Court Decisions Litigation Statute Texas 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Texas presents yet another installment in the decades-long conflict between state gambling regulators and Native American tribes. That decision distinguishes between types of gambling that a state prohibits outright and types of gambling that a state tolerates subject to regulation. Share Tuesday’s argument in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 1, 2023
According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. 1983 procedural due process claim begins to run at the end of the state-court litigation.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Qualcomm , a case focusing on appellate standing following an IPR final written decision favoring the patentee. The statute indicates that any party to an IPR final-written-decision has a right to appeal. Rather, an appellant must show concrete injury caused by the PTAB decision and redressability of that injury.
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. District courts have discretion to impose either consecutive or concurrent sentences unless a statute mandates otherwise.
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. In Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v.
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. The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. This time the court’s verdict was less equivocal, though no less divided.
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