Constitutional Law Georgia Litigating Litigation 
JonathanTurley
JULY 5, 2021
From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. The Georgia lawsuit. Likewise, Biden falsely claimed Georgia’s law prevents voters in line at polling places from getting water.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 22, 2022
It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments.
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Paralegal Bootcamp
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. I remember spending weeks up in north Georgia in a warehouse with traffic lights so that the semis didn’t run you over if you were crossing INSIDE the warehouse. They let me take charge in a way that was at a much higher level than your typical civil litigation case.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 9, 2021
If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The Justice Department has maintained this broader definition in prior litigation declared in 2021 that Pence was shielded by the “speech or debate” clause in a civil lawsuit. Graham after Graham invoked the clause to decline to testify on the Georgia allegations of election interference.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 28, 2023
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld critical provisions in Florida election law reforms, including provisions that Democratic politicians and pundits spent years misrepresenting as “a return to Jim Crow.” Elias and others also lost similar efforts in Georgia.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 8, 2021
district court in Georgia became the fourth court to enjoin a Biden Administration vaccine mandate this week. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the Associated Builders and Contractors, a national trade group that represents the construction industry.
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