JURIST
JANUARY 12, 2021
A federal judge in Indiana on Monday stayed federal death row inmate Lisa Montgomery’s execution. Judge James Halan of the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, granted the stay in order to allow the court to conduct a hearing to determine Montgomery’s competence to be executed.
JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
Last week US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied a similar petition from a group of Indiana University students who were protesting a similar requirement. Though her denial was through an emergency application—not a formal court decision—it likely signals that the court will not be convinced by challenges.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Through his counsel, Bourgeois told the justices that he met the current psychological standards for intellectual disability, which became the required legal standard after he was sentenced. He asked the justices to delay his execution so they could consider whether he was legally fit to be punishable by death. A panel of the U.S.
JURIST
AUGUST 4, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday upheld an Indiana law requiring medical providers to report complications “arising from” abortions to the state. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a complaint arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague.
JURIST
AUGUST 21, 2021
In a plurality decision, Circuit Judges Jennifer Walker Elrod and Don Willett wrote that the lower US District Court for the Western District of Texas committed numerous reversible legal and factual errors, applying the wrong test to assess SB8, and disregarding and misreading the Supreme Court precedents.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 27, 2022
To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v. Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. rescheduled before the Jan.
LawSites
MARCH 18, 2024
Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law.
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