SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Michael Kimberly, arguing for Denezpi, opened by stating that the law-making and law-enforcing aspects of sovereignty are equally important to determining whether expressions of sovereign power are separate. Kimberly responded that those issues might arise in future cases but are not before the court in Denezpi.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

Garner and other case law. Garner addressed a fleeing unarmed suspects and found the state statute too broad: The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m., Garner , 471 U.S. ” T ennessee v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

.” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

However, some states have passed laws limiting its impact. In Nebraska, the state supreme court previously ruled in Munstermann v. and shall be discharged by the psychiatrist if reasonable efforts are made to communicate the threat to the victim or victims and to a law enforcement agency. Alegent Health, 271 Neb.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. 47 U.S.C. §

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2023

He was convicted of the lawful possession of a firearm due to his drug use and sentenced to four years in prison. The Fifth Circuit recently reversed the trial court, ruling that the federal statute conflicts with the Second Amendment. Some of those crimes were allowed to expire under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

There is an interesting case out of Kansas where an alleged rape victim has used a 134-year-old law to seek her own grand jury after prosecutors reached a plea bargain with the alleged attacker. Now, Smith is asserting the right to charge him with rape in the same case after the prosecution and the court signed off on the plea agreement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. Senior U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Jury selection is currently underway in a Manhattan courtroom, where Trump is being tried on charges that he broke state law when he made a “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels so that she would remain silent about her alleged affair with Trump as the 2016 presidential election approached. “The In the landmark Marbury v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Some worked behind the scenes. A few attained modest fame.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

That would be a pretty weak case of property destruction but the police then added a “hate crime enhanced allegation” due to “the demeanor displayed by [the woman] in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a ‘Pro Law Enforcement’ sign.”. That law was struck down in United States v. Eichman , 496 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. the Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court. as “only jealousy.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

In past columns, we have discussed how Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe seems intent upon running through the entire criminal code in declaring clear evidence of every federal crime by former President Donald Trump and/or his family. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The only evidence of Weiss’s intent that the Court is aware of comes from Weiss’s interview with law enforcement, in which he admitted to having an intent to harass the Senator, rather than to threaten him. Even law professors are now engaging in such reckless rhetoric. Coalition of Life Activists (9th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. That claim runs directly counter to the controlling case law. Code § 22-1322 – Incitement to Riot).

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