SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 21, 2022
The court’s opinion confirms this view. The Boechler opinion requires that Congress make a “clear statement” to produce a jurisdictional statute. Because the statute is not jurisdictional, it is not exempt from equitable tolling, which by default applies to non-jurisdictional limitations periods under Irwin v.
The Crime Report
JUNE 21, 2022
A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports.
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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 18, 2021
In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal. A remand order, the companies reason, “is a written command or direction that the case must be returned to state court”; it “necessarily rejects” all of the grounds for removal on which the defendant relied.
Law Prose
OCTOBER 12, 2022
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2023
Pirani suggest a court leaning toward a split decision, rejecting liability under only one of the two securities-law statutes at issue in the case. Slack Technologies asks the court to apply two provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 to a relatively new method of going public known as a “direct listing.”
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Dobbs reiterates the long-established principle that unwritten rights, to be enforced by courts, must be deeply rooted in our history. Applying that test, Dobbs holds: (a) From the 1200s to 1960, no statute, no English case, no state case, no federal case, no legal treatise, and no law-review article hinted at an abortion right.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 23, 2022
Although the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Martinez v. Ryan permitted defendants to raise such claims for the first time in federal court, on Monday the court ruled 6-3 that they cannot develop evidence to support those claims.
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