SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the case of a Georgia student who was stopped from handing out religious literature and speaking about his faith on the campus of his public college. Those statutes deter wrongdoers in the regulated industries and allow consumers to vindicate their rights.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state. The United States legal system is immensely complex.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2022

Several important developments relating to Membership and HCCH Conventions occurred during the meeting: El Salvador deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, becoming the 91 st Member of the HCCH. On 1 January 2022, the HCCH 1965 Service Convention entered into force for Georgia. More information is available here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 25, 2017

Through litigation, certain copyright holders (including, most notably, Flo and Eddie of the 1960’s band The Turtles) have been seeking compensation from digital and analog music services for the public performance of pre-1972 sound recordings. But that law stops short of full Federalization of pre-1972 sound recordings.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Georgia and Illinois have reached similar decisions in slightly different cases (see our article here on the Georgia decision). As the Florida Supreme Court noted, the case in California is slightly different as there is a California statute that creates some sort of undefined property right in pre-1972 sound recordings.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

When must state prisoners alleging unconstitutional execution methods use habeas corpus petitions, and when may they proceed under the more general civil rights statute, 42 U.S.C. If a state prisoner must use habeas litigation, then federal courts will almost never reach the merits of the claim.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

1983 ; they are not forced into federal habeas litigation that is procedurally doomed. The Heck bar is a big deal to death-sentenced prisoners who challenge execution methods, because those challenges almost always ripen after the first round of federal habeas litigation finishes. But Texas had to change a regulation, not a statute.).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. His lengthy post-conviction litigation included a new sentencing proceeding in 2002 and, crucially, an earlier round of federal habeas corpus litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2023

The first case, Georgia-Pacific v. involves the trigger for the statute of limitations in cases under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act – also known as “Superfund” – for the clean-up of sites contaminated with hazardous pollutants. The case will likely be argued sometime in the fall.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system. The Furman Framework.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Ordinarily, under the so-called “American Rule,” each litigant pays its own attorney’s fees, whether it wins or loses. Certain statutes permit the payment of “a reasonable attorney’s fee” to “the prevailing party” in litigation: 42 U.S.C. Before the case could go to trial, the Virginia general assembly repealed the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. As associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, she helped litigate civil-rights cases in the South.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Supreme Court invalidated capital punishment statutes in several states in Furman v. And in another key metric suggesting how much death penalty litigation has altered the landscape, prisoners under sentence of death by the end of 2020 had been on death row for an average of 19.4 the height of the “war on crime” fears—and 71 in 2002.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2022

Over the past week, the pre-litigation battle between Donald Trump and the Department of Justice intensified over the unlawful possession of 184 documents bearing classification markings, including 25 marked top secret that were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago back in January 2022 by the National Archives and Records Administration. Photo via CNN.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

City of Union City, Georgia Judge Newsom / Eleventh Circuit / March 21, 2019 Case Overview The case involves a plaintiff, Lewis, who alleged discrimination after being terminated by her employer, the City of Union City, for failing to meet a physical qualification due to a chronic heart condition.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In Englewood, local resident Jeryl Turco has been litigating against her city’s regulation for nearly a decade, arguing that it frustrates her ability to share her religious opposition to abortion with patients entering the downtown abortion clinic. Anti-abortion activists went to court to challenge both city’s ordinances.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Within minutes of the leaking of a call between Trump and Georgia election officials, the same experts were declaring yet another clear crime. Now, he is insisting that the call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is clearly a criminal act. Georgia is a one party consent state). McNally, 483 U.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

EPA (2025), Barrett dissented in favor of the EPAs authority to impose receiving water limitations under the Clean Water Act, arguing that such limitations were useful when EPA issues general permits to broad categories of dischargers, and pushing back against the majoritys restrictive interpretation of the statute. Luxshare, Ltd.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court finding that the federal-officer removal statute did not provide jurisdiction.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. s consumer protection statute. Georgia , No. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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