Patently O

AUGUST 11, 2022

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. by Dennis Crouch. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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Above The Law

JULY 8, 2022

If You Can't Stand The Heat, Get Out Through The Kitchen : Morton's Steakhouse helped Brett Kavanaugh run away through the back door when protesters arrived at a restaurant and then offered its own hilariously bad take on constitutional law. — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Because that's the logic here.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2022

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Tuesday to enact a law that makes it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency. 8 in Texas in September 2021. Jackson , many states have enacted copy-cat or otherwise restrictive abortion laws.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Justice Sotomayor participated in the event with law students by Zoom. Sotomayor first told the law students to expect a “huge amount” of disappointment in the law and pointed to “my dissents” as evidence of that struggle. Sotomayor then turned to the recent court decision not to intervene in the Texas abortion case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 1, 2023

Facts of the Case A Texas jury found petitioner Rodney Reed guilty of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Reed’s conviction and death sentence. In 2014, Reed filed a motion in Texas state court under Texas’s post-conviction DNA testing law.

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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. Texas : The case involves gaming activities on Native American land in Texas. Texas , 36 F.3d

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Five Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Vaello-Madero : The case concerns whether Congress can exclude Puerto Rico from federal disability benefits.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Court’s Chevron decision established a bedrock principle of administrative law. Natural Resources Defense Council , or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.” 837 (1984).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 3, 2022

Supreme Court held that Texas can’t execute a man death row unless it allows his pastor to pray and lay hands on him while he is executed. A Texas jury sentenced John Ramirez to death after he brutally murdered Pablo Castro in 2004. In Ramirez v. Collier , 595 U. S. _ (2022), the U.S. Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a case that is expected to define the scope of federal identity theft law. David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas. The post Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. Multiple States, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, argue that the common law does not apply because the abandoned proceeds of the Disputed Instruments are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Checks Act.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Rahimi, will decide whether a federal law banning the possession of guns by individuals who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders is constitutional. Facts of the Case Between December 2020 and January 2021, Zackey Rahimi was involved in five shootings in and around Arlington, Texas. The case, United States v.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ohio lawmakers have introduced new anti-abortion bill.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 20, 2022

USERRA’s cause of action against state employers may be pursued only in state courts, which a Texas court found to be unconstitutional because Congress lacks the power to authorize lawsuits against nonconsenting states pursuant to its War Powers. Decisions in all of the above cases are expected before the Court’s current term ends in June.

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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. 8 violates the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2024

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB 4. Many of us had predicted this result given the prior precedent of the Supreme Court on the federal preemption of state immigration laws. ’ The Texas and federal laws are not congruent on this score.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I will be joined by two distinguished academics: Professor Elizabeth Sepper, University of Texas at Austin School of Law and Professor John Yoo, University of California Berkeley School of Law. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court’s new religious clause jurisprudence has transformed the area.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2022

The post First Amendment Case on Tap for SCOTUS’s January Sitting appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Tam, 137 S. 1744 (2017), Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., 200 (2015), and Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, 555 U.S. 460 (2009). Hungerbeeler, 370 F.3d 3d 735 (8th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2023

In 2017, Denmark took a historic step in favor of free speech by rescinding its blasphemy law after 334 years. Now, however, the liberal government is moving to reinstate the blasphemy crime with a new law barring the burning of the Qur’an, the Bible, and other religous texts. That law will be extended to religious books.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Apart from time spent criticizing the majority opinion, lengthy dissents can be used to lay the groundwork for future case law – as we saw among the conservative justices’ dissents in every abortion-related case between Roe and Dobbs. These observations are not a new phenomenon. In the coming term, the justices are slated to hear Moore v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2022

We previously discussed concerns over free speech on the campus of the University of North Texas, including the canceling of an event on child gender transitioning. Professor Hiers sued the Board of Regents of the University of North Texas after it told him that it did not renew his contract due to his criticism of the policy.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 16, 2021

The City of San Antonio—acting on behalf of a class of 173 Texas municipalities—was awarded a multi-million-dollar judgment in Federal District Court against a number of popular online travel companies (OTCs) over the calculation of hotel occupancy taxes. The justices’ decision was unanimous. Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Bruen, the Court considered the constitutionality of a New York gun law. Based on oral arguments, it appeared that a majority of the Court could be persuaded that the law runs afoul of the Second Amendment. Texas and Whole Woman’s Health v. The issues in United States v. 8, but the U.S. Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson: S.B.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. The post Supreme Court Considers Scope of Federal Bribery Law appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases. One of the most closely watched is Percoco v. United States v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Guillard is a Texas-based social media commentator, and accused Scofield of arranging the murder of Xana Kernodle, her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, and Kernodle’s roommates Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in their Moscow (Idaho) house on Nov. Scofield denies ever meeting any of the victims, let alone having an affair with one of them.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2022

used the leak to call for not just the passage of the federal law but for killing the filibuster as well: “Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. If that was the purpose, it seems quickly realized as figures like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,

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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. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place. California Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2022

Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke has been ping-ponging on gun confiscation ever since his presidential candidacy in 2019 when he famously declared “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15.” ” When he decided to run for Texas governor, he then dialed down that pledge.

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Above The Law

MAY 10, 2021

Religious fear and hatred of nonbelievers is real, the question is whether legal mechanisms exist that nonbelievers can utilize to defend themselves. .

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2024

A pair of cases challenging Texas and Florida’s controversial social media laws took center stage. While the state laws are slightly different, both limit social media platforms’ ability to engage in content moderation by removing, editing, or arranging user-generated content. NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. McIntosh v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2021

The release also breaks down the death count by state, reporting that 124 officers died in Texas, 53 died in California and 44 died in New York. As we had feared, the virus has claimed the lives of many, and now includes a growing number of law enforcement officers,” the release reads. They like to fight for every single benefit.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. In their opinion, Congress specifically prohibited courts from issuing injunctions related to certain immigration laws. In United States v. 1231(a)(2) ). “If

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment. In Netchoice, LLC v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 17, 2022

1112 (2019), the Supreme Court held that a person challenging a State’s method of execution could allege an alternative “not … authorized under current state law” and that there was therefore “little likelihood that an inmate facing a serious risk of pain will be unable to identify an available alternative.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Attorney General Merrick Garland was widely covered in pledging that the Justice Department would defend women in Texas seeking abortions. Garland appears to be answering a different question than the one raised by the new law. However, Garland was pledging to enforce a law that has long been robustly enforced.

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