CourtTechBulletin

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A Texas Armadillo We learned on November 17, 2020, that: “The Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA), a judicial branch agency that assists the Supreme Court of Texas with the administration of the Texas courts, invites submissions of offers for a statewide, integrated, comprehensive, cloud?based

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency motion Tuesday seeking to immediately block Texas’ controversial abortion restriction pending further proceedings. The DOJ filed suit against Texas earlier this month, challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 8 (SB 8). 8 purports to prohibit.”

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2022

The Texas Supreme Court Friday ruled against abortion providers’ federal challenge to a state abortion ban, holding that certain state officials do not have the authority to enforce the law. Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, was passed last year. It bans all abortions after six weeks.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a 5 t-4 vote, the US Supreme Court granted a request on Tuesday to temporarily stay a ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas that vacated a rule regarding “ghost guns” from the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

A disability rights group filed a complaint in federal district court on Tuesday against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting government agencies from issuing a mask mandate.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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JURIST

AUGUST 17, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday to restrict use of mifepristone, an abortion pill, by prohibiting its delivery by mail or prescription via telemedicine. However, the ruling will not take immediate effect due to an April ruling from the US Supreme Court temporarily protecting access to the drug.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share A pair of challenges to controversial social media laws in Texas and Florida and a dispute over whether to freeze the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce ozone levels across the United States headline the Supreme Court’s February 2024 argument calendar , which was released on Friday morning. Nealy (Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Share The Supreme Court rejected a request from Texas inmate Stephen Barbee to postpone his execution, scheduled for Wednesday evening, after a judge ruled that the state was not adequately protecting inmates’ religious rights in the execution chamber. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit lifted Hoyt’s order on Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Challenge to vaccine-or-test mandate could upend already shaky precedent on agency deference (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service). Wade, dies at 76 (Jake Bleiberg, Associated Press).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Share Oyez has posted the aligned audio and transcripts from the February 2022 oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument in: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Environmental Protection Agency. United States. City and County of San Francisco. West Virginia v. United States.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh's exit from the agency may shift its priorities, the ways artificial intelligence is introducing challenges to labor disputes and bargaining and how an obesity discrimination case headed to the Texas Supreme Court represents a growing trend in disability bias law.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases this week. The two most closely watched involve whether the Court should overrule its landmark decision in Chevron v. The Court’s Chevron decision established a bedrock principle of administrative law. The cases before the Court, Relentless, Inc. 837 (1984).

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Law 360

MAY 9, 2023

Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone in 2000 slammed the agency's allegedly "decades-long pattern of delay and obfuscation" and urged the Fifth Circuit to uphold a Texas ruling that would have blocked access to the common abortifacient last month had the U.S. Supreme Court not intervened.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

8, the Texas law that bans abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, has been many things, but never ordinary. Many states have criminalized abortion after a doctor could detect fetal cardiac activity, but Texas authorized lawsuits against abortion doctors and anyone else who “aids or abets” them. The litigation surrounding S.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court has granted review in eight cases, six of them relisted, on four different order lists. Of course, the court also denied cert for a couple relists. 21 conference. That’s all for this week.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit striking down some provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Although the district court largely agreed with the challengers, the en banc 5th Circuit later upheld various provisions. In Texas v. Four petitions involve a decision by the en banc U.S. In Cherokee Nation v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The United States is easily the most successful petitioner before the Supreme Court, winning review in over 70% of the cases in which it files a cert petition. Federal Trade Commission.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. Defense attorneys would have protested if they knew what was going on, but county and court officials kept the arrangement quiet among themselves. The 2nd U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

Supreme Court recently returned to the bench for its February sitting. The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. Below is a brief summary of the cases before the Court: Denezpi v. Texas : The case involves gaming activities on Native American land in Texas. Texas , 36 F.3d

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , a five-justice majority on Wednesday allowed a military veteran’s lawsuit against his former state-agency employer to go forward, rejecting the state’s argument that it was shielded by sovereign immunity. A Texas court of appeals agreed. Share In Torres v. New Jersey.

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Gravel2Gavel

JUNE 30, 2021

SUPREME COURT . On June 28, 2021, the Supreme Court decided the case of Pakdel v. THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. The latest CEQ NEPA revisions became a final rule in 2020 and established a deadline for federal agencies to propose changes to their own NEPA rules by September 14, 2021. Township of Scott.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. Le Roy Torres served as both a Texas state trooper and a U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will thus begin the process of considering what cases to review next fall during October Term 2022. The district court and U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court on Monday granted review in four consolidated cases that involve the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled that the seating of a biased juror can violate the constitutional right to an impartial jury. The state supreme court disagreed. Carnahan v.

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Patently O

MARCH 9, 2022

Texas do not count as a “place of business” of the car distributors. In Fourco (1957), and again in TC Heartland (2017), the Supreme Court gave weight to the patent-focused statute. In 2020, StratosAudio sued VW Group of America (VW) for patent infringement in Judge Albright’s court located in Waco, Texas.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2024

The court has some of the trees right on its grounds, and they will be a backdrop to much expressive activity over today’s lone case — Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine , about the agency’s 2016 and 2021 actions easing access to the abortion drug mifepristone. Soon enough, I see Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.,

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. But the law caught the attention of a number of states and industry players, which have been fighting it in court ever since. The district court dismissed both claims.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

2021), the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals addressed challenges to the constitutionality of the structure of the Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Mobility sued T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas in 2017. Arthrex , 141 S. Arthrex , 141 S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share With two dozen cases from its 2021-22 term still undecided, the Supreme Court on Tuesday released the first argument calendar for its 2022-23 term. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit used the correct test to determine whether wetlands are “waters of the United States” for purposes of the Clean Water Act. Goertz (Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit eventually affirmed the district court’s denial of the legislators’ attempt on the ground that the state attorney general was adequately defending the law. 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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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Supreme Court has not yet granted writ of certiorari in any patent cases this term. Still, there are a number of important patent cases pending before the court. Still, there are a number of important patent cases pending before the court. The court recently denied certiorari in Yu v. by Dennis Crouch.

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Patently O

APRIL 17, 2024

Ana Santos Rutschman, From Myriad to Moderna: The Modern Pharmaceutical Company , Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law (2024) (forthcoming). ” The article leverages the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. 1277 (2024).

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In Dubin v.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In February 2021, US Inventor and others collectively sued the USPTO asking the court to order the USPTO to issue rulemaking regarding discretionary considerations at the institution stage of AIA Trials. Abuse of Discretion : Courts and administrators are often given discretionary authority to make decisions. by Dennis Crouch.

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