Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Idaho's attorney general told a federal court on Tuesday that his office would be moving to defend the constitutionality of a largely untested law passed in Boise to let companies use federal courts in the state to punish so-called patent trolls.

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 17, 2023

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled for a transgender college student who challenged an Idaho law that bars transgender athletes from participating in women’s…

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

Nationwide, research over the last decade has documented how skyrocketing court fines and fees cause harm to those least able to pay them, and make future justice involvement more likely. Mostly white and rural states like Idaho regularly impose substantial monetary sanctions on people without the means to pay them.”.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

There is an interesting defamation case out of Idaho in which Rebecca Scofield , an associate professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Idaho, is suing TikTok personality Ashley Guillard for defamation. to murder the students. Gary Condit by the late Dominick Dunne. Bower, 232 Cal.App.3d Guillard.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

AP ] * Blame US Trade laws for fentanyl. AP ] * Blame US Trade laws for fentanyl. appeared first on Above the Law. Courthouse News Service ] * El Chapo lawyer launches music career. [ Reuters ] * Alaska's taxing AI and they've got a pretty good plan. and then immediately shut down that competitor.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

The University of Idaho has lost a major free speech and religious freedom case after a federal judge ruled in favor of three Christian law students at College of Law. Students, faculty, and staff from the law school gathered in front of the Moscow, Idaho, campus to express support for all students.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

Additionally, if municipalities pass authorizing legislation, county or municipal attorneys may also enforce the law. The bill also removes the public library exemption from the state’s criminal obscenity laws. This means that state governments are free to pass laws that limit obscene speech.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. high court says in unprecedented ruling (Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, The Washington Post) Labrador asks U.S. 21, the court expects to issue opinions in one or more argued cases. Striking It Down Could Be Worse.

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2024

Six major book publishers Friday sued the Florida Department of Education, challenging a 2023 state law used to restrict books in school libraries. The plaintiffs are suing on the basis that the state law is overbroad and violates the freedom of expression protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2024

Share The court expects to issue one or more opinions this morning in argued cases from the current term. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in Thornell v. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday established a more stringent test to determine whether the Clean Water Act applies to a wetland. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit applied the test outlined by Justice Anthony Kennedy in Rapanos v. On Thursday the Supreme Court reversed the 9th Circuit’s ruling.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You probably know the refrain: No attorney was involved here.

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Above The Law

APRIL 16, 2024

* Supreme Court authorizes Idaho's anti-trans care law with Justice Gorsuch writing that the decision might abuse the standard notion of the Court's shadow docket power, but all the justices who created those precedents are dead now and we have a supermajority so YOLO (you'd be shocked at how lightly paraphrased that is too).

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The family of University of Idaho stabbing victim Kaylee Goncalves is appealing a gag order imposed upon them and others in the case against suspected killer, Bryan Kohberger. However, courts have steadily increased the scope of these orders despite the curtailment of First Amendment rights. That is fairly common.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. Youngkin , in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Supreme Court started its October 2022 Term with an environmental case that is poised to make waves. 715 (2006), the Court held that the CWA does not regulate all wetlands. However, the divided Court could not agree on the proper standard. . Issues Before the Supreme Court. The issue in Sackett v. Facts of the Case.

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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. 3, the justices will hear oral argument in important cases involving issues such as voting rights, the Clean Water Act, and a challenge to a California animal-welfare law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2023

Idaho’s Supreme Court Thursday dismissed an appeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortion by Planned Parenthood. In the 3-2 decision, the court found that there was no constitutional right to an abortion and rejected the claim that abortion rights were “deeply rooted” in the state’s traditions and history.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Do state laws permitting individuals to carry concealed weapons undermine federal legislation banning weapons in the vicinity of schools? Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. Mississippi first came to the court in 2014. Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2023

Two teachers’ unions joined six professors in Idaho to bring a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the No Public Funds for Abortion Act (NPFAA), an Idaho law that prohibits the use of public funds to provide, promote, or counsel in favor of abortion. ” Filed in the U.S. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Owens is senior counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. Bruen represents the first significant Second Amendment case to be taken up by the Supreme Court since District of Columbia v. gun laws to plan attacks in the United States. Heller in 2008. soil since Sept.

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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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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Engine Defect Cost GM $103mm In a California federal court, a class action was filed against auto-manufacturing giant General Motors LLC (GM). It was alleged that the company breached certain warranties and consumer protection laws by knowingly selling cars that caused excessive consumption of oil and had engine defects.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday announced it had filed a lawsuit to block the application of a legal opinion in connection with Idaho’s abortion laws. The opinion, authored by Idaho Attorney General (AG) Raúl Labrador, concerns § 18-622(2) of the Idaho Criminal Code.

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JURIST

AUGUST 1, 2023

A US federal judge ruled on Monday that Idaho cannot enforce a ban on out-of-state abortion referrals, saying that such a prohibition would violate doctors’ First Amendment right to free speech. ” US District Judge for the District of Idaho B. .” ” US District Judge for the District of Idaho B.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Idaho Supreme Court upholds all abortion laws challenged in Planned Parenthood cases”: Nicole Blanchard and Ryan Suppe of The Idaho Statesman have this report. James Dawson of Boise State Public Radio News reports that “ Idaho Supreme Court upholds near-total abortion ban.”

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HowAppealing

APRIL 19, 2024

“Fetal Personhood Fight Underlies Supreme Court Abortion Case; Idaho abortion ban conflicts with federal law, US says; Reading of statute key question in appeal”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Appeals court lifts partial block on Idaho abortion ban; Enforcement of the law can begin as litigation winds its way through the courts”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on an order that Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

“Idaho Asks US Supreme Court to Permit Abortion Law Enforcement; US succeeded in halting ban’s enforcement in medical emergency; Fifth Circuit considering arguments in similar Texas case”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Abortion will become illegal in Idaho as Supreme Court declines to pause trigger law”: Nicole Blanchard of The Idaho Statesman has this report. And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “ Idaho top court allows near-total abortion ban to take effect.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2022

A strategy championed by Lathrop GPM, a Kansas City, Missouri law firm, encourages municipalities to settle civil rights claims in part because case law established by the firm shows cities can stick insurers with the bill, reports Bloomberg News.

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JURIST

AUGUST 2, 2022

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho for attempting to ban medically necessary abortions. The DOJ claims that Idaho’s abortion ban conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Wade in June.

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HowAppealing

MAY 7, 2024

“Appellate panel scrutinizes Idaho ‘abortion trafficking’ law as state seeks to revive it; The appellate panel asked what it means to ‘recruit’ someone to obtain an abortion”: Hillel Aron of Courthouse News Service has this report. ” The U.S. ” The U.S. .” ” The U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

Take a look at our 2022 Broadcasters’ Calendar to see if your state has an upcoming primary election (though confirm these dates locally as some dates have changed since the calendar was prepared – for instance, just this week, a court ordered the congressional primaries in New York state be postponed from June until August).

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