JURIST

MAY 26, 2021

A US federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s anti-BDS law, which prohibits state contractors from boycotting Israel, violates the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled in favor of Martin, and found that O.C.G.A. § 50-5-85 was constitutional.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A New York appeals court ruled that a New York City law granting non-citizens the power to vote was unconstitutional. It was estimated that the law would allow more than 800,000 non-citizens the ability to vote in New York City local elections, prior to the court’s Wednesday ruling. The municipal legislation, Int.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Guaidó appointed the Guaidó Board as an ad hoc board of the Central Bank under a “transition statute” passed by the Venezuelan National Assembly. The Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice has held the transition statute null and void. The Maduro Board sued the Bank of England in May 2020 to release the gold reserves.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The court also declined to vacate BLM’s leasing decisions and instead enjoined BLM from issuing drilling permits for the leases while it responds to the court’s decision. Trade Groups Proceeding with Narrower Challenge to 2016 Refrigerant Management Rule; NRDC and States Challenge 2020 Rescission of Portion of Rule.

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JURIST

JULY 25, 2023

However, Tigar dismissed this argument, writing, “[T]he agencies were preparing for the end of Title 42 well before it was announced, such that they could have issued the Notice with sufficient time to grant a longer comment period and still have had the Rule in place when Title 42 expired.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday stayed an order from the US District Court for the District of Columbia blocking Title 42, a health policy used to deny migrants and asylum-seekers at the US border. The plaintiffs argue that Title 42 does not authorize deportation.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2023

Even beyond the cited statutes, users cite a legal concept known as the foreign affairs doctrine , in which the US Constitution is understood to vest the power to administer foreign affairs solely with the federal government. .” Notably, the users point out that these powers are placed with the federal government, not Montana.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 20, 2022

Where plaintiffs alleged that “church entities were negligent regarding the sexual abuse of minors” by a clergyman, and the allegations included claims of fraudulent concealment through an investigation that was actually a “whitewash,” dismissal based on the statute of limitations was reversed. Continue reading.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The decision represents the first 5-to-4 split in a case argued during the Court’s 2020-21 term. In support, justice Sotomayor emphasized that the statute in Your Home did not implicate the presumption in favor of judicial review and was narrower than §231g, which simply incorporates §355(f ) into the RRA. Legal Background.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Share Alaska Native corporations are eligible for about $500 million in COVID-19 relief money that Congress earmarked for Native American tribes, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The case required the court to decide whether Alaska Native corporations are “Indian tribes” for the purpose of the 2020 CARES Act.

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The Researching Paralegal

MARCH 29, 2022

Do not forget your state or national bar journal, especially to help you keep up with the lastest changes to statutes and case law, as well as court rule changes! You can also find great information at your local or state paralegal organization and its newsletter. As always, if I can give you a hand, please give a shout!

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2021

But six years after his deportation, the Supreme Court ruled in Leocal v. Ashcroft that, under the relevant federal statute, DUI convictions like Palomar-Santiago’s are not aggravated felonies. The direct implications of the court’s ruling are likely quite narrow.

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Day on Torts

MAY 18, 2022

Plaintiff asserted various claims against defendants, including breach of contract, fraud, intentional misrepresentation, and negligence, all of which the trial court dismissed as untimely pursuant to the three-year statute of limitations applicable to claims of injuries to real property. In Simpkins v. John Maher Builders, Inc. ,

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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 million, but the group contended that its conduct was protected by the First Amendment.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The libel defendants filed motions to dismiss pursuant to the TPPA, which the trial court granted on December 10, 2020. The trial court then entered an order awarding some attorneys’ fees on March 5, 2021, then due to some late filing, entered another order regarding attorneys’ fees on June 24, 2021. quoting Nandigam ).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Share In the final argument scheduled for its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s historic bid for criminal immunity. The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

In July 2019, Georgia Southern University (“GSU”) invited Martin to speak at the 2020 International Critical Media Literary Conference. 50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. O.C.G.A. §

