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. Currently, 30 out of the 46 member states of Council of Europe legally recognize same-sex unions.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2024

Salvatore Mancuso , known as an ex-paramilitary chief, former drug trafficker, and former commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), experienced a complex legal journey. The Court ruled in favor of Mancuso, instructing the Justice and Peace Tribunal to enforce these measures.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia , which held that that Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination also extends to gay and transgender workers. The post Federal district court rules trans discrimination violates Illinois attorney ethics appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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

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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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in United States v. Because this Court held in Coker v. Georgia that the Eighth Amendment forbids a death sentence for the rape of an adult woman, respondents argue that they could not, in fact, have been sentenced to death, and therefore the statute of limitations for their crimes.

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Trademark & Copyright Law

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. Accordingly, copyright protection does not extend to annotations in the State of Georgia’s official code because of its “authors.”. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., The Background.

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JURIST

JULY 30, 2023

Former President Donald Trump filed a notice of appeal Friday in the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the ongoing falsified documents criminal case surrounding payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. This is only one of many legal troubles plaguing Trump as he begins his 2024 run for President.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Georgia , Coker v. Georgia and Kennedy v. In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled that imposing the death penalty for rape was cruel and unusual punishment. The post Virginia governor posthumously pardons ‘Martinsville Seven’ 70 years post execution appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

As gun-control legislation stalls at the federal level, developments in the music festival circuit have underscored the impact of state laws, with Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival, originally set for next month, being canceled because of a Georgia court ruling that prevented organizers from banning guns on festival grounds, reports the Washington Post. (..)

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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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the prosecution in a case of illegal gun possession by a person with a nonimmigrant visa must prove he knew of his legal status, and the inquiry courts should follow in deciding to close the courtroom to the public.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Share When ChatGPT , a cutting-edge artificial-intelligence chatbot, launched in November, it captured the attention of the legal community. We created a list of 50 questions about the Supreme Court and fed them one by one to ChatGPT. Some were requests for basic facts (like Question #3: When does each new Supreme Court term begin?).

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. They provide the client with some certainty about the cost of legal services and lawyers with more financial stability and consistency in taking on client matters.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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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. Ferguson v.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this case, the Georgian Court of Appeal dealt with competing claims from a couple who married in New York and had their matrimonial domicile in South Africa. The wife, domiciled in Georgia, USA, argued for the application of the matrimonial property regime of South Africa – their only (though temporary) common matrimonial domicile.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The district court dismissed Wilson’s lawsuit, holding that Wilson had not shown that he had actually been injured by the censure because he could still perform his official duties and speak publicly. Therefore, the district judge reasoned, Wilson lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Legal experts on CNN and MSNBC seemed to appear like crisis counselors after the acquittal to assure viewers that all was well because Trump can be clearly prosecuted and convicted. For weeks, the airwaves have been packed with legal experts assuring hosts that Trump clearly committed not just impeachable but criminal incitement.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

After the court ruled that Congress could access the records (over a solo dissent from Thomas), The Washington Post and CBS revealed that Thomas’ wife, Ginni, had repeatedly urged President Donald Trump’s chief of staff to negate the election results in the fall of 2020. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.,

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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. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. Cissy had assisted with the case by transcribing the legal briefs.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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. Today, 44 states and the District of Columbia have laws aiming to protect fetal development from drugs or alcohol. Case starts with visit to doctor.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

The problem for Democrats is that not only are voter-identification laws popular with voters but are likely to be upheld by the courts, along with other provisions dictating conditions for voting. Absent a federal takeover of elections, laws like the one in Georgia are likely to be upheld. In McPherson v. 4) is equally comprehensive.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Russell Covey, a professor at Georgia State University College of Law who has studied plea bargaining, has outlined how this sentence “ceiling” tied to the best plea offer could work in practice. Whether or not a defendant trusts the prosecutor, district attorneys would be legally bound to keep their word, which can be enforced by judges.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is not exactly the context that counsel would want when seeking to hold CNN liable for defamatory comments in a difficult legal action. In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice Warren wrote a concurrence that extended the ruling in New York Times v. The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Grimm , leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that a Virginia school district violated federal law when it barred students from using the restrooms that align with their gender identities. An immigration judge ordered their deportation, and the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld that ruling.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists. 10] See Suneal Bedi & William C.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Days was a member of the Yale Law faculty for more than three decades and led the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster from 1997 to 2011. Even if she had never become a judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a giant of the legal profession. In June, the court ruled in R.G. &

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

On March 1, the federal defendants filed their opposition to the motion to stay the mandate, arguing that the Supreme Court was unlikely to grant the petition, “much less reverse this Court’s judgment,” because the Ninth Circuit had applied settled precedent. Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Georgia , No. Azar , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance.

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