SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, at what stage of litigation the ministerial exception should come into play. Both a federal district court and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2021

Share Over the objection of the court’s three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from a Missouri death-row inmate who is contesting the state’s method of lethal injection and wants to propose the firing squad as a more humane method of execution.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit eventually affirmed the district court’s denial of the legislators’ attempt on the ground that the state attorney general was adequately defending the law. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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Legal Research is Easy

JULY 8, 2020

Here in South Carolina, there is a publication called South Carolina Lawyers Weekly at sclawyersweekly.com). Upon appeal of the default and foreclosure sale, the Court of Appeals affirmed both the default judgement and the sale of the home. Maybe it's time they get a board that isn't so litigation happy.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina Governor. His Supreme Court arguments and strategies were masterful works of art. Roy Cooper.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 8, 2023

Case Grounded on Fraud and Misrepresentation In mid-November, Kristie Brownell filed a proposed class action in a New York federal court against Starbucks Coffee Co. , the world’s largest coffeehouse chain. Will Starbucks wake up and smell the coffee? # # # SOURCE Brownell v Starbucks Coffee Company (Class Action Complaint).

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 19, 2023

This Doesn't Sound Very Soothing On December 7, 2022, throat-drop manufacturer Ricola USA was sued in federal court (Southern District of New York, White Plains Courthouse), because one of its products, labelled “Green Tea With Echinacea,” is alleged to have been deceptively marketed. RICOLA USA (federal court complaint)

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has newly relisted six petitions this week, raising three groups of issues. The district court in July 2019 agreed with the Warhol Foundation that the works were a fair use, but the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We’re not a law enforcement or compliance agency.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, alleged negligence and assault. However, Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal granted a motion to dismiss based on assumption of the risk. Again, the court agreed.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, alleged negligence and assault. However, Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal granted a motion to dismiss based on assumption of the risk. Again, the court agreed.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2021

Share On June 21, 2019, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Rehaif v. Gary , the court will hear argument on how to sort out the affected cases. Still another critical question is what materials a court may look to in deciding whether the defendant suffered such “prejudice.” Police later found a stolen Colt.45

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Patently O

AUGUST 8, 2024

Lemon Bay then filed suit in the Court of Federal Claims, alleging that the Corps’ denial effected a per se regulatory taking under Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council , 505 U.S. If you recall, in Lucas , the Supreme Court established a categorical rule for regulatory takings.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

Supreme Court declined to hear a petition on whether the climate liability cases should be heard in state or federal court. As a result, 11 cases will be remanded to state court to move towards motions to dismiss, discovery, and trial. Several factors led to the Supreme Court’s decision. On April 24, the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolinas governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will be considering 196 petitions and applications at its conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will be considering 196 petitions and applications at its conference.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2022

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. Otherwise, it would likely be struck down by the courts. The free speech concerns are even greater with regard to the South Carolina law. Following the Jackson Women’s Health Organization v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 5, 2022

Supreme Court, requires that prisons, jails, and detention centers provide medical and mental health care and protect incarcerated people from serious physical and psychological harm. People in solitary confinement, forced outdoors, coerced to work, and in transit to court or prison may be at increased risk, as well.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

Share It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisianas latest redistricting plan. And with Republicans holding only a slim majority in the House of Representatives, the courts decision could affect the balance of power there. The legislature drafted a new map, known as S.B.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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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. Louis, a Missouri court was faced with a claim from Carly Munoz who in 2019 sent to Six Flags’ Fright Fest with her cousin. Again, the court agreed. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Jones of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division required the Georgia legislature to redraw an earlier version of the proposed Georgia Congressional map that does not dilute the voting power of Black Georgia voters. We look forward to passing this fair redistricting plan.”

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Above The Law

JUNE 29, 2021

* Antitrust litigation against Facebook has been dismissed. Maybe the court thought that MySpace was a viable competitor. Wall Street Journal ] * Be sure to check out the Anti-Defamation League's annual Supreme Court review. [

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

However, the moment that most struck me was an exchange between Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Maine Chief Deputy Attorney General Christopher Taub where Taub appeared to acknowledge that legislatures have every right to ban critical race theory (CRT) from being taught. Maine is one of the states moving to ban CRT. Makin , Docket No.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a ruling by a federal district court holding that a congressional district on the South Carolina coast was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – that is, it sorted voters based primarily on their race. 1 deadline. 1 deadline. Mace defeated him in 2020 by less than 1%.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Callais ) (March 24) A challenge to a lower courts decision to strike down a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Here is a full list of the cases set for argument during the March argument session: Louisiana v. Oklahoma v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Why Humphreys Executor may be in peril at the Supreme Court (John Fritze, CNN) Theres No Need to Guess. JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts. Heres the Thursday morning read: Is there anyone in government Trump cant fire?

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 28, 2017

We also talked with South Carolina Senator Gerald Malloy and ABA Past-President William Hubbard about the Omnibus Crime Reduction and Sentencing Reform Act of 2010 and how that bipartisan effort is reducing both incarceration and crime while keeping violent offenders off the streets. Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) August 10, 2017.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – urged the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon to reject Texas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election. First, the states stressed, Texas’ lawsuit does not fall within the narrow category of cases in which the Supreme Court should exercise its original jurisdiction.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a dispute over the congressional map that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted in the wake of the 2020 census. They emphasize that courts must “disentangle race from politics.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. Edwards and Planned Parenthood went to federal court in South Carolina. The Supreme Court, it says, has made clear that this is a stringent test.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was skeptical of a lower court’s decision that a congressional district on the South Carolina coast was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. South Carolina adopted the map at the center of the dispute in 2021. If that data is good,” he queried, “should we reverse?”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

That leaves many in the public uninformed of issues that could ultimately undo parts of these bills in the courts. The resulting litigation could leave core election rules in doubt heading into the next round of elections. It seeks to negate the Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County v. In McPherson v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Under the Supreme Court decision Allen v. The rights groups say that the North Carolina legislature did not include these criteria when redistricting the state. In that case, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that it did not have the authority to overturn redistricting maps, as it would violate the separation of powers.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The tweet came in response to South Carolina GOP Sen. Nebraska (1925), the Court struck down a state law prohibiting instruction in German. 2d 772, 784, the court observed: “Nor can we ignore the fact that to bind the disclosure obligation to medical usage is to arrogate the decision on revelation to the physician alone.

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