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

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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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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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2022

50 years ago today, the Supreme Court in their opinion on Furman v. The decision forced federal and state governments to review their statutes to ensure that administration of the death penalty did not discriminate and was applied consistent to the Eight Amendment, prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Common Pleas Court Judge Paula Patrick issued an order on Friday that Mayor Jim Kenney and the city of Philadelphia must remove the plywood box covering a statue of Christopher Columbus. In Washington, police made the “tactical decision” to stand by and watch a mob destroy a statue. He might be right.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments early next year in a case involving a member of one of Chicago’s most prominent political dynasties, a relatively rare capital case, and Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. A federal appeals court in Chicago rejected that contention, prompting him to go to the Supreme Court.

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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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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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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The likeliest grant out of last week’s relists got the nod: The Supreme Court will decide in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. The court denied review to five-time relist Donziger v. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. It’s now June — the home stretch of the Supreme Court’s term, and yet there are still 33 cases still undecided. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed. We have just one new relist this week.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

The department pointed to the Arizona statute allowing a defendant sentenced to death to choose between lethal injection or lethal gas at least 20 days before the execution date. Supreme Court lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in 1976. In Arizona, where 115 inmates are on death row, hydrogen cyanide has been deployed before.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

That question kept Colleen Sinzdak, counsel for the US government, busy for almost all of her argument before the US Supreme Court earlier today. This case asks the Supreme Court to decide whether 18 U.S.C. § The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. United States.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The United States is easily the most successful petitioner before the Supreme Court, winning review in over 70% of the cases in which it files a cert petition. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Compulsory training on this “duty” would augment its effectiveness, Kaufman adds.

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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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