JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an electric chair for executions was unconstitutional. After the convictions, South Carolina passed Bill 200 , which changed the default method of execution in the state to electrocution.

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MyCase

AUGUST 16, 2022

The article also states, “It is critically important to understand the labyrinth of potentially applicable ethics rules that intertwine with certain court rules on retirement.”. Review Active Cases and Address Pending Court Dates. Prior to retirement, lawyers need to deal with open cases, pending court dates, and active client files.

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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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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2023

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic joined two physicians and Greenville Women’s Clinic to file a petition Thursday asking the Supreme Court of South Carolina to reconsider its decision to uphold a strict state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 29, 2025

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. The court is now holding a second relisted petition raising a similar issue, Elliott v. This week it disposed of four.

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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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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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

Advocates for sexual assault victims lamented that the flurry of activity on other criminal justice items — such as expanding when a court could hold someone alleged to have committed a dangerous crime — likely crowded out a measure they say was a priority for survivors.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week, adding three new cases to next term’s docket. Arizona , the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision holding that the court’s 1994 ruling in Simmons v. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Back in January, we noted that the Supreme Court had relisted five petitions challenging the constitutionality of the controversial practice of acquitted-conduct sentencing.

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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 don’t have any stick,” Newsome said.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

He previously argued for packing the Court with “race-conscious justices.” ” I have been a critic of court packing schemes raised after the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. t is ours, too.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, alleged negligence and assault. Again, the court agreed. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, alleged negligence and assault. Again, the court agreed. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood. __.

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JURIST

MAY 6, 2024

A group of 12 Republican US senators sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, threatening repercussions if the court issues arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials, according a Monday report from news organization Zeteo.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Just before the Supreme Court begins its new term on the first Monday in October , the court gathers to consider all the hundreds of cert petitions that have built up over the summer. At issue in Oklahoma v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 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 point Strauss’ victims should have known that the clock on their window to sue the university had started to run.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment. The court also relied on Rahimi and Bruen to support their opinion.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 4, 2025

By Livia Solaro, PhD candidate at Maastricht University, working on the transnational restitution of Nazi-looted art On 21 February 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling in Republic ofHungaryv.Simon , [1] a Holocaust restitution case with a lengthy procedural history. or MV) and its successor-in-interest Rail Cargo Hungaria Zrt. (RCH),

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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. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Again, the court agreed.

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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

JUNE 1, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week the court will be considering 150 certiorari petitions and applications at its conference Thursday. Elster is vying for another spot on the court’s growing docket of cases related to our 45th president.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 18, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. There was a lot of action among the relisted cases at last week’s Supreme Court conference. The court granted review in six-time relisted case Carnahan v. The court denied review in three-time relist St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed. When it comes to trademarks, the court of appeals explained, the government does not have an interest “in restricting speech critical of government officials or public figures.” South Carolina , she had a constitutional right to present evidence of her good behavior in prison.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

immigration court. After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to send their challenge to Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law back to U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

The Trump docket Even before the Supreme Court issued its July 1 decision holding that former presidents cannot face criminal liability for their official acts, Trump had already effectively scored a major victory from the justices. The 6-3 ruling that came from the court on July 1 made the prospect of any trial even more uncertain.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2021

right now , so what can the Supreme Court do to give us a break from the tedium of endless Zoom meetings ? The court won’t be meeting in conference for four weeks after this Friday. But with so many relists primed to grant, the court may make substantial inroads on filling its fall argument calendar on the next order list.

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