JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Idaho legislators proposed a bill Friday calling on Congress to close a legal loophole in a region encompassing an uninhabited 50-square mile tract of land within Yellowstone National Park, which supposedly permits the commission of serious criminal acts such as murder and kidnapping without consequences.

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MAY 28, 2024

s argument in its fight at the Federal Circuit that Idaho's law barring "bad faith" allegations of patent infringement is constitutional. Attorneys general from 27 states, along with tech industry lobbying groups, have thrown their support behind Micron Technology Inc.'s

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FEBRUARY 15, 2025

“Idaho Supreme Court hears arguments to reconsider ruling on ski area liability law; Justices say law as written is contradictory, difficult to interpret after major lawsuit against Sun Valley Resort”: Betsy Z. Russell of Idaho Capital Sun has this report.

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MAY 4, 2021

“US appeals court considers Idaho transgender athletes ban”: Keith Ridler of The Associated Press has this report. Mark Walsh of Education Week reports that “ Appeals Court Weighs Idaho Law Barring Transgender Female Students From Girls’ Sports.” ” The U.S. .” ” The U.S.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A temporary program in Idaho that houses “dangerously mentally ill” patients, who often face no criminal charges, in prisons has continued for five decades, Audrey Dutton reports for ProPublica. Idaho has continued to ignore warnings over and over that its law fails mental health patients by sending them to a cell block.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A former law professor at the University of Idaho has settled her racial and gender discrimination lawsuit against the school for $750,000 following an October…

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“How Elizabeth Prelogar Stands Up to a Runaway Supreme Court: From Idaho beauty pageants to Harvard Law School to the chambers of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the solicitor general of the United States has stood in front of judges all her life; Yet her role as the government’s last line of defense may be her toughest yet.”

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A public defender's representation of the accused University of Idaho murderer after prior representation of a victim's parent doesn't constitute a violation of conflict of interest rules, but the case prompts ethical questions about navigating client conflicts in small-town criminal defense and big-city corporate law alike, say Hilary Gerzhoy and (..)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The bulk of Baltimore's proposed class action against Merck over its rotavirus vaccine bundling can go to class certification, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, finding that Merck may very well have violated antitrust laws through its "loyalty" program for an essential pediatric vaccine, but also tossing two claims under Idaho and Utah antitrust (..)

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Since Idaho is a fault-based state there is no requirement for drivers to obtain PIP.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Western Watersheds Project and other wildlife groups are suing the state over a new law that allows hunter to trap and kill wolves.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

Additionally, if municipalities pass authorizing legislation, county or municipal attorneys may also enforce the law. The bill also removes the public library exemption from the state’s criminal obscenity laws. This means that state governments are free to pass laws that limit obscene speech.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You probably know the refrain: No attorney was involved here.

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 17, 2023

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled for a transgender college student who challenged an Idaho law that bars transgender athletes from participating in women’s…

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

An Idaho judge has issued a $250,000 arrest warrant for anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, the man who organized a takeover of an Oregon wildlife reserve that left one of his supporters dead, Andrew Buncombe reports for The Guardian. Bundy fell foul of the court after not attending hearings in relation to a $52.5m

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JUNE 29, 2021

In the most recent study, Idaho was singled out as relying almost entirely on penalties and fines to fund its judicial system, even as the state confronts more than $195 million in uncollected court debt. Mostly white and rural states like Idaho regularly impose substantial monetary sanctions on people without the means to pay them.”.

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2024

Six major book publishers Friday sued the Florida Department of Education, challenging a 2023 state law used to restrict books in school libraries. The plaintiffs are suing on the basis that the state law is overbroad and violates the freedom of expression protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Authorities allege that Google’s collection of location information violated the participating states’ consumer protection laws because “ Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2023

In the United States of America at least 22 states, including Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi and Texas have already passed laws banning trans women and girls from women’s sports leagues in schools and colleges, according to US nonprofit, the Movement Advancement Project.

