NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 12, 2020

More Aftermath of Scalia's Dreadful Oregon v. Smith Opinion Before advancing to the New York decisions, it probably makes sense to first address the three rulings just handed down by the Supreme Court dealing with religion.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. Law enforcement arrested Counterman on May 12, 2016, and charged him one count of stalking (credible threat), section 18-3-602(1)(b) ; one count of stalking (serious emotional distress), section 18-3-602(1)(c) ; and one count of harassment, section 18-9-111(1)(e), C.R.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The complaint states that Scofield was in Oregon with her husband visiting friends when the murders occurred. Moreover, what constitutes an opinion as opposed to a factual claim is generally left to a jury: “some statements are ambiguous and cannot be characterized as factual or nonfactual as a matter of law. ‘In

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2021

Federal and state laws do apply on Indian reservations despite their status as self-regulating states. In Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. In Lyng v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Supreme Court recently agreed to consider City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. ” The City of Grants Pass, Oregon has ordinances that preclude homeless persons from using a blanket, a pillow, or a cardboard box for protection from the elements while sleeping within the City’s limits. City of Boise , 902 F.3d 3d 1031 (9th Cir.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2024

1770 (2022), the Supreme Court held that that the provision contravened Congress’s constitutional authority to “establish…uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies,” U.S. City of Tigard , Oregon simply because it is authorized by legislation. In Siegel v. Fitzgerald , 142 S. I, § 8, Cl.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Indeed, Oregon recently achieved equity in graduation rates by simply suspending the need to be proficient in reading, math, and writing. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. It’s easier to reduce entry standards than it is to elevate performance rates. Done: Instant equity.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 13, 2021

In Oregon, however, a challenge was rejected over racially dependent benefits. A state COVID-19 program for black businesses, called the Oregon Cares Fund, was challenged by a Mexican-American café owner and others under the Equal Protection Clause. In the case of Oregon’s fund, Latino owners were excluded.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

Elenis could force a hitherto evasive Court to rule directly on the conflict between anti-discrimination laws and the religious clauses. …The Commission’s hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion.”. The decision in 303 Creative LLC v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The majority opinion written by Judge Lawrence VanDyke noted the policy in upholding a policy that excluded trans women from the Miss United States of America pageant in Oregon. ” That issue came up in the Oregon case of Anita Green.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Likewise, a study by Georgetown University’s Kevin Tobia and MIT’s Eric Martinez found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law. identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

In Oregon, a state COVID-19 program for black businesses, called the Oregon Cares Fund, was challenged by a Mexican-American café owner and others under the Equal Protection Clause. While legislative counsel and some legal experts raised concerns over the constitutionality of the law, a trial court rejected the challenge.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

San Francisco has issued a blacklist of 22 states that its municipal employees are banned from traveling to as part of their jobs and barred employees from entering into “any new contracts with companies headquartered” in any of those states I have long opposed such laws and even proposed an alliance to oppose such laws through reciprocity policies.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2021

As we have previously discussed ( with an Oregon professor and a Rutgers professor) , there remains an uncertain line in what language is protected for teachers in their private lives. There is also a tolerance of faculty and students t earing down fliers and stopping the speech of conservatives.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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