellate lawyer with the Department of Justice. Johnson proposes three ways to implement the desuetude principle into law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2024

In June, the Louisiana district court blocked the Department of Education from enforcing any part of the 2024 rule in the four states bringing the challenge. The district court in Kentucky did the same for the six states involved in that challenge. In a pair of filings , U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Bloomberg News has reported that the Supreme Court briefly accidentally posted an opinion on its website that would allow emergency abortions to go forward in Idaho. The court’s Public Information Office has issued a statement that the opinion in a pair of cases, Moyle v. United States and Idaho v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Tuesday blocked a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees of federal government contractors. US President Joe Biden had signed Executive Order 14042 in September, requiring all contractors that work with the US government to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court cleared out some old relists in the last few order lists. The court denied review in Smith v. Courts of Appeals for the 5th, 6th, and 11th Circuits rejected the group’s arguments.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The confirmation raises the prospect that Prelogar will argue at the Supreme Court on Monday on behalf of the Biden administration in United States v. Prelogar, a native of Boise, Idaho, attended Harvard Law School and began her career clerking for then-Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. In National Collegiate Athletic Association v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

” The 13 states expressly named are thirteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. companies or court will not do so. Supreme Court has long debated the question with sharply different views.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily reinstated Idaho’s abortion ban, which includes emergency abortions, and agreed to hear arguments on the matter. Section 18-622 of the Idaho Statutes criminalizes performing or attempting to perform an abortion, unless not doing so would result in the mother’s death.

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The Crime Report

MAY 6, 2022

Every state has a law that says you can’t impersonate the military, you can’t impersonate law enforcement, you can’t be a private group that assumes the duties of either one; but the government really hasn’t started paying more attention to domestic extremism until right now,” he continued.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Bankruptcy Court Said California City and Counties Could Not Sue Coal Company for Climate Change Impacts. A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). FEATURED CASE.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Share A divided Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether a Washington state law that prohibits licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on children violates the First Amendment. The conversion therapy question came to the Supreme Court in the case of Brian Tingley , a Washington marriage and family counselor.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

Share The court’s press room is still buzzing this morning over Bloomberg’s scoop yesterday on the brief but mistaken posting of the court’s disposition in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. The opinion of the court is unanimous.” United States , about emergency abortion care. Spizzirri , a low-profile arbitration case.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. The viability framework. Against stare decisis.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Nia Prater, New York Magazine) The Federal Government as a Party (Steve Vladeck, One First) The post The morning read for Monday, Jan. 27 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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