JURIST
APRIL 9, 2024
Kristin Mayes/Hazelrigg , was initiated in 1971, two years before the US Supreme Court determined abortion access was a constitutional right in Roe v. The focus is on a law from 1864, established shortly after Arizona was designated as a US territory by the Senate and decades before it attained statehood. The 2022 ruling Dobbs v.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 23, 2022
Share Two men on Arizona’s death row are not entitled to present new evidence in federal court to support their arguments that their trial lawyers bungled their cases, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-3 decision. In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court sided with Arizona. “[O]nly
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Constitutional Law Reporter
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Cruz v. University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 9, 2021
As Roberts put it, what should the court do in a situation where “the plain language” of a statute “seems to require one result,” while “the plainly logical meaning of a subsequent precedent” seems to require the opposite? The question raised in Shinn v. Kavanaugh shot back, “Assuming we don’t do that, what’s your next answer?”.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
On Friday, the justices agreed to decide whether the Nollan / Dolan test applies to a California man’s challenge to a development fee, or whether – as a California appeals court ruled – the fee is instead immune from such review because it was authorized by legislation. A federal appeals court ruled that Fikre’s case was not moot.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
In both cases, the targets of agency proceedings want to challenge the legitimacy of those proceedings right away in federal court, rather than having to await the outcomes of long-running administrative processes before getting their day in court. The general federal jurisdiction statute ( 28 U.S.C.
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. McCarthy v.
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