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Above The Law

MARCH 2, 2022

New Florida law makes panhandling a fineable offense. Deep rooted: Idaho wants to use contract to make sure that its Med students actually practice there once they earn their honorifics. Idaho Capital Sun ]. . Idaho Capital Sun ]. appeared first on Above the Law. The Real Deal ]. * The post Morning Docket: 03.02.22

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

The University of Idaho has lost a major free speech and religious freedom case after a federal judge ruled in favor of three Christian law students at College of Law. Students, faculty, and staff from the law school gathered in front of the Moscow, Idaho, campus to express support for all students.

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Above The Law

MARCH 16, 2022

Ag-Gag law ruled unconstitutional. [ Seeing double: Idaho is about to pass their version of the Texas Roe work-around. appeared first on Above the Law. . * Reframing biodiversity discussions may play a key role in how litigants represent Nature. [ The Guardian ]. Can’t do that! Des Moines Register ]. Huffington Post ].

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The Crime Report

MAY 7, 2021

A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, reports the Chicago Tribune. A female teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Supreme Court to allow Idaho to ban transgender care for minors (Laura Guido, Idaho Press) The Supreme Court cases to watch over the next 2 months (Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News) Making Sense of the “Good Neighbor” Applications (Steve Vladeck) Texas’s Social-Media Law Is Dangerous. Striking It Down Could Be Worse.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

The plaintiffs allege that this provision violates the Virginia Readmission Act , a law passed in 1870 alongside a series of statutes to readmit representatives from former Confederate states to Congress. According to the complaint, only nine crimes were considered felonies under Virginia common law in 1870.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

There is an interesting defamation case out of Idaho in which Rebecca Scofield , an associate professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Idaho, is suing TikTok personality Ashley Guillard for defamation. to murder the students. Bower, 232 Cal.App.3d 3d 1599, 1608 (1991).

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Above The Law

AUGUST 24, 2021

The Discrimination Case Against Idaho Law Moves Forward: Professor beat summary judgment. Associates Behaving Badly: Allegedly trying to leverage the pandemic for their own benefit. But More Biglaw Firms Are Requiring Vaccination: With full FDA approval, what are others even waiting for? For Michael Avenatti over Brady violations.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2022

It is no longer illegal to braid hair in Idaho without a cosmetology license. In other news, it was once illegal to braid hair in Idaho without a cosmetology license. appeared first on Above the Law. . * Just change the words a little: Ohio copies Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. Dispatch ]. * The post Morning Docket: 04.07.22

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

AP ] * Blame US Trade laws for fentanyl. AP ] * Blame US Trade laws for fentanyl. appeared first on Above the Law. Courthouse News Service ] * El Chapo lawyer launches music career. [ Reuters ] * Alaska's taxing AI and they've got a pretty good plan. and then immediately shut down that competitor.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Idaho's attorney general told a federal court on Tuesday that his office would be moving to defend the constitutionality of a largely untested law passed in Boise to let companies use federal courts in the state to punish so-called patent trolls.

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Above The Law

APRIL 16, 2024

* Supreme Court authorizes Idaho's anti-trans care law with Justice Gorsuch writing that the decision might abuse the standard notion of the Court's shadow docket power, but all the justices who created those precedents are dead now and we have a supermajority so YOLO (you'd be shocked at how lightly paraphrased that is too).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2024

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court gives skeptical eye to key statute used to prosecute Jan.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The accused Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho. The group, named “The Terrorgram Collective,” celebrated terrorist attacks around the world and solicited further attacks, prosecutors told a federal court in Sacramento, California.

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APRIL 15, 2022

The lawsuit poses a challenge to a recent state law prohibiting transgender women from participating in women's athletics events sponsored by public schools, colleges, and universities.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Berkeley Law School provides a good case study in how "campus free speech," addressing both the complexity the issue can raise when politics and identity become intertwined, and how the whole concept has boiled down to a cudgel to harass left-leaning students. [ New Jersey Law Journal ]. * Eastern Oregon is trying to join Idaho again.

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MARCH 11, 2024

The other is the continuing lack of public access to the law. We can never fully resolve the access to justice crisis unless we also resolve the lack of free and open access to the law. For many with legal problems, simply knowing the law and their rights is the first step toward achieving a resolution.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the group posted more than 1,000 pieces of racist propaganda between June and August, marched in Indianapolis, and in Boston in July, where they are accused of assaulting a Black man with shields.

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