HowAppealing

MARCH 15, 2023

” The post “Georgia Judge Avoids Removal Over Ethical Concerns, For Now; Judge purportedly mistreated clients as an attorney; Code of Judicial Conduct only applies to judges” appeared first on How Appealing.

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MARCH 8, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski in favor of a former Georgia college student in a campus free speech case. The court ruled that Article 3 standing’s redressability element is satisfied if the plaintiffs’ claim is based on a completed violation of a legal right.

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HowAppealing

JULY 20, 2022

“Federal court says Georgia’s anti-abortion law can now be enforced”: Maya T. ” Lateshia Beachum of The Washington Post reports that “ Court allows Georgia’s ‘heartbeat’ abortion law to go into effect post-Roe.”

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

The new stipulation says that an Illinois ethics rule banning sex discrimination also apply when a lawyer discriminates against a transgender individual on the basis of sex in violation of a law or ordinance which uses the word sex encompassing gender identity or expression. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in United States v. Respondents contend—and the CAAF held—that the phrase means capable of punishment by death when all applicable law is taken into account. Because this Court held in Coker v. The court agreed with the government’s argument and upheld the convictions as timely.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated a federal trial court’s order that barred officials in Georgia from using “at large” elections for the state’s Public Service Commission. In a brief unsigned order , the justices granted a request to lift the ruling by the U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This relates to a federal law, 28 USC § 1442 (a)(1) , allowing state-level cases against federal officers relating to acts under the “color” of their official duties to be moved to federal court. The appeals court first considered whether the law applies to former federal officers.

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2021

Five Republican senators introduced a bill on Wednesday to remove Major League Baseball’s (MLB) antitrust exemption after the MLB moved the All-Star game out of Georgia to protest Georgia’s new voting restrictions. The Senators described the decision to move the All-Star game out of Georgia as “ hyper-partisan.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 9, 2021

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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MAY 8, 2020

On April 27, the Supreme Court took us on a stroll down memory lane in its decision in Georgia v. The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v. Myers , based its decision on this doctrine, which limits copyright protection for works created by officials who are empowered to speak with the force of law. The Background.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

Officials say that the proliferation of guns, eased by the state’s loosening restrictions on them, comes at economic and social costs, while festival safety measures have been under intense scrutiny since a crowd surge at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in November killed 10.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In coverage of the ruling, Orlando Montoya of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports that “ Drug sentencing ruling hinges on definition of simple, common word.” ” Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that “ ‘And’ means ‘and,’ Atlanta federal appeals court rules.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2023

In June 2010, the Strasbourg-based court ruled that the Convention allows for same-sex marriages but does not require states to perform them. ” These laws make it a crime to distribute information about LGBT relationships to children and to engage in some pro-LGBT speech.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). ” O.C.G.A.

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LawSites

MAY 3, 2022

Supreme Court victory defeating the state of Georgia’s claim of copyright in its official legislative code, to his 2022 federal court win allowing him to publish private-industry technical standards that are incorporated by reference into thousands of federal, state and local laws, Malamud has devoted his career to freeing the law. .

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The district court ruled in favor of the petitioners, and Galveston County appealed. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit said that the district court opinion was an error of law. Some courts have ruled in favor of them, while others have denied them.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Congress passed a tax law that allowed taxpayers to deduct from federal income taxation only up to $10,000 of state and local taxes. Then-President Donald Trump described the 2017 law as an “incentive” for taxpayers “to say, hey, make sure that your politicians do a good job of running your state.” New York v. United States.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

We recently discussed a federal court upholding the Georgia election law as constitutional, rejecting challenges based on voter suppression by a group associated with Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. General laws for absentee voting. Section 4A.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Today, 44 states and the District of Columbia have laws aiming to protect fetal development from drugs or alcohol. Its legal proceedings take place out of public view, under seal, with a low standard of evidence and often a court-appointed attorney for the fetus — but none for the person gestating it. About 400 cases a year.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

On Tuesday, the justices will confront double jeopardy issues in the case of Damian McElrath , a Georgia man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity on one murder charge arising from the stabbing death of his mother, while he was found guilty but mentally ill on a different murder charge (as well as an aggravated assault charge).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Sekulow urged the court to take up the case quickly “to prevent the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision from having an irreparable effect on the electoral process.” He indicated that he was “prepared to abide by whatever expedited processes this Court may set.” Marjorie Taylor Greene from seeking reelection. And on Dec.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The justices also rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of New Jersey’s “slogan statutes” – laws that allow candidates in primary elections to list a short phrase next to their names on the ballot. Other cases in which the justices denied review on Monday included: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products v. 6 attacks on the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). In May 2022, the House of Representatives in Cyprus passed Law 69(I)/2022 on the Establishment and Operation of the Commercial Court and Admiralty Court.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 21, 2023

Introduction Rising cross-border migration of people and concomitant increase in lawsuits relating to matrimonial disputes between couples brings to the forefront the issue of conflict of jurisdictional laws ( 219 th Law Commission Report , ¶1.1-¶1.2). The lex situs approach upheld in Mbatha falls under the “partial mutability” rule.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

District Judge Tanya Chutkan, originally scheduled for March 4 but now on hold, can go forward, but also whether the former president’s trials in Florida and Georgia can proceed. Trump cites a law review article by then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who before becoming a judge worked in the George W. In the landmark Marbury v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 922(g)(5)(A), the prosecution must prove not only that a defendant knew he had a gun, but also that the defendant knew of his legal status as a prohibited person. Issues : (1) Whether — given that the Supreme Court held in Rehaif v. In Rehaif v. In Waller v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

Although the decision did not involve cash payments to college athletes, it may pave the way for a future Supreme Court ruling on whether college athletes should be able to earn money for playing sports – either directly from their universities or through lucrative endorsement deals. Monday’s decision in NCAA v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 4, 2022

After major rulings on gun rights, abortion and climate change, Democratic leaders and pundits declared the court to be “illegitimate.” Madison in 1803, when the court ruled that it must be the final arbiter of what the law means. For example, after the court ruled in Worcester v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2021

The court rejected a petition for review filed by Frederick Whatley , who was convicted of murder in connection with an armed robbery in Georgia. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , Mississippi’s request for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the constitutionality of a state law that bans abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Over 40 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The officers sought review by the full 11th Circuit, which disagreed with the panel.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Law professors discovered that the bot can pass their exams. One CEO offered $1 million to any Supreme Court litigator willing to let ChatGPT argue their case (a prospect both ethically dubious and physically impossible ). It butchered the results of the court’s 2020 copyright decision in Georgia v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. 17-4-60 (2010) 17-4-60.

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