Constitutional Law Reporter
AUGUST 28, 2023
Facts of the Case Robert Mallory worked for Norfolk Southern as a freight-car mechanic for nearly 20 years, first in Ohio, then in Virginia. After he left the company, Mallory moved to Pennsylvania for a period before returning to Virginia. Along the way he was diagnosed with cancer.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 14, 2021
Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. Virginia ) all laid the groundwork for modern jurisprudence in those areas.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Under my proposal, the mall and core federal buildings would remain the District of Columbia (as is the case in this legislation) but the remainder of the District would retrocede back to Maryland (as did the other half of the original District to Virginia). Again, that constitutional option has never been in doubt and never debated.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 25, 2023
According to the Court’s conservative majority, the First Amendment prohibits the state of Colorado from forcing Smith to create expressive designs speaking messages with which she disagrees. In reaching its decision, the Court relied heavily on First Amendment precedent established in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale , 530 U.S.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 4, 2021
The intermediate appellate court held that the defendant was not entitled to present the defense because he had “reasonable legal alternatives” to trespass and obstruction even if those alternatives were not effective. The district court held that the plaintiffs did not have standing and that their claims were not ripe. BP p.l.c. ,
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Look at what happened this month in Virginia.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 27, 2022
In Virginia, Gov. Roe is now presented as inviolate and beyond question in its constitutional footing, while the opinion that slew it is presented as threatening every right secured since 1973. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. The process just might surprise us.
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