Constitutional Law Reporter
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
District Court for the District of Columbia granted the plaintiffs summary judgment, holding that the CDC lacked statutory authority to impose the moratorium. It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts.”. However, the court stayed its order pending appeal.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 27, 2022
But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” In District of Columbia v. If anyone had any doubts that the new originalism was the Federalist Society’s latest intellectual scam , then these two approaches to reading constitutional texts ought to dispel any lingering doubts.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 30, 2021
Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. One question is whether Cosby could now sue for not just the prosecution but the incarceration in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).
JonathanTurley
MARCH 10, 2022
When Plaintiffs refused to stop chalking, Sergeant Wallace decided to issue a citation to each plaintiff for violation of Nevada’s graffiti statute, which criminalizes conduct that “places graffiti on or otherwise defaces the public or private property, real or personal, of another, without the permission of the owner.” . Wesby, 138 S.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JANUARY 10, 2024
Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation of a federal statute prohibiting obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations. The law has been used in the prosecutions of numerous defendants charged in connection with the Jan. District Judge Carl J. The post SCOTUS to Consider Obstruction Statute at Issue in Jan.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the District Court for the District of Columbia has caused a bit of a stir after a hearing in a criminal case where she called for briefing on the alternative grounds for the right to an abortion. That included 21 of the 27 ratifying states.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 18, 2021
In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. The Supreme Court accepted the case for review and was expected to overturn the law — until New York suddenly changed the law and then quietly sought to withdraw its case before any ruling. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.
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