SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a pair of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites. Two trade groups representing social media platforms went to federal court to challenge the laws. Both laws were passed in the wake of the Jan.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected challenges to Texas’s new voting restrictions in three separate 2-1 decisions on Wednesday. Texas Secretary of State , challenged the constitutionality of the state’s system for verifying signatures on mail-in ballots. The second case, Lewis v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, keeping intact the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. The Texas Legislature was well aware of this binding precedent. The law became effective midnight on Tuesday.

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HowAppealing

JULY 16, 2021

“New Texas Abortion Statute Raises Cutting-Edge Questions Not Just About Abortion but About the Relationship Between State and Federal Courts”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“Texas Doctor Who Violated Abortion Law Wins Dismissal of Suit; Suit was filed under law allowing private policing of statute; San Antonio doctor wrote op-ed detailing his violation of law”: Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg News has this report. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the case of a Texas death-row inmate seeking DNA testing for evidence that he believes will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit never reached the merits of Reed’s claim. Justice Samuel Alito was more skeptical.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

“State judge declares Texas abortion law unconstitutional — but does not stop it from being enforced; The fate of the statute remains uncertain; An appeal to the ruling is already underway, and an opinion on the law from the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

A Texas man Friday sued three women who allegedly aided his ex-wife by providing her with “illegally obtained abortion pills” without his knowledge. Silva is represented by the former Solicitor General of Texas, Jonathan F. Therefore, the court does not have any license to put aside Texas’ abortion laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , the Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a Texas court and held that a military veteran could proceed with a lawsuit against his former employer, the Texas Department of Public Safety. A Texas court agreed and dismissed Torres’ suit. Share In Torres v.

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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. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “ Appeals court reinstates Texas’s six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted.”

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Texas’s Abortion Law Blunder: The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, but the statute won’t survive scrutiny on the merits.” ” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a highly controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB8) , which bans all abortions after six weeks and authorizes citizens to report individuals who assist or intend to assist people seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

But earlier this year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened up a new battleground: the home. A few days later, the governor of Texas ordered the state’s Child Protective Services (CPS) to investigate families whose children are in transgender therapy. The attorney general then appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Texas resolves a longstanding dispute about the ability of Texas to control gambling on the lands of two of the Native American tribes that reside there. The answer the court gave was a stern rebuke, vitiating the plenary control that lower-court decisions had granted the state for more than a quarter of a century.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. Greg Abbott signed the Texas law, known as S.B. 8 , on May 19.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law provision Friday that allowed police to draw blood from unconscious drivers and test it for alcohol content without a warrant. Many courts have addressed the issue of taking blood samples from drivers without consent, including Texas and Nevada.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Another Texas inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, who was set to be executed on Oct. Supreme Court’s upcoming review of similar religious freedom issues made by another inmate, John Henry Ramirez, whose execution the high court delayed last week, will impact Gutierrez’s case. Ramirez made similar claims when he was granted a stay.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

A majority for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia Tech’s bias reporting policies do not violate free speech principles protected by the First Amendment, upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2021

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal by a group of oil companies challenging a California state court ruling permitting two California cities to sue for damages related to climate change, meaning the case will be heard in state court.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Texas presents yet another installment in the decades-long conflict between state gambling regulators and Native American tribes. The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. Share Tuesday’s argument in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Rodney Reedy, a Black death row inmate seeking post-conviction DNA evidence to prove his innocence, reports Ariane de Vogue for CNN. How the Supreme Court rules could impact other death row inmates across the country seeking to test new evidence.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A US Circuit Court Thursday declared the law preventing those subject to a domestic violence restraining order from owning a gun, unconstitutional. Rahimi , the US Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit found that the law was an unconstitutional restraint on Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Thursday to disturb a federal statute governing the adoption and foster proceedings for Indigenous children in the US. The court issued three findings in its Thursday decision. The court issued three findings in its Thursday decision.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Texas for infringing two patents covering pre-natal genetic tests. So, venue was proper under the narrow venue statute for patent cases, Section 1400(b). So, venue was proper under the narrow venue statute for patent cases, Section 1400(b). Ravgen sued Quest in W.D. Quoting Juniper. Transfer ordered.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders. Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. The ruling has since been appealed to the 5th Circuit Court. But now, the U.S. He did this based on a 2022 U.S.

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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. Paxton and Moody v.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. In response to COVID-19, the CDC ordered a nationwide moratorium on residential evictions last fall.

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Mondaq

APRIL 25, 2022

In a recently issued taxpayer-favorable opinion, the Texas Supreme Court overturned the court of appeals' decision holding that the state's performance-based sourcing statute for service receipts.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that outlawed abortions based on certain reasons, such as a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome or the race or gender of the fetus. The court also blocked the state’s six-week abortion ban. It is, in fact, just the opposite.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block the execution of Tracy Beatty, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of his mother. Beatty, 61, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday evening. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld that ruling. Beatty’s lawyers relied on 18 U.S.C.

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OilandGasLawyer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in December in Concho Resources v. The trial court sided with Samson’s position, in effect holding that the 1927 deed was limited to 147 acres. The Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi reversed, holding that the deed conveyed all of the land north and west of the road.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. David Goodman, The New York Times) A 1989 statute prevents Supreme Court justices from accepting honoraria.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Nieves v. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, how closely aligned evidence must be to satisfy that exception.

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At the Lectern

JULY 12, 2021

. “It” being today’s Supreme Court’s opinion in Shalabi v. First, the court resolves a statute of limitations issue. ” Thus, the plaintiff’s lawsuit was brought within the applicable two-year statute of limitations when he filed suit on his 20th birthday. .”

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