Constitutional Law Court Decisions Laws Litigating 
Constitutional Law Reporter
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. Facts of the Cases The two cases before the Court, Moody v.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 1, 2023
According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. 1983 procedural due process claim begins to run at the end of the state-court litigation. Reed then sued in federal court under 42 U.S.C.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 1, 2023
In reaching its decision, the Court noted the important distinction between “the classes of cases a court may entertain (subject-matter jurisdiction)” and “nonjurisdictional claim-processing rules, which seek to promote the orderly progress of litigation by requiring that the parties take certain procedural steps at certain specified times.”
Constitutional Law Reporter
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote on behalf of the Court. In reaching its decision, the Court explained that equitable tolling “effectively extends an otherwise discrete limitations period set by Congress” when a litigant diligently pursues his rights but extraordinary circumstances prevent him from bringing a timely action.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 31, 2021
Jurisdiction is a fundamental aspect of Nigerian procedural law. In Nigerian judicial parlance, we have become accustomed to the principle that the issue of jurisdiction can be raised at any time, even at the Nigerian Supreme Court – the highest court of the land – for the first time. [1] 6] This is wrong.
Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 16, 2017
The music battle continues over the question of whether state laws provide a public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings. The Florida case has been referred to that state’s highest court for an advisory ruling on the state of the state’s law on the issue, and earlier this week, the same thing happened in California.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
” Thus, the advantage in the litigation still rests with Beshear. However, the outcome could turn on whether Cameron (and litigant First Liberty) can force the review under the strict scrutiny standard as impinging the free exercise of religion.
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