JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the US Supreme Court Friday passed an injunction on a New York trial court’s order directing Yeshiva University to recognise “Pride Alliance” as official student club. The statute prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2022

The Inspector General said that the program would violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), a law meant to prevent fraud and abuse in connection with Medicare and Medicaid. A district court in New York upheld the DHHS’s interpretation of the AKS.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

On Wednesday, Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court ruled that six of the charges should be dropped for a “lack of detail concerning an essential legal element,” an oversight the judge described as “fatal.” Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

But the court left the door open for the bank to press a different immunity argument in the lower courts. Federal prosecutors in New York indicted the bank in 2019 on charges that it had participated in a multi-year scheme to launder billions of dollars stemming from the sales of Iranian oil and natural gas, in violation of U.S.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 10, 2023

“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”: Margaret Baker of The Biloxi Sun Herald has this report. Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press reports that “ Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case.”

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HowAppealing

APRIL 14, 2024

6 Obstruction Case at Supreme Court Could Help Trump and Many Others; The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could alter hundreds of prosecutions for the assault on the Capitol and help define its meaning”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. “Jan. Lawrence Hurley and Ryan J.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 15, 2023

“Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law; At issue in the case was whether a law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes is constitutional”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” This morning, the U.S. .” ” This morning, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Supreme Court has ruled that victims of discrimination, which is forbidden by four federal statutes, may not sue if the only harm was emotional distress, reports the New York Times. She claimed to have suffered “humiliation, frustration and emotional distress” as a result.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 9, 2021

“Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily restored by federal appeals court”: Madlin Mekelburg of The Austin American-Statesman has this report. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link. ” Ann E. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Share Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday afternoon granted, at least for now, a request by Yeshiva University to block a New York state court ruling that directed the university to approve an official “Pride Alliance” student club. The state trial court agreed and ordered the university to recognize a Pride Alliance club.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. As expected, with the exception of the three liberal justices, the Court appears to be struggling to find a more nuanced approach that would avoid the extreme positions of both parties. Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. The ruling is based on 2022 Supreme Court ruling New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The case concerned Emmanuel Ayala, U.S. 18 U.S.C. §

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Fifth Circuit recently reversed the trial court, ruling that the federal statute conflicts with the Second Amendment. The court ruled that “even as a marihuana user, Daniels is a member of our political community, Therefore, he has a presumptive right to bear arms. Bruen to toss out the sentence.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

New York v. million New Yorkers who itemized their deductions on their federal tax returns was $21,943. McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of its compliance with Georgia’s registration statute for foreign corporations. New York v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take an appeal by anti-abortion activists in a First Amendment dispute with Planned Parenthood, as well as a test of New Jersey’s “slogan statutes.” A jury awarded Planned Parenthood nearly $2.5 The specific question at issue in Mazo v. 6 attacks on the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Three years ago, the court agreed to take up this question in another case, United States v. Instead, a unanimous court ruled that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had improperly injected the issue into the case. Sineneng-Smith , but it did not resolve it. citizens through adoption. citizens through adoption.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

The district court ruled for Medical Marijuana and the other companies on Horn’s RICO claim. The companies came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to take up the case and weigh in.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It argued that these claims were not viable because the policy’s choice-of-law provision had designated New York as the governing law in the absence of applicable federal maritime law. Because the claims were based on Pennsylvania statutes, it argued, they were barred by the choice-of-law clause. Raiders opposed this motion.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Emami , a challenge to a New York regulation that requires employers to fund abortions through their employee health plans, back to the lower courts for another look. New York countered that the justices should deny review because the requirement only applies to insurance companies who provide insurance in New York.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the makings of a blockbuster case in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 21, 2022

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York State’s legislative bodies have crafted new laws to help prevent tenants’ evictions. 4] Landlords sued New York State’s Chief Administrative Judge, County Sheriffs, and other officials throughout the state— challenging CEEFPA on constitutional grounds. [5]

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Horn went to federal court in New York, arguing that the company that sold Dixie X, Medical Marijuana, Inc. The district court ruled for the company on Horn’s RICO claim. Shortly after, he failed a random drug test at work and was fired.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. Concealed carry is allowed in all 50 states, and a Supreme Court ruling is expected shortly in a New York case about whether individuals have a Second Amendment right to carry guns openly in self-defense.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But the lower courts ruled, and the federal government contends, that the “safety value” is only available to defendants who do not have any of the indicators. But the district court dismissed the three counterclaims that were based on Pennsylvania law. Raiders Retreat filed five counterclaims.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed. The court of appeals refused, instead expediting argument. By a split vote, the 6th Circuit then reversed the lower courts’ rulings , concluding that the states were likely to win their appeals. The court thus allowed the laws go into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

“It is far better — for this Court and the country — to face up to the real issue without delay,” Alito concluded. Although he advocated for an incremental approach on abortion, Roberts joined Thomas’ opinion for the court in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Expanding gun rights. And in West Virginia v.

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MyCase

AUGUST 16, 2022

For example, Nevada lawyers will have a different retirement process than New York lawyers. According to Law.com , attorney retirement in New York is “remarkably complex” with “variations of ‘retire’… used in different contexts.” Consider Retirement Benefits. Prepare an Exit Plan. Complete Your Estate Planning.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. He is facing criminal charges in New York. It ruled that the Virginia courts would likely apply the California law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2024

After the painting was looted, it found its way into the United States and, in 1976, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought it from the Hahn Gallery of New York, where the painting was publicly in display, allegedly ignoring its origin. The Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza purchased the painting from the Baron in 1993.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The justices did not act on several high-profile petitions for review on issues such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, the clash between religious freedom and LGBTQ rights, and a challenge to a New York regulation that requires employers to fund abortions through their employee health plans.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

After the court ruled that Congress could access the records (over a solo dissent from Thomas), The Washington Post and CBS revealed that Thomas’ wife, Ginni, had repeatedly urged President Donald Trump’s chief of staff to negate the election results in the fall of 2020.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. In New York Times v. Civil and statutory claims can be curtailed by constitutional limitations. This is such a case in my view.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. The inability to secure a notary on a holiday has ruled out the waivers for the toddlers to sign, but I have avoided any stripper-trained, territorial monkeys.

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