JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Failure to comply with the law is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison and $1,000 in fines. The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana agreed and issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the law. Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Amy St.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

Common sense,” he continued, suggests that most people with felony convictions are aware of their legal status as convicted felons. Kavanaugh’s opinion explicitly validates that practice, but at the same time appears to render it superfluous by saying that Greer’s stipulation under the 1997 Supreme Court decision in Old Chief v.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Jackson overturned decades of precedent to declare that the right to abortion cannot be found in the Constitution, turning the question of abortion’s legality over to the states. Over the course of the last month, culminating last week, similarly important decisions have been released regarding election law ( Allen v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The court ordered the Board of Regents to produce all requested records within 90 days. C20134963 (Ariz.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Ninth Circuit declined to remand with instructions for dismissal of the underlying action and also declined to vacate any district court decisions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. Justice Alito did not take part in the case. Circuit granted the motion on May 26, 2021.

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