Court Decisions Legal Stare Decisis Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
If that is so, as is indeed it is, how much less can parties by their private acts remove the jurisdiction properly and legally vested in our Courts ? Our courts should be in charge of their own proceedings. There are five comments that could be made about the Court of Appeal’s decision (Hussaini JCA) in A.B.U.
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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. Next up is Bartenwerfer v.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2022
The court will hold the other case raising that question, Ham v. Breckon , pending the outcome in Jones. This week we have only one new relist: Thomas v.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Three physicians and the Catholic Association Foundation write that advances in science have “painted an intimate portrait of the fetus and its humanity” and therefore the court’s viability framework is outdated. Against stare decisis. State abortion restrictions, they say, should be subject only to rational-basis review.
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