At the Lectern

JANUARY 19, 2024

At around the mid-point of its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court is on a pace to issue an historically low 38 or 39 opinions for the period. But Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero is hopeful output will increase over the second half so that the court will exceed current projections.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On February 21, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Because the claims were based on Pennsylvania statutes, it argued, they were barred by the choice-of-law clause. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. The Third Circuit ruled in favor of Raiders.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found in favor of Spain, again applying Spanish law. It is important to note that both the district judge and the court of appeals determined the application of Spanish law because they were applying federal choice of law rules.

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Patently O

MARCH 18, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court ruling ordering the correction of inventorship for U.S. ”) Patent law does not have a specific statute of limitations associated with claims to correct inventorship. Tube-Mac Indus., Campbell , No. 2022-2170 (Fed.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The recent judgment of the High Court of Bahrain (a first instance court in the Bahraini judicial system ) in the Case No. 2/13276/2023/02 of 17 January 2024 is nothing but another example of this entrenched practice that can be observed in the vast majority of countries in the region. 5/11341/2023/02 of 4 January 2024 ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. The Court also ordered EPA to pay Thomas’s court costs. Zepeda , No.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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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 court’s answer will determine not only whether Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., before U.S. In the landmark Marbury v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Time was of the essence, Mountain Valley Pipeline told the court, because the company has only “three months to complete the Pipeline before winter weather sets in and precludes significant construction tasks until the spring of 2024.” This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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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. The state has asked the justices to issue their decision by January so that it can have a map ready in time for the 2024 elections.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Ritter went to state court to challenge that decision. A state appeals court ruled that, under state law, the 257 undated ballots could not be counted. The federal district court ruled that the voters did not have the right to bring a lawsuit to enforce the materiality requirement, but the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. Code § 22-1322 – Incitement to Riot).

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