Lawyers Maryland Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2023
Share Kevin Younger was detained before trial at a state prison in Baltimore, Maryland. The statute requires exhaustion as a matter of law; whether remedies were available for an individual prisoner is a fact-specific inquiry. Lawyers may be in the awkward position of having to raise non-meritorious claims to preserve them for appeal.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 20, 2021
In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) with the language of the statute. Representing the oil and gas companies, lawyer Kannon Shanmugam told the justices that 28 U.S.C.
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SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
One “friend of the court” brief filed in support of Pulsifer tells the justices that the lower court’s ruling “turns the statute on its head by foreclosing safety-valve relief for the vast majority of defendants to whom the statutory amendment might apply.”
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 6, 2025
Disclosure: This case was brought by a lawyer at my firm; I am not involved in the case.] During jury selection, the prospective juror who went on to be the foreman said he was a self-published author, but Shockleys lawyers didnt ask him about it. Choy , Berk now asks the Supreme Court to intervene. Relisted after the Jan. 21 and Feb.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2023
United States , involving a separation of powers challenge to the appointment of private lawyers to prosecute a contempt of court. The National Marine Fisheries Service construed the governing statute to allow it to require industry to pay the salaries of those monitors. But all was not sweetness and light. A divided panel of the U.S.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Fifty sexual abuse survivors have opened a lawsuit against the Maryland government, alleging rampant sexual abuse of young people in six of the states juvenile justice facilities over five decades, Erin Cox and Steve Thompson report for the Washington Post.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Even if she never intended to stay at the hotel, the court of appeals concluded, “she was still injured in precisely the way the statute was designed to protect.” And more broadly, Acheson reminds the justices, its hotel and many others may not have their own lawyers and may not have been aware of the reservation rule.
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