JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an electric chair for executions was unconstitutional. After the convictions, South Carolina passed Bill 200 , which changed the default method of execution in the state to electrocution.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolinas governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid.

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2023

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic joined two physicians and Greenville Women’s Clinic to file a petition Thursday asking the Supreme Court of South Carolina to reconsider its decision to uphold a strict state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

The new cases involve a challenge to an animal-welfare law in California, a death-penalty issue in Arizona, and a copyright dispute over an Andy Warhol work. South Carolina applies to Arizona, also applies to cases that are pending on collateral review. The justices granted review in National Pork Producers Council v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

Massachusetts and South Carolina are the only two states remaining where the violation is not illegal. Some legal advocates cautioned that the measure the House embraced was too broadly written and could unintentionally sweep people into a new criminal statute.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

The court did not find either situation to be the case because “[t]he statute does not prevent medical providers from treating children with gender dysphoria with [alternative treatments], nor does it prohibit them from providing those medical procedures to adults.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. South Carolina v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We’re not a law enforcement or compliance agency.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

South Carolina that in cases where a capital defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, due process entitles the defendant to inform the jury that he will be ineligible for parole if not sentenced to death. Arizona applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. South Carolina to present evidence of her good behavior in prison. She also notes that in Skipper v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). We also have a potential duel case out of Aiken, South Carolina from one year ago.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). We also have a potential duel case out of Aiken, South Carolina from one year ago.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The same law is at the center of Environmental Protection Agency v. The Supreme Court recently invalidated a removal restriction for an agency headed by a single official in Seila Law LLC v. The Bruen test, the state court added, was “fuzzy,” “backward-looking,” and “unravels durable law.” Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 2023

They relied on Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the federal law barring sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. Ohio State argued that the victims’ lawsuits were filed too late, because the statute of limitations for their claims was two years. South Carolina v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment. The court also relied on Rahimi and Bruen to support their opinion.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. Conservation Law Foundation v. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Source: Khanrak ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

cities slightly increased their law enforcement spending as a percentage of their combined 2021 budgets. In July 2020, in response to President Donald Trump sending camouflaged and heavily armed federal law enforcement to Portland, Oregon, to arrest protesters and protect federal property, Pelosi tweeted , “Unidentified storm troopers.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). However, many areas of Europe have good Samaritan laws protecting such rescuers.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2025

But the dispute has drawn widespread attention because of the context in which it came to the justices: an attempt by South Carolina to exclude Planned Parenthood from the states Medicaid program because it provides abortions. Under federal law, Medicaid funds cannot generally be used for abortions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

The government argues that the court usually grants review when a court of appeals has invalidated the application of a federal statute, and that the court granted review in both Iancu v. That court dismissed the claim on the merits because it was filed after the two-year statute of limitations had expired. On appeal, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 18, 2023

The court’s grant suggests the court may be poised to narrow the scope of standing for members of Congress to sue to enforce statutes. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , involving allegations of racial gerrymandering in a South Carolina congressional district. First up is Calcutt v. Chenery Corp.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 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. First, the court found that Exxon failed to show that federal common law justified removal, even if it might provide a defense. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

It relied on a federal trademark law, Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act, that prohibits the registration of a trademark that uses the name of another living person without that individual’s permission. South Carolina , she had a constitutional right to present evidence of her good behavior in prison.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. Texas abortion law. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to send their challenge to Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law back to U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 3, 2024

Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned that the majority’s decision would sweep expansively, so that “[i]n every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” United States , the justices narrowed the scope of a federal criminal statute under which hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants – including Trump – were charged.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Disclosure: My law firm, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, is among the counsel to the respondent in the Baltimore case. South Carolina Coastal Council. Disclosure: My law firm, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, is among the counsel to the respondent. I am not involved in the case.]. New York City and Lucas v.

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