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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 25, 2025
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists. The court granted review in United States Postal Service v. The district court agreed and dismissed Whole Foods with prejudice.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Now, there is a new case involving a Democratic representative and surgeon from Maryland who participated in legislative meetings while operating. The case is reminiscent of a prior case that we discussed involving Dr. Scott Green who appeared remotely in a Sacramento Superior Court for a trial of a traffic violation during an operation.
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Law Prose
MAY 15, 2024
When dealing with a claim that such a document creates a right in prisoners to sue a government official because he negligently created an unsafe condition in the prison, the Court bears in mind Chief Justice Marshall’s admonition that “we must never forget, that it is a constitution we are expounding,” McCulloch v. Maryland , 4 Wheat.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 14, 2024
In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The court acknowledges that “the most troublesome statement in the column.
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