JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Smith was tried in Florida, but he argued that the venue was improper because he lives in Alabama. Those cases include a First Amendment challenge to an immigration law, a procedural question about IRS records requests, a challenge to New York criminal sentencing laws and a question about arbitration proceedings.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Underwood , the Supreme Court invalidated a similar provision of the Alabama constitution that disenfranchised people convicted of crimes “involving moral turpitude.” Based on that denial, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals vacated her death sentence and sent the case back to the trial court. They note that in Hunter v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. City and County of San Francisco, California : The case revolves around a legal challenge to a federal immigration rule. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. Supreme Court recently returned to the bench for its February sitting.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Pardons are also the only state relief mechanism in America recognized by federal immigration law that would allow “a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony to avoid mandatory deportation and remove the conviction-related bar to citizenship.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nancy Williams and others brought suit under Section 1983 in Alabama state court, complaining about delays in the processing of unemployment benefits. Washington presents a similarly discrete issue about claims brought in state court under 42 U.S.C. Now on to the capital cases docket. The Supreme Court held in Atkins v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

HHS stopped placements of unaccompanied minors to the Alabama ZIP code that includes Enterprise in early June and issued a similar order for Woodburn. Those cities were flagged as suspicious because HHS had released dozens of children to sponsors in each location, in some cases to the same individual.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. Since 1986, bankruptcy cases in Alabama or North Carolina have been administered by trustees appointed by the judicial branch, while all other cases have been administered by the U.S. Garland and Garland v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent bills proposed in Florida and California on immigration and guns. DeSantis’s ‘tongue in cheek’ immigration relocation law. The Biden administration has been moving thousands of immigrants around the country by plane and bus. Here is the column: California Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The inn’s owner, Robert Boule, asked Egbert to leave; when Egbert declined to do so, Egbert pushed Boule to the ground and asked the Turkish guest about his (legal) immigration status. The question came to the court in April in the case of Xiulu Ruan, an Alabama doctor who specialized in pain management.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

She went to court filed a lawsuit in federal court in Alabama against Boehringer Inhelheim Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Zantac, and against Walgreens, which sold the drug, alleging that Zantac caused her cancer. KPFF Investment, Inc. Lewis County, Kentucky v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Legal Services Alabama, Inc. , 1252(a)(2)(D) bars review of an asserted question of law where a noncitizen has challenged the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of the statutory extreme hardship standard found at 8 U.S.C. CVSG: 5/18/2023 (relisted after the June 22 conference) Davis v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

Singh (consolidated for one hour of oral argument), in which the justices will consider notice requirements in immigration cases; McElrath v. In 1985, the challengers note, the Supreme Court struck down a similar provision in the Alabama constitution that had been enacted to disenfranchise African Americans. Garland and Garland v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. It is the same basis that Democrats used to successfully challenge some Trump immigration policy changes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Whether it is the circumvention of Congress or launching unilateral wars, presidents dance to their own tune to the gleeful applause of their supporters. Take the series of losses recently by the Biden Administration in areas like immigration. In its 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born If the court had ordered that Jackson Giles and his 5,000 co-plaintiffs be registered as voters, it’s likely that, as Holmes feared, many Alabama officials would have defied the ruling. born children.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

City and County of San Francisco, California , involving an attempt by 14 states to intervene to defend the Trump administration’s controversial “public charge” immigration rule after the Biden administration declined to defend it in court. relisted after the Sept. 27 conference). Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas , 20-493.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. In Juliana v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. On it, Harpster has openly espoused misogynistic, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views. He doesn’t want a legal precedent prohibiting the admission of his research.”

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