JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2023

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee law limiting drag shows on constitutional grounds. Putting that concern aside, I have serious free speech concerns over the reach of these laws. Federal district judge Thomas Parker granted an injunction on the ground that the Tennessee law is vague and overly broad.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

The States have asked the justices to stay implementation while litigation continues in the lower courts. The post Supreme Court Hears Challenge to EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the motions to stay and the States appealed to the Supreme Court.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Through more than two years of litigation, the Secretary of Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services led the state’s legal defense of its law prohibiting abortions in which an unborn child is dismembered while still alive. Over a dissent, the Sixth Circuit refused to allow the Attorney General to defend Kentucky law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Among the slew of challenges to state abortion laws after the decision in Dobbs v. The complaint by three Jewish women from Louisville seeks to block the state trigger law on the basis that it violates their religious rights since they do not believe that life begins at fertilization under Jewish law, or Halakha.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. It is particularly noteworthy that Justice Stephen Breyer called out his colleagues for engaging in the most rank form of law-office history in his dissent.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. United States : The case involves the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause and how it applies toa prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses. Litigation about the Rule ensued, and the Supreme Court granted review of the Second Circuit’s opinion.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Share In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 12, a ballot initiative that its supporters describe as the country’s strongest law to protect farm animals. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a challenge to the constitutionality of the law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Three University of Florida political science professors have told a federal court that the university barred them from assisting plaintiffs in a challenge to the state’s new voting laws. As state employees, they were told that litigating against a state law would be “adverse to U.F.’s ’s interests.”

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LexForti

JUNE 4, 2021

One of the most vital concerns that a legal practitioner is essentially seen to deal with, that is with respect to any particular dispute or one that has arisen out of a legal relationship between the respective parties subsequently brings into consideration the forum which has/will/have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain such a dispute.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The government presented no such evidence at Jones’s trial – under the law at the time, it didn’t have to in order to sustain a conviction – and although he had 11 prior felony convictions, Jones testified that he believed his record had been expunged. There is no provision for new rules of statutory interpretation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2022

The comment quickly lit up the lines of law professors, including my own mailbox. I have long questioned the weight given stare decisis in constitutional cases. The Court has long embraced the “doctrine of precedent, under which a court must follow earlier judicial decisions when the same points arise again in litigation.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 8, 2021

Exemption 5 incorporates the privileges available to Government agencies in civil litigation, such as the deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, and attorney work-product privilege. The post SCOTUS Rules FOIA Exception Applies to Environmental Opinion appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 9, 2021

Nominal damages are enough to allow citizens to litigate the loss of free speech rights. Preczewski that “, it is undisputed that Uzuegbunam experienced a completed violation of his constitutional rights when respondents enforced their speech policies against him. .” The Supreme Court has now said enough.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2022

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich) in 2007 after a long legal career as private counsel. Gleicher was appointed by Gov.

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Legal Research is Easy

AUGUST 5, 2019

Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. The kicker is that unlike parents (who, hopefully, are on the same page and the kid realizes that it's unlikely dad will overrule mom), it is critical that courts make the same rulings over and over so that people know how law will be applied.

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SimplyLawJobs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In this Simply Law article, our partner’s Lawyer Monthly discusses the 9 things you need to know before choosing a law school. The prospect of going to law school is not only one that requires a lot of hard work and money but also some thorough research. Do you really need a law degree? Business Law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

Some have called for the change to increase diversity in the schools, particularly after California voters refused to change the long ban on affirmative action in education under state law. Ending standardized testing will have a notable impact on legal challenges to the use of race in college admissions.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jackson that abortion providers may bring a pre-enforcement challenge in federal court as one means to test whether Texas’ s strict abortion law violates the U.S. Constitution, albeit only against certain state medical licensing officials. The justices also ruled that the law (S.B. Facts of the Case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A school district “may legally preserve the property under its control for the use to which it is dedicated,” but once it opens a governmental space to non-governmental speakers, that control does not permit viewpoint-based restrictions. Here is the order: Flores v. Bennett.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Gavin Newsom thrilled many this weekend by saying that his administration will model a new law on Texas’ abortion ban that would let private citizens sue anyone who makes or sells assault weapons or ghost guns. Legally, that is. It will be hugely successful politically, but not without costs to the state and potential litigants.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is a frivolous lawsuit based on an absurd law motivated by raw hypocrisy. It is a cynical effort to impose litigation costs on companies to get them to refuse to accept such contracts. Such inquiries would themselves violated legal and constitutional protections. This is truly a thing to behold.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Lower courts have upheld the New York law, but there are ample constitutional concerns over its vague standard, such as showing that you are “of good moral character.” City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. 2)(f) that require a showing of “proper cause.”

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Michael Luttig was a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1991-2006) and was assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department (1990-1991). ” The King of England was long held to “do no wrong” legally as a matter of immunity.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. It was a tour-de-force on the value of satire to make profound legal and political points. Image from Supreme Court Petition. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

While the Administration insists that it complied with a law that required Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to make the reappointments personally, it later issued a retroactive reappointment for most of the directors after months of congressional inquiry. That, too, is not allowed under federal law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Known as “TJ,” the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Va.,

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

A litigant, even proceeding under a declaratory judgment action, would need to show standing and an underlying injury. This controversy is reminiscent of the litigation over racial preferences used by the Biden Administration under its controversial $4 billion race-based federal relief program for farmers.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The West Point case shows the legal lunacy and lethality of this doctrine.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a “little brother problem, a problem which private entities do for the government which it cannot legally do for itself.” Whatever the outcome of the litigation, the filing raises, again, whether our concept of state censorship and a state media are outmoded.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

Depp and Heard were married for just over a year but have already spent three times than that in litigation. Depp earlier tried to sued a newspaper in England where the libel laws are far more favorable to those claiming defamation. It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 14, 2022

* Elon Musk has reportedly ousted Quinn Emanuel's Alex Spiro as Twitter's top -- if not official -- legal counsel. That makes sense, because Spiro is a noted litigator and, having looked at Tesla's stock price, what Musk really needs these days is some bankruptcy counsel. [ Because history is critical to constitutional law.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 29, 2022

The court unanimously held that Section 1806(f) of FISA — providing a procedure under which a trial-level court or other authority may consider the legality of electronic surveillance conducted under FISA and order specified forms of relief — does not displace the state secrets privilege. Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2022

The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements, and international child custody disputes. The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Below is a brief summary of the issues before the Court: Berger v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2024

This litigation is clearly designed for one overriding purpose: to delay any release until after the election when it cannot harm the President. It is also dangerous.

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LexForti

JULY 26, 2021

In another more recent case, a complaint was launched against actor Amitabh Bachchan for singing the national anthem for 1 min 22 sec instead of the 52 seconds as prescribed by our law. But they are not laws. Asian countries including Singapore and Malaysia have their own specific national anthem law.

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