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Stern Rebuke: Auburn University Hit With Punitive Damages in Free Speech Case

JonathanTurley

In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs. He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. 205 , 391 U.S. 563, 574 (1968).

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Divided Court Strikes Down COVID-19 Restrictions on In-Home Religious Gatherings

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled in Tandon v. Accordingly, the Court granted an injunction pending disposition of the appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The post Divided Court Strikes Down COVID-19 Restrictions on In-Home Religious Gatherings appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Hochul’s Circular Firing Squad: Federal Court Rules Against New York’s Gun Law

JonathanTurley

It is hard not to see that listing as an obvious effort to do precisely what Hochul said: to recreate the ban by including virtually every location as a “sensitive area.”.

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The Rise of Gotcha Legislation: Newsom and DeSantis are Legislating Soundbites and Voters are Loving it.

JonathanTurley

Hunt , in which the Court struck down an Alabama law imposing a fee on all interstate waste coming into the state under the Dormant Commerce Clause. The Court ruled that “no state may attempt to isolate itself from a problem common to the several States by raising barriers to the free flow of interstate trade.”

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Federal Court Strikes Down Another Provision of New York’s New Gun Control Law

JonathanTurley

The new law created a target rich environment for new challenges. Nigrelli : where the court ruled that the private property exclusion violates the Second Amendment. The state might have been able to reinforce an important right of private business owners to exclude guns with a reasonable drafting of the law. .

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Transgender Student’s Challenge to Bathroom Policy

JonathanTurley

On December 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a major opinion in in Adams v. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

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Federal Judge Enjoins Illinois’ Assault Weapon Ban

JonathanTurley

The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court. of owners utilize these rifles for self-defense outside of their home and 61.9%

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