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the House of Representatives may vote by proxy, when the statute of limitations begins for state prisoners seeking DNA testing, a football coach’s post-game prayer and Texas’ new anti-abortion law. In Skinner v.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2021

Working on the presumption that the “ Legislature intends for ameliorative enactments to apply as broadly as is constitutionally permis sible,” the Supreme Court i n People v. The court ruled similarly last year in People v. McKenzie (2020) 9 Cal.5th

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Patently O

MARCH 15, 2023

The statute provides a two-step IPR process: Step 1 is the institution decision by the Director under § 314(b); Step 2 is the trial and final written decision by the PTAB. At least two prerequisites assist the Director in deciding to grant review: [1] a reasonable likelihood that the petitioner would prevail in 35 U.S.C. § 315(b). . §

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

We recently discussed a federal court upholding the Georgia election law as constitutional, rejecting challenges based on voter suppression by a group associated with Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Now, the Delaware Supreme Court has rejected a Democratic universal mail-in voting law as unconstitutional.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Alternatively, if the Patent Act requires inventor(s) must be human, are AI-created inventions not patentable at all under the current statute? In 2020, the USPTO refused to vacate the Notice of Missing Parts, pointing to the Patent Act’s text as support that the inventor must be a natural person. Thaler, assignee, filed U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. 166-172 (available here ) Brand, Ronald A. 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Thus, starting in 1988 (when, as part of broader reforms to the court’s docket, Congress eliminated the ability to directly appeal to the Supreme Court district court decisions striking down state or federal statutes), the practice became all but moribund.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court reviews very few cases in a given year. In the year ending June 30, 2020 (the last period for which information is publicly available) the High Court was asked to accept review in 569 cases. Because the trial court properly interpreted the statute, we affirm the trial court’s decision.

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Plaintiff’s counsel sent pre-suit notice to all potential defendants on July 3, 2020, and those notices included medical release forms that were allegedly HIPAA complaint pursuant to Tenn. 29, 2022), plaintiff alleged that he was injured by defendants’ medical negligence on July 5, 2019. Code Ann. § 29-26-121(a)(2)(E).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

6, 2021, riot at the Capitol could obtain White House documents related to illegal attempts to overturn the 2020 election. We require even low-level executive employees to abide by a rigorous code of ethics,” he said, and the highest court should not be held to less. Thomas would become a major topic of the hearing. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.,

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 13, 2022

Corpus linguistics is a tool used to identify the original public meaning of words – no small thing when the outcome of a case often hinges on the meaning of a single word in a statute or the Constitution. 2020); Health Freedom Def. These examples underscore corpus linguistics’ utility in ascertaining the meaning of statutes.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 21, 2022

The state passed the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (“CEEFPA”), [1] allowing tenants to self-certify that they suffered from hardship because of the pandemic. [2] In Manhattan, the Housing Court took a more direct approach to the ERAP issue when applying a textualist review of the law. [17]

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot and killed two people during a 2020 protest in Kenosha, WI., Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. Photo by janinsanfran via Flickr Photo by PROjaninsanfran via Flickr.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 6, 2022

In May 2020, defendant filed a Rule 60.02(3) The trial court ultimately granted defendant’s motion and found that the judgment was void, which the Court of Appeals affirmed. While the Court agreed with plaintiff that Tenn. 3) motion seeking relief from the judgment on the grounds that it was void. In Turner v.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 4, 2023

79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. 166-172 (available here ) Brand, Ronald A. 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 24, 2021

The ruling stayed proceedings commenced by Central Santa Lucía L.C., The court ruled that although the defendant was a Spanish legal entity, the basis of the claim entirely depended on a declaration that the nationalization of the land formerly owned by the claimants’ predecessors in Cuba had been contrary to international law.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

„Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters: Explanatory Report“, as approved by the HCCH on 22 September 2020 (available here). Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. Beaumont, Paul.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 20, 2022

„Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters: Explanatory Report“, as approved by the HCCH on 22 September 2020 (available here). Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. Badr, Yehya Ibrahim.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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