JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act to enforce proposed power plant emission limitations in West Virginia v. ” In West Virginia v. ” The final ruling was 6-3 on ideological lines.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine cannot be an inventor under the Patent Act. The action was a motion for summary judgement concerning two patent applications filed by Stephen Thaler for an AI machine called DABUS.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial $6.6 billion natural-gas pipeline spanning just over 300 miles, from West Virginia’s northwestern border to southern Virginia. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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JURIST

MAY 24, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday overturned a decision from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that held the Virginia Fairfax County School Board’s (Board) new admissions policy violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Adair , in which a former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player sued over the alleged retaliation of her former coach, Charles “Chugger” Adair for her refusal to kneel while a “Unity Statement” was read over the loudspeakers. We previously discussed the case of Hening v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

In a case involving a former inmate who accused a Virginia prison of discrimination, a federal appeals court has held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers individuals with “gender dysphoria.”. The ruling expanded the legal consensus on the discrimination protections available to some transgender people.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Over a dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito, the court sent the case back to the lower courts with instructions to dismiss it as moot (that is, no longer a live controversy) because Virginia Tech, the university at the center of the case, had changed its policy.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time that a high-level court very explicitly extended the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to younger adults.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2024

” Since the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Similar proposals that also reference the Meet Baby Olivia video have been introduced in Kentucky, West Virginia, North Dakota, Missouri, and Iowa.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Delaware's Supreme Court on Monday overturned a 2022 Chancery Court order that dismissal of federal opioid-related damage claims against AmerisourceBergen in West Virginia justified scuttling a multibillion-dollar stockholder derivative lawsuit, finding the decision "inconsistent" with the court's rules for derivative actions and evidence.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2023

The plaintiffs are a group of Republican-led states, including Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming. the court concluded that the states did not have standing to challenge the order because their injuries flow from “potential future regulations.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Here’s the Friday morning read: A Louisiana man whose conviction was overturned in a Supreme Court ruling against split juries is found not guilty at new trial (Corky Siemaszko, NBC News) Outside groups take a first stab at a Supreme Court ethics code (Nina Totenberg, NPR) West Virginia to ask US Supreme Court to allow transgender athlete ban (Andrew (..)

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled on September 3, 2021. Striking a blow to patent applicants seeking to assert inventorship by artificial intelligence ("AI") systems, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2022

In the last opinion of the term, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a group of Republican-led states and coal companies to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions system-wide. EPA , and what it means for the future of climate regulation.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

After the Amendment took effect on January 1, 2018, Circuit City, a US chain of electronics retail stores, refused to pay the increased fees and brought suit in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that the 2017 Amendment, which creates nonuniform bankruptcy laws, was unconstitutional.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

” Also on Wednesday, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that it would not block Trump from appearing on its 2024 primary ballot. Last week, a West Virginia district court also dismissed a lawsuit seeking to ban Trump from the next primary ballot. I felt they read the Constitution.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2021

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that it was unconstitutional to sentence people with intellectual disabilities to death. This ruling provides a three-step test to determine whether defendants are intellectually disabled, which attorneys and experts say Johnson meets.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2023

The brief also cites the recent case of West Virginia v. The Secretary of Education has extended the pause on federal student loan payments until 60 days after the Supreme Court ruling, which is due at the end of June. The post DOJ files brief in support of Biden student loan forgiveness plan appeared first on JURIST - News.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Twentieth century uprisings for expanded prison rights — what Driver and Kaufman call the “prisoners’ rights revolution” — ended in the late 1980s, with the Supreme Court ruling Turner vs. Safley. Incarcerated people have long contested penal policies, from stipulations on prayer to codes dictating beard length.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Nine years after Brown’s trial, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Relying on Atkins, Brown went back to state court, seeking to overturn his death sentence.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Virginia , a 2002 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment forbids executing people with intellectual disabilities. Lower courts rejected those arguments, and his attorneys asked the justices on Monday to intervene.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v. Virginia that it is unconstitutional to execute someone who is mentally disabled. After receiving his death sentence, Bourgeois sought a ruling from a federal court in Texas that he was intellectually disabled and thus barred from execution. His appeal was unsuccessful.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

It was in response to the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. In that case, the court ruled that the government could take someone’s property for private economic development under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Claus, saying it qualified as a “public use.” New London.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Abbott case arose from a long-running multidistrict litigation against the chemical company DuPont by people who allege that they were injured by the company’s release of a chemical known as C-8, used in the production of Teflon, into the air, landfills, and river near its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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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. Nunes did not ask for such a correction under California law because he filed in Virginia. It was a cascading deconstruction of the lawsuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And depending on exactly how the justices rule, their decision could limit the power of federal agencies more broadly. The dispute at the center of West Virginia v. Two coal-mining companies and 20 Republican-led states, including West Virginia and North Dakota, asked the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. .

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. The man, Bruce Boynton, appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1960, the court issued its landmark decision in Boynton v. In June, the court ruled in R.G. &

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 21, 2021

On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Caniglia v. Although the district court ruled that the government must have reasonable suspicion that a device contains digital contraband because of the privacy concerns of electronic searches, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed. West Virginia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The court did not add any new cases to its merits docket, but Tuesday’s list of orders featured several notable denials of review – including in a pair of cases that the justices have been considering since late September.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

This means that the court must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant meant to harm the individual before being provoked or engaging in a mutually combated altercation. Courts have struggled to define “initial aggression” since at least 1925 when, in Scott v. Similarly, in People v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416,

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The doctrine, created by a 1982 Supreme Court ruling meant to protect government employees from frivolous lawsuits, is frequently used by police and other law enforcement officials to head off lawsuits over excessive use of force or misconduct. As the legal maxim says: justice delayed is justice denied.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Virginia and her dissent in Ledbetter v. Spotty knowledge of case law We were eager to see how well ChatGPT would explain Supreme Court rulings, since that’s such a big part of what we do at SCOTUSblog. Board of Education (Question #20), the bot returned bare-bones but perfectly adequate summaries of how the court ruled.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a magnet school in the Virginia D.C. The federal district court in Virginia agreed with the challengers and ordered TJ to stop using the new admissions policy. The most prominent of this week’s relists, Coalition for TJ v. A panel of the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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