JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

We previously discussed the treatment of Professor Jason Kilborn, who was put on indefinite administrative leave after using a censured version of the n-word in an exam question at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). COUNT II Violation of University of Illinois Statutes. University-of-Illinois-Chicago-—-Complaint1.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

There are no laws or statutes criminalizing pedophilia. Recently a series of news stories were published in Joliet, Illinois, by Joliet’s local Patch homepage. Laws that are based on falsehoods and incorrect beliefs do not advance public safety. These are the facts about the term pedophilia.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday granted Danone Waters of America's request to dismiss a putative class action accusing the Evian-maker of violating Illinois and California state consumer fraud statutes by labeling its spring water as "natural" even though the product contains microplastics, finding the claims are preempted by federal law.

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Law 360

APRIL 30, 2021

Nursing home operator Symphony Bronzeville Park urged the Illinois Supreme Court on Friday to reverse a state appellate court's finding that Illinois' workers' compensation law doesn't preempt claims for statutory damages under its biometric privacy statute, saying a former employee is seeking a new, judicial exception for her alleged workplace injury. (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

He sued the agency on behalf of a class of individual consumers, arguing that TVA charged them more for electricity so that it could subsidize its commercial rates in violation of the agency’s founding statute. In Holbrook v. Kelley-Lomax v. Holbrook v.

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Mondaq

JULY 8, 2022

Unique among state laws, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") creates a private right of action for "any person aggrieved" by a violation of the statute and provides for statutory damages of $1,000 for.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

As a result, litigation under privacy laws protecting individuals’ biometric information has exploded. In January, a group of New York state legislators introduced a biometrics regulation bill that contains a private right of action similar to the already enacted Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In re TikTok Inc.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Prosecutors had argued that the claim was spurious on the grounds that the teenager’s decision to bring an AR-15 to the protest made him an “initial aggressor” under Wisconsin law. jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One is the justices’ law clerks, who are once again relegated to the alcoves on the right side of the courtroom. District Judge Robert Dow, who serves in the Northern District of Illinois, will succeed Minear beginning Dec. The other is the press, who are back in their regular section on the left (side of the courtroom, that is).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The case involves the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. Bradley LeDure, a former Union Pacific engineer, fell on a locomotive while it was parked in a railyard in Salem, Illinois. Union Pacific Railroad Company.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2011

Like " Super Bowl ," "Olympics" and "NASCAR," "March Madness" is also a term that is protected by trademark law, and its unauthorized use in commercials could result in legal liability. But the development of March Madness is a bit more interesting, and you can probably thank Brent Musburger for that.

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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. The law on this subject is complicated. 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.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

On general jurisdiction, the Federal Circuit noted “Siemens AG is a German company, organized and existing under German law, with principal places of business in Munich and Berlin, and it has had no U.S. The court also agreed Siemens AG could not be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in Illinois. offices, no U.S.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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Patently O

JANUARY 18, 2024

The appeal included both IPR procedural issues and substantive patent law issues. However, the law is more flexible with joinder, and LG was permitted to join the IPR already filed by ZTE. Former Illinois Law Professor Jay Kesan represented the patentee here. Citing its recent rulings on this issue in Arthrex, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. Missouri does not appear to have a formal retraction law, but it is still considered a necessary step. .” These retraction letters are often the open salvo in defamation actions. The letter notifies Carron J. Phillips, Deadspin, G/O Media, and Great Hill Partners.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 25, 2017

These sound recordings are not covered by Federal law. As the obligation to pay SoundExchange only applies to recordings covered by Federal law, some digital services were not paying for the performance of these songs. But that law stops short of full Federalization of pre-1972 sound recordings.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

and California supreme courts have held Miranda warnings are not necessary before a defendant speaks to an undercover agent, but neither has decided whether that so-called Perkins operation ( Illinois v. Perkins (1990) 496 U.S. 292) is OK after the defendant has said he doesn’t want to be questioned. In People v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). Could California decide differently?

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

University of Illinois Foundation (1971), the Supreme Court held that a judgment of invalidity in a suit against one infringer accrues to the benefit of any other accused infringer unless the patent owner shows that he did not have a fair opportunity procedurally, substantively and evidentially to pursue his patent claim the first time.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

States such as Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, California, Florida Georgia , Texas, Arizona, and Oregon have emerged as major data center hubs and are now faced with the challenge of upgrading their grids to bring more electricity to them. On April 8, 2024, FERC approved a $5.1 The cost allocation debate has caused tensions in regions of the U.S.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday recommended that the Senate pass the Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act to empower victims of child sex abuse by removing the statute of limitations for federal civil child sex abuse claims, giving survivors unlimited time to file the claims.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2023

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a comprehensive report Tuesday naming over 450 child sex abusers within Catholic Church leadership in the state. The report names and provides information for 451 Church leaders within Illinois that account for 1,997 counts of abuse.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

When Patel later sought to adjust his status to lawful permanent resident and obtain a green card, a divided panel of the Board of Immigration Appeals denied him relief, holding that he is inadmissible because he “falsely represented” himself as a U.S. citizen for a benefit under state law. They challenge that determination.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

United States , the justices agreed to weigh in on a federal sentencing law that imposes a mandatory minimum sentence for anyone who carries a gun during a “crime of violence.” In Delligatti v. The court will meet for another private conference on Thursday, June 6; orders from that conference are expected on Monday, June 10, at 9:30 a.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Prentice , involving an Illinois prisoner’s claim that his nearly three-year term of solitary confinement constituted cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. Under federal law , tribes are allowed to keep insurance payments so long as they spend the proceeds on health care. United States , Thomas v. 3 and Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Circuit upheld the regulation, holding that “the disputed rule is consistent with the best interpretation of ‘machine gun’ under the governing statutes.” In Cargill , the en banc U.S. ” (relisted after the Sept. 13 and Oct 27 conferences) Tingley v. relisted after the Sept. 13 and Oct 27 conferences) 74 Pinehurst LLC v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

The relevant provision applies to all service “pursuant to a call or order to active duty” under a number of specifically enumerated provisions of law, as well as under “any other provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared by the President or Congress.” The applicable law may be state law.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

LeDure asked the justices to interpret a key phrase of the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. Equally divided decisions are not precedential: The 7 th Circuit’s decision is left in place but does not become the law of the land.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

1605(a)(3), which creates an exception to foreign sovereign immunity when the case concerns “rights in property taken in violation of international law.” Their claim did not arise under the ATS or under state law, but under the FSIA itself. The law seems clear, to me at least. But is the outcome a bad outcome?

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At the Lectern

JULY 25, 2024

Supreme Court opinion in Illinois v. The unpublished Second District, Division Five, opinion rejected constitutional challenges to the statute that prevents parole hearings for defendants serving life without parole sentences for special circumstances murders committed between the ages of 18 and 26. Perkins (1990) 496 U.S. In People v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 29, 2024

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and campaign supporter of Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sullivan , Justice Hugo Black said that “state libel laws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” It has limits, however—most notably the standard statute of limitations, which commonly range from one to four years. In Chicago v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Jane Doe, then an unemancipated 17-year-old, went to Missouri state court seeking to be granted a judicial bypass under state law that would allow her to obtain an abortion without her parents being notified. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit affirmed. And then the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v.

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