JURIST

MAY 30, 2021

The Louisiana House of Representatives Thursday passed the controversial Senate Bill 156 requiring schools to designate athletic teams and sporting events based on the biological sex of the team members. The bill now moves to Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards to be signed into law.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

His attorney then filed a specific constitutional challenge to § 922(g)(8), arguing that the statute violated Rahimi’s Second Amendment right to own and possess firearms. He is the very kind of person § 922(g)(8) was directed at—a legal protection for their abused intimate partner. A federal grand jury indicted him under 18 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The government argues that although enablement inquiry requires some factual findings, it also includes questions of law, and the Federal Circuit properly set aside a jury verdict favoring Amgen on legal grounds. Louisiana , 21-993. relisted after the Oct. 28 conference). Returning Relists. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A federal appeals court in Louisiana agreed with Texan Zackey Rahimi, that the law, 18 U.S.C. § This use of “materially different means” to address the same problem targeted by Section 922(g)(8), Rahimi concludes, “tends to prove” that the statute is unconstitutional. But the Biden administration contends that the decision by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

She was charged under Louisiana law with malfeasance in office. The statute itself reads like criminalized negligence. Restitution shall include the payment of legal interest at the rate provided in R.S. The report was taken on August 23, 2021.”. She was ultimately dismissed after an investigation. Amended by Acts 1980, No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a unanimous 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Next up is Lackey v. relisted after the Apr.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana and eleven other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questioning their authority to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. In Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Many are grappling with the legal and practical consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs to overturn Roe v. The statute at issue in Dobbs did not deal with a prohibition on medical care in such circumstances. The statute also specifically provides an exception where the physician believes a medical emergency exists.

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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.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Wade, o pponents of abortion are pushing for stricter bans at state levels—even criminalizing women who travel outside their states where abortion remains legal. So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision. South Dakota.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The court also granted motions to strike the state law claims pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) statute. In an unpublished decision, the D.C.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. ” The Department hosted a virtual forum discussing its review of the program on Thursday.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. The states appealed the dismissal of the case.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For instance, the National Right to Life Committee and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation argue that the court should reject the “categorical viability line” and replace it with a new “roadmap” under which courts would consider all state interests when analyzing the constitutionality of prohibitions on pre-viability elective abortions.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In that case, Breyer led the majority in striking down a Nebraska criminal statute that made it unlawful to perform dilation-and-evacuation and similar abortion procedures even though the risks of mortality and morbidity to the pregnant person are significantly lower than induced-labor procedures. A close reading of Stenberg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

7 on whether the mandates can remain in place while challenges to their legality continue in the lower courts. A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states. Several challenges to the rule followed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. The court found that the plaintiff, who did not allege any legally cognizable relationship with the community college, had failed to allege Article III standing.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. Two years ago, when the Supreme Court denied review on a petition questioning the legality of that practice, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.)

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Although some justices questioned the legality of the policy, there were also questions about whether the states challenging the policy could bring their lawsuit at all, and whether a federal district judge had the power to set aside the policy. Texas and Louisiana went to federal court in Texas to challenge the policy. On the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. Renewable Fuels Association v.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. The federal district court for the Middle District of Louisiana enjoined work on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. C20134963 (Ariz.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

By contrast, legislatures can pass new laws if they disagree with a court’s interpretation of a statute.). Louisiana , the court ruled that the Sixth Amendment establishes a right to a unanimous jury that applies in both federal and state courts, overturning a prior ruling from 1972. Last year, in Ramos v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. The Biden administration returned to ask for an injunction from the same justices a few weeks later and for a ruling on the statute.

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JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Yet, many previously outspoken legal experts have either blamed conservative judges or simply ignored the losses all together. In Louisiana, a federal court enjoined the administration from carrying out its halting of gas and oil leases, finding that Biden’s unilateral action violated the separation of powers under the Constitution.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.” County of Maui v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

In Minnesota, the district court granted the State of Minnesota’s motion to remand its case, which asserts state law claims under common law and consumer protection statutes. s consumer protection statute. Louisiana Appellate Court Reversed Remand of Chemical Plant Air Permits to Agency. Frosh , No. County of Mono v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Legal scholars have addressed all three issues, and their work is prominently cited in the briefing on both sides. The “Morton Memos” were often ignored by ICE officers , and in any case did not give legal protection from removal to those undocumented immigrants categorized as lower priorities. Texas , set to be argued on Nov.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The court also noted that states and localities “expressly maintain control over the local distribution of natural gas under related federal statutes” such as the Natural Gas Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Intratek Computer , the government will weigh in on the effect of a federal whistleblower statute on an arbitration agreement between an employer and its employee. The other cases in which the justices denied review included: Louisiana v. The state courts agreed, prompting Louisiana to come to the court. In Robertson v.

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