The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Keeping elderly offenders in prison until their deaths is expensive, too: the report found that Pennsylvania pays at least $122 million per year in care for people over 50 serving life without parole in the state’s prisons. At 9,802, the state imprisons more than twice the people serving LWP than the second-highest population in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that uncashed MoneyGram checks are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act (FDA) and should be returned to the state where they were issued. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

Arguing that Mansky had approved of an earlier Supreme Court decision allowing transit authorities to prohibit such advertising, the transit system asks for the court’s review. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

By allowing judges to ignore such considerations when sentencing a young person to die behind bars, the recent Supreme Court decision promises to further inequity. Since 2012, Louisiana has sentenced 57 percent of eligible juvenile offenders to life without parole compared to fewer than 2 percent in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to review the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that overturned entertainer Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Cosby appealed the decision, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction in June 2021.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

In Pennsylvania v. Cosby , justices rebuffed a request from Pennsylvania prosecutors to revive sexual assault charges against Cosby. But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out Cosby’s conviction, reasoning that he had relied on a 2005 press release in which a prosecutor, citing lack of evidence, had declined to file charges.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s a little surprising the court let stand a federal court decision invalidating a state statute on constitutional grounds, but animal-rights groups defending that decision argued persuasively that state statutes are in a state of flux and it would be premature for the justices to take up the case now.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2021

Supreme Court decisions indicate that it is “inherently prejudicial” for a defendant to appear before a jury in shackles, but both the state courts and the lower federal courts rejected his claims. Whatley argued that U.S. Nearly three months after Inauguration Day, the justices vacated a ruling by the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

John Bailey, a police sergeant in Pennsylvania, was among the first to tap Harpster and Adams for help after learning about their technique from the FBI. The FBI, which declined to comment for this article, published some of the dissent in another law enforcement bulletin. But the reversal has gone largely unnoticed.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Under Clinton, Days was initially seen as a potential candidate for a seat on the Supreme Court. But he became the center of a political firestorm after he told the court that it should not affirm the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who was found guilty of possessing sexually explicit videotapes of minors. The George H.W.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Smith , and if so, whether the Supreme Court should overrule Smith. The court faced but did not decide the issue of whether to overrule Smith in last term’s Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.). Two terms ago, the Supreme Court held by a 5-4 vote in McGirt v. Pennsylvania , 20-7805. They invoke Rapanos v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

UK Supreme Court Overturned an Appellate Court Decision, Allowing the Approval Process for a Third Runway at Heathrow International Airport to Move Forward. Bureau of Land Management , No. 4:20-cv-00115 (D. filed Dec. HERE ARE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Raiders, a Pennsylvania-based company, insured a yacht with Great Lakes. The insurer then filed an action for declaratory judgment in federal district court in Pennsylvania to determine whether the policy was indeed void. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

In an opinion joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Thomas, Rehnquist contended that the recount ordered by a state court violated the legislature’s authority under the electors clause because it conflicted with the deadlines set by the state legislature. Roberts agreed that the court did have the power to decide the case on the merits.

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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). order setting schedule Mar. 1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

He also testified that in all of the court decisions he reviewed regarding Trump’s claims, the Trump campaign did not make cogent claims of fraud. Gore , said that it would not have been possible for Trump to make up his 10,000 vote deficit in Arizona, or any other state, with a normal recount.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2022

Pennsylvania is less than 24 hours out from primary elections—and there are some major issues on the line right here on JURIST’s doorstep that have attracted national and even international attention. Pennsylvania primaries are a complicated beast to explain to in-state people, let alone out-of-state or out-of-country.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Three Republican senators – Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, and Ted Cruz of Texas – write that a precedent can be unworkable due to “a history of confusion in the lower courts, an unstable pattern of Supreme Court decisions, and a persistent lack of judicially manageable standards.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

The petitions in Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party , 20-574 , involve challenges to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ’s extension of an absentee-voting deadline last year. They argue that the court nonetheless should grant review in order to clarify the law for future elections.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is listed on the Social Science Research Network as “forthcoming” this year in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.) There is debate over “officer of the United States” and “Term Limits,” which the chief justice asks Mitchell to clarify that he’s referring to a 1995 Supreme Court decision, U.S. 6 assault on the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” We need to put this insidious legal theory to rest with the finality and clarity of a Supreme Court decision. Such marches are common — on both federal and state capitols — to protest or to support actions occurring inside. I hope that she does. Here is the opinion: Anderson v.

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