SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Share Wednesday’s decision in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas resolves a longstanding dispute about the ability of Texas to control gambling on the lands of two of the Native American tribes that reside there. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion for the court squarely rejects that understanding.

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Law 360

JUNE 29, 2021

Having received guidance from the Texas Supreme Court that Amazon cannot be held liable for third-party products that are shipped and fulfilled by Amazon, but not manufactured by the company under its brand, the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a lower court's decision that Amazon is a "seller" under the state's law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

The governor expressed outrage last month to the Supreme Court decision and said that “if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. Facts of the Cases The two cases before the Court, Moody v.

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OilandGasLawyer

JUNE 9, 2021

This bill, signed by the Governor, fixes a problem with the provisions of the Texas Business and Commerce Code that grant a security interest in oil and gas production and proceeds to secure the payor’s obligation to pay royalty owners. I have written about this problem before. SB 1259.

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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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JURIST

MAY 17, 2023

The study is organized by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) based at The University of Texas at Austin and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) based at the University of California San Francisco. All 50 of these instances occurred in the states with strict bans described above.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“Alito Responds to Critics of the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’; In a speech at Notre Dame, the justice addressed recent emergency rulings on abortion, asylum and evictions, saying they followed longstanding procedures”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Alito says high court is no such thing.”

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

and (2) Is eligibility a pure questions of law (based upon the claims); or does it also involve a “question of fact for the jury based upon the state of the art at the time of the patent?” Dennis Crouch & Homayoon Rafatijo, Resorbing Patent Law’s Kessler Cat into the General Law of Preclusion , 54 Akron Law Ref.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On January 21, 2023, he hanged himself on death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. Andrus’ decision to end his own life rather than allow the State of Texas to take it came roughly six months after the U.S. In its June 2020 decision , the U.S. That did not end his tragic story.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . Bruen, held that New York’s law requirement of a license to carry concealed weapons in public places was unconstitutional.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2023

The decision by the Fifth Circuit ran against the grain of at least five other federal circuit courts of appeals which have held that, under certain circumstances, solitary confinement can create an Eighth Amendment violation. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case. Sinclair v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

.” Tuesday’s decision is the first time the court has ruled pregnant people can exercise reproductive autonomy without facing criminal sanctions. The decision has been touted as Mexico’s Roe v. Wade , a reference to the landmark US Supreme Court decision that struck down laws that restricted abortion.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday overturned a panel decision and upheld Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which seeks to prohibit a specific type of dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion method.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 1, 2023

. § 1983 procedural due process claim begins to run at the end of the state-court litigation. 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.

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OilandGasLawyer

JULY 18, 2023

The Court’s opinion relies on two Texas Supreme Court decisions that were controversial: Natural Gas Pipeline co. Dorchester Minerals, L.P. addressing an interesting issue on adverse possession of a non-operating working interest. One justice dissented. of America v. Pool, 124 S.W.3d 3d 188 (Tex. Marshall, 342 S.W.3d

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JURIST

AUGUST 27, 2023

Texas District Court Judge Maria Cant ú Hexsel temporarily blocked SB 14 , which bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts children already taking gender-affirming prescription drugs, from going into effect on Friday. The case is in the District Court of Travis County, Texas.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Alfred Bourgeois became the 10th person to be put to death by the federal government this year, after the Supreme Court on Friday evening denied his application for a delay of the execution. Federal law and Supreme Court precedent ban the execution of someone who is mentally disabled. The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ohio lawmakers have introduced new anti-abortion bill.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Texas Department of Public Safety , the justices will weigh in on a lawsuit brought against the department by a former state trooper who resigned from his job when the department would not provide accommodations for a respiratory condition resulting from his service as an Army reservist in Iraq. In Torres v. And in LeDure v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Next up is Kelly v.

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OilandGasLawyer

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

On October 28 Judge David Jones, US Bankruptcy Court for Southern District in Houston, issued a memorandum opinion in Chesapeake Energy’s bankruptcy (Case No. 20-33233), granting Chesapeake’s motion to reject its contract to sell gas to ETC Texas Pipeline. ” As the court explained, In simple terms, Sec.

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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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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Our nonprofit law firm, the Institute for Justice , represents her. Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. Department of Homeland Security agent, who pulled a gun on a Texas mechanic named Kevin Byrd , in a personal dispute.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 26, 2021

Dickinson: Realignment of the Planets – Brexit and European Private International Law. Thirdly, by considering the impact on the UK’s and the EU’s relationships with third countries, with particular reference to the 2007 Lugano Convention and Hague Choice of Court Convention.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

I addressed some of those issues in a presentation earlier this month at the Texas Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention. In the Texas presentation, I covered some of the many other copyright issues that are on the horizon, many of which we have written about in the pages of this blog. webcasting and Internet radio).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected that claim. Tingley also asks the court to overrule Employment Division v. Four years ago, the Supreme Court held in Nieves v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain. Williamson County, Texas. From 2012 to 2016, Hansen earned an estimated $1.8 In United States v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For a time, that decision stopped the death penalty in its tracks and offered a stinging critique of its unfairness. Yet it left the door open for states to implement or reform their own laws – and some chose to preserve capital punishment. Four years after Furman, the death penalty was back before the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a few slow weeks on the relist front, the Supreme Court came roaring back this week with four newly relisted petitions that, if granted, will likely be added to the March 2023 argument calendar. The law firms’ bank records also reveal information about the firms’ other clients, such as Hanna. Texas , 21-1601.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed an earlier ruling that had stopped Texas from enforcing its social media law, HB 20, which supporters see as a way to get Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media companies to stop what many on the right have long viewed as “censorship” of conservative viewpoints.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2024

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

The Marietta decision, which concerns discrimination against individuals with end-stage renal disease, potentially provides businesses with a workaround they can use to avoid triggering LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws.

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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. Newsom denounced the Supreme Court in Women’s Health v. California Gov. It won’t work. Legally, that is.

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