JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

1 (1985), when the court addressed the Fourth Amendment protections afforded a fleeing suspect and held that an officer may not use deadly force to prevent escape unless “the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.” In Graham 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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Kimberly if there was an “easy fix” for the tribe and the federal government to avoid double jeopardy problems in future cases in the event that the Supreme Court rules in favor of Denezpi. Kimberly responded that there are two easy fixes, both of which, he asserted, respect tribal sovereignty.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

In this case, the court ruled that that burden was not satisfied. The court distinguished between the duty to the mother as opposed to the girlfriend: Here, it is uncontroverted that Loyd never actually communicated to Benton that he intended to harm Melissa. ” Rodriguez v. Catholic Health Initiatives , 297 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

Notably, this attack occurred when the courts were conducting a major review of this law. In 2018, the Court of Appeal of Kansas address a case of a citizen grand jury. The district court erred when it held that Davis was required to allege specific facts in his petition. Davis has met this standard.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

A federal appeals court ruled that Gonzalez’s case could not go forward because she had not provided examples of others who had engaged in the same kind of conduct but had not engaged in protected speech and had not been arrested.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

A provision known as the executive vesting clause gives the president the “executive power,” which, under the principle of separation of powers, courts cannot sit in judgment over, Trump observes. Madison case, Trump continues, the Supreme Court ruled that courts can never review a president’s official acts.

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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

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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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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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

For we are presented with a clear and simple statute to be judged against a pure command of the Constitution. That law was struck down in United States v. The Court ruled that “the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”. 310 (1990).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

The Court wrote that “[s] ince the statute does not specify the elements of “attempt to kill,” they are those required for an “attempt” at common law, … which include a specific intent to commit the unlawful act. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled on the case of Robert Watts, a teenager facing the draft, who went to a Vietnam War protest and declared “if they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want in my sights is L.B.J.” ” Such statements are obviously magnified in seriousness when expressed directly to the person.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, unanimously rejected that position and held that the ministerial exception applied. The other cases Kruger argued touched on a wide range of issues, from the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause and right to counsel to federal “career criminal” laws and federal benefits laws.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

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. COUNT TWO (Aiding and Abetting Assault and Battery). COUNT THREE (Directing Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress). In Brandenburg v.

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