JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

Idaho Governor Brad Little Wednesday signed a new abortion bill into law, despite expressing grave concerns about the wisdom and constitutionality of the measure and warning that it could re-traumatize victims of sexual assault. Rapists cannot file a lawsuit under the law, but a rapist’s relatives potentially could. .

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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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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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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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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

JUNE 27, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block access to emergency abortion services in Idaho. US , the Supreme Court was asked to determine whether a federal law —the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)—would preempt Idaho’s near-total abortion ban. In Moyle v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There has been much talk in the last week about a letter from the University of Idaho General Counsel’s Office warning professors about discussing abortion. The warning is outgrowth of the No Public Funds for Abortion Act (Idaho Code Section 18-8701 through Section 18-8711). The letter triggered alarm on the Idaho faculty.

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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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MARCH 11, 2024

legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. The other is the continuing lack of public access to the law. Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S.

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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. The Sacketts’ legal battle began shortly after they began backfilling their property to prepare the lot, which is about 300 feet from Priest Lake, for construction back in 2007.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order Tuesday granting the rehearing of the abortion case United States of America v. State of Idaho. Tuesday’s order discarded the court’s September order , which allowed the law to go into effect.

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Above The Law

MARCH 29, 2023

* Idaho planning to criminalize interstate travel to procure legal services in another state. If only the Constitution said something about states fully and faithfully crediting the laws of other states. Law360 ] * Tougher rules announced for Supreme Court justices and other federal judges getting free junkets.

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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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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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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Idaho legislators proposed a bill Friday calling on Congress to close a legal loophole in a region encompassing an uninhabited 50-square mile tract of land within Yellowstone National Park, which supposedly permits the commission of serious criminal acts such as murder and kidnapping without consequences.

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

As a refresher, in the forty-five days before a primary election, broadcasters must extend to legally qualified candidates their lowest unit rate and continue to follow all other applicable political broadcasting rules. The law gives the Texas Attorney General or an individual user the right to bring a legal action against a platform.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

But their continued presence undermines the rule of law, warns a forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal article. Exacerbating the problem, Johnson notes, is the fact that no well-established doctrine enables a court to deem dead crimes void. Their ambiguous status “undermines” the rule of law in the criminal justice system.

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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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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the legality of state efforts to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors — a contentious issue in a nation deeply divided over transgender rights and the role of medical intervention in youth gender identity. In November, the plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The state of Idaho and the Alliance Defending Freedom, an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group, have appealed to the Supreme Court to allow an Idaho law that would penalize abortion providers, Carter Sherman reports for The Guardian.

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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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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

The nominal juror compensation provided under current law places a significant financial burden that prevents too many low-income people from serving on a jury.”. Some counties in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee pay $10; in Georgia, some pay $5, says The Indy. Rhode Island Sen.

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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. See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over a challenge to the constitutionality of ordinances in a southwest Oregon town that fines people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city limits. After the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion, setting up the Biden administration’s first legal battle over abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Sabin Center’s Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative provides pro bono legal counsel to community members who support renewable energy projects.) . In contrast to the natural gas permitting scheme, no federal law provides a specific approval process for siting oil pipelines. Three Recent Pipeline Setbacks.

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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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HowAppealing

AUGUST 2, 2022

sues Idaho over near-total abortion ban coming Aug. 25; The lawsuit filed Tuesday was the Biden administration’s first legal action since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. “Justice Dept. Wade in June”: Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post have this report.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2024

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Tuesday signed into law a gender-affirming healthcare ban for transgender minors. ” Critics of HB 4624, however, emphasize the harm that the law will impose on transgender youth. .” South Carolina is now the 25th state to restrict or ban gender-affirming treatment for minors.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a complaint from the state Texas of alleging that the state of California “unconstitutionally discriminated against Texans,” following a ban on state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Texas (and other states). Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas were among other states.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2023

"The poop emoji: a legal history" [ Verge ] * Supreme Court refuses call to allow West Virginia to ban transgender athletes. We've entered the era where the Biden administration is trying to push to the right of this Supreme Court. National Law Journal ] * Real Housewife owes real attorneys' fees. A lot of them.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Sheetz came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to apply the court’s Nolland/Dolan test and find the county’s fee a violation of the takings clause. Under 8 U.S.C.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

May it please the court,” I begin. I again hear the judge asking me to begin, and this time I hear my tentative voice, “May it please the court …” I realize I must do better next time, must keep my face focused on the judge and jury, must move my hands more smoothly, must stand more confidently. Honorable members of the jury.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would provide confidentiality to suppliers and manufacturers of lethal injection drugs. House Bill 658 is intended to provide “legal protection from discovery or disclosure for certain persons and entities to carry out the death penalty.”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 11, 2022

A law passed by Texas legislators has been temporarily blocked by an Austin court after a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Lambda Legal on behalf of the parents of a transgender teenager who was being investigated for abuse by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

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