SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A California state court concluded that they were liable to the buyer for that nondisclosure, though the bankruptcy court concluded that Kate herself did not participate in the fraud. Barrett’s last major point discusses an 1885 Supreme Court decision ( Strang v.

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MAY 20, 2021

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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. Judges should certify that the “Brady rule,” mandated under a 1963 Supreme Court ruling, is followed at each criminal trial. or less than 4 percent. Certify Compliance.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Share The court will hear its second bankruptcy case of the week next Tuesday, with Bartenwerfer v. Dissatisfied with the purchase, Buckley eventually obtained a judgment in a California state court based on the failure of the Bartenwerfers to disclose information about the house on the standard-form Transfer Disclosure Statement.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

York had sought dismissal of the negligent homicide and malfeasance charges against him after it was revealed that prosecutors improperly allowed a use-of-force expert to review statements York made during an internal affairs inquiry, which are specifically shielded from use in criminal cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. For the second time in just over three years, the Supreme Court may determine the future of the federal watchdog agency that seeks to protect consumers in the financial sector. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v.

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Law Prose

MAY 20, 2021

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Law Prose

MAY 20, 2021

been cited in more than 1,000 appellate opinions in state and federal courts. splatter , comprised or composed , continual or continuous , malfeasance or misfeasance , penal or punitive , GDLU. Since it first. appeared in 1987, Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage ( GDLU ) has. current third edition. has long been the source.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2022

The federal trial court seated the jury last week. Ironically, in state court the prosecutors made the case for the defense of the three officers. While lower courts have complained that “ Screws is not a model of clarity ,” it remains a serious hurdle for prosecutors to require something beyond mere negligence.

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LexForti

JUNE 2, 2022

The Apex Court itself identified these outrageous costs as one of the major reasons responsible for the hindrance to the growth of arbitration [12]. Court of Wards [15] where it was clarified that as long as the funding for the process was for a portion of the proceeds, it was not illegal. In 1939, a stance was taken in Ram Surap v.

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JURIST

MAY 21, 2021

” The searches came following an order from federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal) Justice Alexandre de Moraes determining that federal police had evidence that Salles and other governmental environment officials were “involved in an extremely serious scheme to facilitate the contraband of rainforest products.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether the First Amendment restricted the board’s authority to do so. The censure resolution prompted Wilson to add a federal civil rights claim to his first state-court lawsuit, arguing that the censure violated his right to free speech.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In a stunning development today in Massachusetts, a Middlesex County Superior Court judge unsealed records revealing the state concealed information for years that showed other chemists and supervisors may have engaged in wrongdoing at a beleaguered crime lab where rampant misconduct led to tens of thousands of wrongful drug convictions.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. But in one of those cases, the court’s denial of review prompted two justices to object. The Supreme Court will meet this Friday to consider whether to grant review in a group of around 95 petitions and motions.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Trump administration prepared an application on Sunday asking the US Supreme Court to remove a lower court order blocking the firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel. ” The administration based its argument on several recent Supreme Court decisions. Seila Law LLC v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

SB 40 establishes more stringent expectations for lawyers to report professional malfeasance , particularly when such activities could adversely affect clients and cast aspersions on an attorney’s integrity, competence or ethical standing.

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JURIST

MARCH 2, 2025

The statute mandates, “The Special Counsel may be removed by the President only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” ” The court considered the fact that Dellinger’s termination email merely announced that he had been terminated and failed to provide justification according to 1211.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Wilcox claims the firing violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which only permits the removal of board members for “neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” As the lawsuit notes, the Supreme Court has adjudicated the limits of the presidential removal power many times over the last century.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2023

A number critics have cited a New Mexico case where such a disqualification of a local politician named Couy Griffen was approved by a court and then upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court. Yet, it is untrue that “the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the decision to disqualify” and established counter precedent on the issue.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Department of Justice recently indicated they would ask the Supreme Court to overturn what 1935 precedent? Hint: The case established the ability of Congress to limit a president’s authority to remove a commissioner of an independent agency to instances of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday had mostly bad news for shareholders of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their lawsuit seeking to unwind a 2012 agreement that required the companies to transfer profits to the federal government. Three shareholders went to court to challenge the 2012 amendment.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Acting Solicitor General of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Sarah Harris sent a letter to President Pro Tempore of the US Senate Charles Grassley on Thursday sharing the DOJ’s determination that removal restrictions for administrative law judges (ALJs) are unconstitutional and that the DOJ no longer intends to defend them in court.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2025

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday held that President Donald Trumps unprecedented removal of the Chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), Susan Tsui Grundmann, was unlawful. Congress intended that FLRA be impartial by independence from any direct responsibility to the incumbent administration.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. Some things are happily left out of the courts. One such case now in court was brought by Amanda DuVall, 28. Thanksgivings tend to reflect the state of our society for better or worse.

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2025

Filed in the federal district court for the District of Columbia, the complaint alleges violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA), the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and the US Constitution. Trump fired Bedoya and Slaughter on Tuesday making the two commissioners the latest officials dismissed from an administrative agency.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In other words, the president cannot remove them from their office except for specific reasons such as neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. This echoed the US Supreme Court 1935 ruling, in the case of Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday asked the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to end a special master review of thousands of documents that the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

District Judge Amy Berman Jackson accomplishes, Dellinger told the justices, is to maintain the status quo allowing him to remain in office while the district court engages in extremely expedited proceedings to address the merits of the parties underlying dispute. The Trump administration then came to the Supreme Court on Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Share The Trump administration on Wednesday reiterated its request for the Supreme Court to lift an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris then came to the court , repeating her request for the justices to intervene. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. When the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Friday left in place for now an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, dissented from the courts decision not to act on the Trump administrations request. Dellinger went to federal court to challenge his firing. declined to intervene.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2025

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump from firing the Democratic chair of the US Merit System Protection Board (MSPB). 1202, unless she is earlier removed for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office under that statute. … Plaintiff Cathy A.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2025

The complaint alleged that her removal violated the National Labor Relations Act , which limits causation for removal of board members to neglect of duty or malfeasance. Judge Howell was appointed to the district court in 2010 by former President Barack Obama and has previously decided a case against the interests of the Trump administration.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Share The Trump administration on Sunday asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Sundays filing was the first time that the Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in one of the lawsuits filed to challenge actions taken by Trump and his administration since his inauguration on Jan.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2025

Dellingers claim is based in large part on the Civil Service Reform Act, which provides that the Special Counsel may be removed by the President only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. However, it is far from conclusive and brushes over some striking conflicts with prior rulings of the Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

Bush, one Trump judicial appointee to the district courts have in common? Before jumping into the cases though here is a breakdown of current federal district court judges by party of appointing president (data from fjc.gov ). What do five Biden, two Obama, one George W. The split is approximately 54% Democratic to 46% Republican.

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