SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously struck down a Washington state law that was aimed at helping federal contract employees get workers’ compensation for diseases arising from cleaning up nuclear waste. The court held that Congress had not done so. The case, United States v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 5, 2025

(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) One of the quickest lessons you pick up in law school is that the path to knowing the law doesn’t end at finding a line in the Constitution or a statute and reading it aloud to anyone who would hear it. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Alana C.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

A Washington DC judge sentenced on Friday multiple members of a far-right nationalist group known as the Proud Boys for their role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. A federal jury in Washington DC previously convicted Nordean and Pezzola on conspiracy charges on May 4.

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2022

Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tuesday pled guilty in federal court to charges of trafficking protected animal products from the DRC into the US. Code §§3371-3378 ) is the US’s oldest statute against wildlife trafficking. The Lacey Act ( 16 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Washington. A funny thing happened on the way to oral argument: The state of Washington modified the 2018 workers’ compensation law at the center of the case, raising the prospect that there is no longer a live dispute for the justices to resolve. 5890 under Washington law. The state’s old law, H.B. The state’s old law, H.B.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Supreme Court issued its decision yesterday in Federal Republic of Germany v. Dissatisfied with the decision, the heirs sued in Washington under the expropriation exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which provides that a foreign state is not immune from jurisdiction of the U.S. Repeating a theme against asserting U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

Washington Post ] * Judge loses defamation suit over being linked to QAnon. ABC News ] * North Carolina sued over its electronic court filing system. They won the elderly woman tax foreclosure case everyone was up in arms about and then they got the Supreme Court to gut wetlands protections. It's fricking May. [

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2022

On 27 February, President Zelensky announced that Ukraine had submitted its application against Russia to the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”). On 28 February, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) Karim A.A. Ukraine has not yet become a State Party to the Rome Statute of the ICC.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

And Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Kathy Griffin Cleared in Case Brought by Covington Catholic Students; Kentucky’s long-arm statute does not allow students to bring harassment claims against comedian Kathy Griffin and a New York doctor for tweets sent in the aftermath of a viral Washington Monument standoff.”

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2021

Tornillo , where a similar Florida statute granting political candidates a right to equal space in news-print publications violated the publisher’s guarantees of a free press and was struck down by the Supreme Court. Advocates also point out a 1974 case called Miami Herald Publishing CO.

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2023

He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. But who really believes in holding people to the explicit text of a statute, huh? Washington Post ] * Ron Klain heads back to O’Melveny. That seems bad.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Share So many books cover the work of the Supreme Court that the Journal of Supreme Court History can review several of them in each issue. The overwhelming majority of those books, though, analyze the work of the court interpreting the Constitution. But this book has much more to offer the student of the modern court.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. ’ Most cases are won or lost based on the writing.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 11, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the Fourth or 14th Amendment governs the use of force against students. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

After Mallory was diagnosed with colon cancer, he went to court in Pennsylvania and argued that he had been exposed to asbestos and other toxic chemicals while working for Norfolk Southern. Norfolk Southern urged the state court to throw out Mallory’s lawsuit. The lower courts agreed, but on Tuesday the Supreme Court reversed.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 13, 2021

A federal court has handed down a bit of a mixed ruling in a lawsuit accusing Canada Goose of misleading consumers about the nature of the trapping methods used to source the fur for its buzzy jackets by claiming that it is dedicated to “the ethical, responsible, and sustainable sourcing and use of real fur.” Motion to Dismiss.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Koblitz — As the User Fee Acts move through Congress, it has been clear that FDA is using them as a vehicle to legislatively overturn some big court losses over the last few years. As faithful readers of our blog know, FDA’s broad interpretations of its governing statute have not always fared that well in the courts.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 3, 2025

was an odd one: The justices asked no questions at all about the question on which theyd granted review, because the parties agree that the lower courts answer to that question was incorrect. Devas then filed suit in federal court in the United States seeking to confirm the arbitration award. Antrix Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Natural Resources Defense Council , determines when a federal court must defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. First, under step one, if the court determines Congress’ intent is clear and unambiguous in the statute, the court will interpret the statute according to its terms, without deferring to the agency.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As an example, the Federal Wire Fraud statute makes it a crime to use the “wires” to move forward with “any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.” But the federal fraud statutes at issue do not criminalize all such conduct.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has issued a number of decisions in recent years limiting the reach of the federal wire-fraud statute, which outlaws the use of “the wires” – including internet and phone lines – to commit fraud.

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Law 360

MAY 1, 2024

A Washington state appeals court sided with Monsanto on Wednesday, undoing a $185 million jury verdict for three teachers who claimed they were sicked by PCBs at a Washington school site and ruling the case could be limited by the Evergreen state's 12-year statute of repose for product liability claims.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether someone can sue under RICO to recover lost earnings. The district court ruled for the company on Horn’s RICO claim.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. Similarly, in People v.

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Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

Monsanto has again urged an appellate court to reverse a nearly $200 million jury verdict for PCB poisoning, arguing the Washington Supreme Court's recent decision throwing out the state's eight-year limit on malpractice claims did not invalidate the state's products liability statute of repose.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. The APA gives anyone who is injured by an agency’s action the right to go to court to challenge the action, but plaintiffs must file their challenges “within six years after the right of action first accrues.”

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , said that the state legislature is to blame for stalling efforts to bring about regulatory reforms to address the state’s gap in access to justice. Every year, the bar dues bill has to be approved by the California legislature, not the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A teacher in Washington was told to remove a “Blue Lives Matter” flag that she put up to support her brother who was a former police officer. New Hampshire , the Supreme Court followed a “two-tied approach” that allowed for restrictions in certain defined areas like fighting words and obscenity. In Chaplinsky v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Share Several police officers outside the Supreme Court building have donned masks as haze from Canadian wildfires has become more noticeable in Washington this morning. Elliott for historical correctness, but the issue is a bit complex and the court likely had several reasons for putting the Kansas case first.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 25, 2021

After the Sun published a column calling Depp a “wife-beater,” Depp sued the paper for libel in the English court. He later sued Heard in Virginia for libel in light of a Washington Post column in which he claimed she had falsely characterized him as a domestic abuser. Did the court do something funky here, too?

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court reversed.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. courts over disputes that arise in other countries. Washington (1945).

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And, Congress has so since the beginning, with George Washington signing the the First Patent Act into law in 1790. As Congress continued to legislatively develop the statute, courts also added common law nuance, including the law of patent eligibility. The district court quickly dismissed the case under R.12(b)(6),

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Patently O

AUGUST 8, 2022

The short provision has remained essentially unchanged since it was originally handwritten in the 1700s and signed into law by President George Washington. But the courts have taken the general provision and given it substantial meaning beyond the text.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. Oklahoma courts have extended the McGirt holding to include other Indian reservations, including that of the Cherokee Nation.

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