JURIST
JULY 21, 2022
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday held that Georgia’s abortion law can take effect immediately. The Georgia law bans abortions when fetal cardiac activity is detected, as early as six weeks. A US federal district court previously blocked the law from going into effect in 2020.
JURIST
APRIL 25, 2022
.” Kennedy brought the case to the district court claiming the school district violated his First Amendment right of free speech. The district court ruled in favor of the that the school district. Kennedy appealed the district court decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the decision.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 28, 2023
The Hope case involved a Texas inmate who at the time of the Fifth Circuit decision had spent 27 years in solitary confinement in that state’s penal system—a system that leads the nation in holding people in solitary confinement for the longest periods of time. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Cortada is a longtime Floridian who received his law degree from the University of Miami and is now a professor at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History; his work combines his legal training with his artistic vision of how each Supreme Court decision shaped the nation. Florida , a companion case to Gregg v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of claims by Allco Finance Limited (Allco) that federal law preempted Connecticut’s renewable energy solicitations and that Connecticut’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program violated the dormant Commerce Clause. 47641-0-II (Wash. June 20, 2017). 1:17 -cv-01208-BAH (D.D.C.,
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 15, 2021
Hemphill asks the court to decide whether a defendant can similarly “open the door” to rebuttal evidence that was hearsay, and thus was previously inadmissible under the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a criminal defendant’s right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”. 357 revolver with him at the fight, not a 9-millimeter.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2024
The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declined Tuesday to rehear with the full Eighth Circuit panel of judges a prior appeals court decision curtailing private organizations’ ability to sue under section two of the Voting Rights Act for alleged racial gerrymandering in redistricting decisions.
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