The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. The Furman Framework. The ruling was narrow in scope.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will thus begin the process of considering what cases to review next fall during October Term 2022. The district court and U.S. What’s the difference ?

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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. They identified 7,207 separate claims of prosecutorial misconduct over that 17-year period. In the remaining 5,432, misconduct was found in just 204 cases?or or less than 4 percent.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Justice Samuel Alito has spoken of the importance of safeguarding the free exercise of religion , and recently , free exercise questions have been a particular focus of the Supreme Court.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the California law requiring escrow interest was not preempted by the National Bank Act.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. In a real first amendment case, a court would have little patience with such a standard as a limitation on free speech.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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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 3, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, challenges to President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Turkish steel, the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. University of North Carolina.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that two Republican state legislators may step in to defend the state’s voter identification law, even though the state’s Democratic attorney general is already doing so.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2022

In an earlier column , I wrote about what I saw as an insurmountable conflict of interest for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court. One of the most important cases on the Court’s calendar is a racial discrimination case involving Harvard admissions policies.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 14, 2021

The petitioners also filed suit to compel the Agency to respond to the petition in the federal district court for the Northern District of California last year. 387 (notes to statute, § 3, ¶ 7). In addition, any menthol rule would require significant public comment and could likely face litigation in federal court.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 14, 2021

The petitioners also filed suit to compel the Agency to respond to the petition in the federal district court for the Northern District of California last year. 387 (notes to statute, § 3, ¶ 7). In addition, any menthol rule would require significant public comment and could likely face litigation in federal court.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Yegiazaryan v. In Abitron Austria GmbH v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. Some things are happily left out of the courts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Much attention has been devoted recently to the increased calls for emergency relief from the Supreme Court in fast-paced ligation on the shadow docket. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Share For the third time this term, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether someone can stage an intervention – the legal kind, that is. The North Carolina legislature passed the voter-ID law at the center of the case in December 2018. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit struck down an earlier version of the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

Share With all eyes focused on the nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, selected by President Joe Biden to succeed the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court was back to work on Monday morning. The legislators then came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in. In Berger v. But the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot.

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