JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

Norwegian authorities criminally charged 20 Indigenous Saami activists and supporters on Friday for blocking access to multiple government buildings in protest over the continued operation of wind turbines in the Fosen region. Local news outlet VG alleged that the group is charged with not paying fines related to the protests.

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MARCH 20, 2024

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the case Gonzalez v. Trevino , which concerns the arrest of a Castle Hills, Texas councilwoman who argues that she was arrested in retaliation for her critical speech about the city’s government. Attorney Anya A. Attorney Lisa S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

And the First Amendment generally also protects an individual from being required by the government to voice a particular message. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit agreed that the websites that Smith wants to create are speech. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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MARCH 15, 2022

He also asked the litigants to provide further submissions on the extent of the government’s duty of care. While finding for Ley, the court did reject a submission from her lawyers that some of the court’s previous findings were incorrect. Australia has been especially hard hit by rising temperatures.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

While the Joe Biden administration appeals a Texas court ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is unlawful, the decision is blocking more than 80,000 new applications from young adults who were brought to the United States illegally as children and are seeking protection under the program, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

In applying for the expungement of the new evidence, a government attorney argued—and the court accepted—that accepting new evidence of non-compliance is unfair and prejudicial after the government respondents already refuted or explained previous examples provided by the applicants.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2023

” However, the Ugandan Attorneys General Office countered his claim. The court rejected this idea. In their decision, the court ruled the wording violated article 28 in its failure to provide notice. Conversely, the government asserted its right to limit freedom of speech with article 43 of the constitution.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Scott Moe, Premier of the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan, announced on Thursday that his government will use the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ‘ so-called “notwithstanding clause” to bypass a court ruling that suspended the province’s naming and pronoun policy for students.

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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2024

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Yonas Fikre’s challenge to his previous placement on the No Fly List can proceed, rejecting the government’s claim that his removal from the list rendered the lawsuit void.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court ruled that states could only convict defendants of serious offenses with a unanimous jury verdict. The Puerto Rico Supreme Court, however, disagreed, ruling that Ramos applied to both. Law firm asks justices to consider the scope of attorney-client privilege for dual-purpose documents.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Davis attributed the rise to social media and politicization, telling Reuters: The threat environment right now that is causing me concern is when people disagree with the judicial process or the government, and that turns into those verbal attacks. I did not receive any order from the Attorney General to avoid any specific arrest.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2024

In Nollan , the court created an “essential nexus” test, which required there be an “essential nexus between a legitimate state interest and the permit condition imposed by the government.” ” They therefore cautioned the court against that. ” They therefore cautioned the court against that.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Kentucky’s attorney general should have been allowed to intervene to defend a state law restricting abortion after another state official declined to do so – even when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit had already struck down the law.

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JUNE 23, 2023

The second was whether federal immigration laws require the federal government to detain noncitizens who have committed certain crimes after their release from prison and to keep in custody noncitizens who are subject to final deportation orders. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“ Travis County judges can’t hear appeals from migrants arrested under Texas border security push, court rules ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2022

In a narrow but unanimous ruling , the justices held that a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not trump the “state secrets” privilege, a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security. On Thursday, in United States v.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

The Supreme Court reversed, with the majority holding that California’s disclosure requirement is facially invalid because it burdens donors’ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an important government interest. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the majority. United States v. Stevens , 559 U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The survivors and families of the victims joined in a lawsuit against the US government, alleging negligence under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the government’s failure to prevent Kelley from purchasing a firearm despite his prior felony convictions.

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JURIST

JULY 27, 2023

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, on Wednesday, rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request to halt his prosecution in a case regarding wealth concealment after selling state gifts. Khan’s attorney dismissed the allegations insulating that the justices are “rushing” the case.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Thailand’s attorney general’s office announced that it is still considering prosecuting former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra over an alleged insult to the monarchy, an official said on Tuesday. This comes just as Shinawatra is considered for release under parole.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The DOJ asked the court to consider whether Judge Aileen Cannon was correct to establish the special master review and block the department from utilising the lawfully seized records in its investigation against Trump. The Eleventh Circuit found that these actions were outside of Cannon’s jurisdiction and power.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2021

A divided federal appeals court held the federal government could not restrict federally licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to law-abiding citizens under 21 years old, reports the Wall Street Journal. The government is expected to appeal this ruling. This 2-1 decision Tuesday by the Richmond, Va.-based

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

.” Mariah Timms of The Wall Street Journal reports that “ Appeals Court Curbs Voting Lawsuits Claiming Discrimination; If it stands, the 2-1 decision would mark a sea change in the law.” ” Fredreka Schouten of CNN reports that “ Appeals court strikes down key tool used to enforce Voting Rights Act.”

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2024

According to Argentina human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo , officers abducted and systematically tortured roughly 30,000 people suspected of opposing the military government in clandestine detention centers during the Dirty War. Argentina has made some progress in the protection of the LGBTQ+ rights.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday affirmed a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana blocking the White House’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The ruling results from a 2-1 decision from the three-judge panel.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Nigerian press freedom group Media Rights Agenda (MRA) filed the lawsuit at the heart of the February 16 ruling in October 2021 against Nigeria’s federal government. MRA claimed that Nigerian media professionals’ rights to life and freedom of expression were repeatedly violated by the government.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed on Thursday a lower court ruling which would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to encourage social media platforms to remove content it considers misleading. Nor can it threaten to punish the media or other intermediaries for disseminating disfavored speech.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In a 92-page court ruling, Judge K. However, Alice Wang, a staff attorney for the Center of Reproductive Rights said in a press release, “Forcing medical providers to give patients government-scripted misinformation violates the state constitution and medical ethics.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City confirmed the death of transgender woman activist and politician Samantha Gómez Fonseca on Monday from gunshot wounds. also appealed to securing freedom and justice for the community and criticized the government for its inaction on this issue.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

Montana Supreme Court Justices Jim Rice and Dirk Sandefur noted that they would have granted the state’s motion to block the August ruling. This ruling favored a group of youth plaintiffs who alleged that the state failed to protect them and future generations from the harmful effects of climate change.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2021

Corey Johnson, who is set to be executed by the federal government on January 14, filed Friday for a stay of execution with the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. But courts have never heard the full scope of evidence uncovered by his current legal team.

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MARCH 4, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron can defend the state’s controversial law restriction abortion. At that time, Health Secretary Eric Friedlander, a Democrat, declined to seek review of the appeals court’s decision.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2024

The court’s written opinion emphasized that this case poses a question about “the propriety of universal injunctive relief, a question of great significance that has needed the Court’s attention for some time.” The Supreme Court ruled this was an overstep of the lower court’s authority.

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JURIST

JULY 10, 2023

Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, writing for the majority, opined that the district court that granted the original injunction had exceeded its scope, saying, “A court order that goes beyond the injuries of a particular plaintiff to enjoin government action against nonparties exceeds the norms of judicial power.”

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At the Lectern

MAY 3, 2023

Documents that Governor Gavin Newsom lodged under seal in support of a request for Supreme Court permission to commute Elaine Wong ’s life without parole sentence will likely be made available to the public, at least in part. However, the record from Brown’s request was partially unsealed in 2021.

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MAY 3, 2022

No one has worked harder, worked longer or had more success at the cause of making government information accessible to the public than Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org. On this episode of LawNext, Malamud joins me to recap some of the significant milestones of his more-than 30-years of battling government bureaucracies.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez.

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