The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

In Texas , a 26-year-old southern Texas woman was indicted in March following an alleged “self-induced abortion.” And the police, who would carry out the orders of their state legislatures and executive branches and the individual decrees of prosecutors, would be complicit in this endeavor. Already in the U.S. Career Suicide?

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Texas ranks 29th in overall dependency on the gun industry, according to the Wallethub study. Texas ranks 29th in overall dependency on the gun industry, according to the Wallethub study. Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting released estimates on Jun 1, 2022 that gun sales as of May 2022 had decreased by 12.6

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a recently enacted Texas law , which gives state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and deport people who illegally cross the US-Mexico border. ” The post ACLU challenges new Texas law criminalizing illegal entry from abroad appeared first on JURIST - News. .”

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Customs & International Trade Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Jose Ernesto Garcia (‘‘Garcia’’) was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Luis Carlos Quintana-Saenz (‘‘Quintana-Saenz’’) was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. United States Department of Commerce (DOC). travel and tourism industry.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from enforcing a directive to investigate families of transgender youth and the medical professionals who treat them.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2024

Last June, a federal district judge in Fort Worth, Texas, barred the ATF from enforcing the rule anywhere in the United States. It upheld O’Connor’s decision, concluding that the rule “flouts clear statutory text and exceeds the legislatively-imposed limits on agency authority in the name of public policy.” When the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of controversial laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies like Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) control content posted on their sites. The Texas law, known as H.B. The Florida law, known as S.B.

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OilandGasLawyer

JANUARY 24, 2021

Article from Texas Tribune, by Erin Douglas, republished with permission: Deep underneath the ground, fluids travel down and shoot through ancient shale formations, fracturing rock and starting the flow of oil — the essential part of hydraulic fracturing technology that’s transformed America’s oil industry. But a new U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Exxon Sought to Block New York Attorney General Investigation in Texas Federal Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

citizen Sandra Munoz’s spouse a visa was subject to judicial review and held that the agency had failed to justify the decision. Texas is also on the court’s capital docket. Texas mandate that courts deem the standard of “significantly subaverage intellectual functioning” for determining intellectual disability in Atkins v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2022

Texas , 21-5050. rescheduled before the Dec. 14, Jan 21, Feb. 18 and Feb. 25 conferences; relisted after the March 4 conference). Walmart Stores East, L.P. , Bruce Church, Inc. relisted after the Jan. 25 and March 4 conferences). relisted after the Jan. 25 and March 4 conferences). Commissioner of Internal Revenue , 21-379. 10 and Jan.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The court was not persuaded by the plaintiff’s argument that NOAA’s real reason for withholding the information was fear of “agency embarrassment” and “painting the agency in a negative light.” In October, the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. Circuit Vacated EPA’s Administrative Stay of Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities. A divided D.C. State Air Resources Board , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Issues : (1) Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one’s position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U.S.C. (relisted after the June 23 conference). United States , 21-1161. relisted after the June 2, June 9, June 16 and June 23 conferences). Hochul , 21-1143.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Because the Missouri legislature believes that some federal laws regulating firearms are unconstitutional, he explained, it barred state and local law enforcement agencies from helping federal officials to enforce those laws. The state argued that the district court’s order striking down the law is flawed in two different ways.

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The Crime Report

MAY 21, 2021

The Texas Legislature has passed a bill that would make it illegal for law enforcement agencies to authorize reality television crews to film officers on duty, reports The New York Times.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For 22 years up until his death, Raymond Joseph Billeaud served as a police officer with the Supreme Court Police, the federal law enforcement agency charged with protecting the court and the justices. They brought a direct challenge to the Texas law that banned abortion at the time, and they litigated it all the way to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Harper , an election case from North Carolina in which the justices will weigh in on the “independent state legislature” theory, the idea that state legislatures have the sole power under the Constitution to regulate federal elections, without interference from state courts. The highest-profile petition granted on Thursday was Moore v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the same rulemaking. The federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied a steel mill owner’s motion for a preliminary injunction barring construction of a gas pipeline that will cross the plaintiff’s property. In October 2017, the D.C. Wheeler , No. 20-1363 (D.C. filed Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Share In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress consolidated the task of enforcing federal consumer finance laws into one agency. After a federal district court in Texas upheld the rule, the challengers appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Agency power and “major questions”. Despite having the opportunity to overrule the Chevron doctrine , which instructs courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of federal law, the court declined to do so. An abortion prelude. The fall of Roe.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

The coal company’s petition presented the question of whether Section 111(d) “grants the EPA authority not only to impose standards based on technology and methods that can be applied at and achieved by that existing source, but also allows the agency to develop industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes.” Seven weeks after the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

In states like Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana, many officers are worried. Police concerns comes as gun violence is on the rise throughout the country and as law enforcement agencies struggle on how to manage this spike. This push has put police officers at odds with Republican lawmakers who usually trumpet support for law enforcement.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

“We have to shift the responsibilities that we currently give to police away from them and, alongside that, build up the network of community based services and government agencies so that we still have a robust response mechanism, but one that is a principally non-law enforcement response mechanism,” he told The Crime Report.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon granted a request from Idaho and the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to temporarily put on hold a ruling by a federal district court that would require emergency rooms in the state to provide abortions to pregnant women in an emergency. Instead, U.S. But earlier this week, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Agency , the Supreme Court formally announced its embrace of the MQD, holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have authority to issue a greenhouse gas emissions rule that shifted electricity generation away from coal. Env’t Prot. As Justice Kagan points out in her Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Share The court will hear oral argument next term in a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted in the wake of the 2020 census. The justices added Alexander v. and two cases involving the Armed Career Criminal Act. Relying on 5 U.S.C. In September 2022, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Jackson then snagged a highly sought-after spot as an associate at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a Washington litigation boutique that later merged with Baker Botts, a Texas-based firm. Jackson left Goodwin Procter in 2002 to become an associate at the firm then known as the Feinberg Group, now known as Feinberg Rozen.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

To keep Dobbs company, the court also relisted an abortion case out of Texas, Planned Parenthood Center for Choice v. The Texas governor, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, issued an executive order that banned many abortions, purportedly to preserve personal protective equipment and hospital capacity. — how about Texas v.

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