JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 14, 2021

The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted drug dealer who challenged the forfeiture of his Land Rover before the U.S. Supreme Court should…

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday affirmed a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana blocking the White House’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The ruling results from a 2-1 decision from the three-judge panel.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. Both lawsuits ask the court to immediately halt implementation of the plan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 15, 2022

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Indiana asks Supreme Court to speed process so state can put its strict abortion law into effect (Ariane de Vogue, CNN). Farah, E&E News).

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Shortly after the justices denied his appeal, Bourgeois was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reinstated his execution in October. He was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m. A panel of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Estelle v. In recent months, prison uprisings in California, Missouri and Indiana have drawn attention to the medical neglect, abusive guards and prolonged isolation that pervades prisons.

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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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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2021

police departments is behind an “aggressive” effort to prevent changes in use-of-force standards, according to a forthcoming paper in the Indiana Law Journal. By rejecting policies like de-escalation and rules prohibiting chokeholds?strategies A little-known private consulting firm that drafts policies for thousands of U.S.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 28, 2022

subdivision (c) and rule 8.392(b) of the California Rules of Court, or whether the matter should be remanded to the superior court so it may in the first instance decide whether the petition or its claims are successive under section 1509, subdivision (d), and if so whether to issue a certificate of appealability under section 1509.1,

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The US Supreme Court refused to hear a case Monday that sought to reverse a lower court ruling allowing same-sex couples to be listed as birth parents on a child’s birth certificate. Hendersen , was appealed from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The case, Box v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

There is an interesting lawsuit out of Indiana where Indianapolis Metro Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer is suing the National Football League (NFL) for defamation after the NFL claimed that his shooting of an African American man was due to “systemic racism.” Screenshot from federal complaint.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

The court ordered additional briefings, but the lawyer then missed multiple deadlines, claiming earlier orders were lost among numerous notifications on his mobile phone. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules. Today law firms have multiple options for automated rules and calendar management.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Two lower courts ruled against them, prompting the workers to seek emergency relief at the Supreme Court last week. ” The court has turned away other emergency challenges to COVID vaccine mandates recently. Refusing to grant religious exemptions, he wrote, “borders on the irrational.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

.” The health care workers can refile if circumstances change or if the appellate court rules against them. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a decision by Oct. He cited the Supreme Court’s 1905 ruling in Jacobson v. 29, when the vaccine requirement is scheduled to go into effect.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday that a man should not lose his parental rights because of strict parole conditions imposed by another state. In 2014, the father, who is not named in the opinion, was convicted of two felonies involving sexual conduct with a 14-year-old in Indiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Currently, six states provide for criminal juries of six or eight jurors: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Utah.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

(Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) The ‘Sleeping Giant’ Case that Could Upend Jack Smith’s Prosecution of Trump (Kimberly Wehle, Politico) Maine judge delays Trump ballot decision until Supreme Court ruling (Patrick Marley, The Washington Post) Supreme Court lets win stand for trans student in Indiana bathroom ban case (Chris Geidner, Law Dork) (..)

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. In Indiana, in 2015, Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide. If the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

In one exchange, Harpster told Lewis that he had spent two hours on the phone with some officers and a prosecutor in Indiana. But when prosecutors cross the line and intentionally circumvent court rules for evidence standards, he said, that’s cause for concern. Riley said again and again that he thought his brother was dead.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The issue was a technical one: whether the government was permitted to administer Higgs’ execution in accordance with the law of Indiana, even though Higgs was convicted in Maryland and his sentencing order did not specify that he could be executed under Indiana law. Procedurally, the court’s ruling was highly unusual.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In early November, the district court ruled that UNC’s use of race in admissions was consistent with Supreme Court precedents. The non-profit has now also filed a petition in a challenge to the University of North Carolina that it hopes can serve as a companion to the Harvard case. The case is Does v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Under the Endangered Species Act, the court vacated the FWS’s biological opinion because the incidental take statement lacked “the requisite specificity of mitigation measures for the polar bear” and because the take finding for the polar bear was arbitrary and capricious. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c. , BP p.l.c. ,

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. The Supreme Court still overturned the conviction. The reason is that while the crime is not clear, the case law is.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Diego Morales, the Indiana Secretary of State supporting the petitioner, emphasized that he believed that “the American people should choose who their next leader is, not the court.” If somebody is powerful, if somebody is popular, then we don’t have rule of law anymore.”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Since 2005, “appellate courts have shown an increasing tendency to grant immunity in excessive force cases,” according to a Reuters investigation. Appellate courts ruled in favor of police receiving qualified immunity in 57% of reviewed cases involving allegations of excessive use of force between 2017 and 2019, the report showed.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. The Supreme Court still overturned the conviction. The court has consistently rejected these types of arguments as a threat to free speech in our society.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected such liability despite the use of inflammatory or even violent words. Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled that even a Ku Klux Klan leader calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

While I am a critic of Trump’s speech and actions on that day, I still believe that the the court is completely wrong on the First Amendment. The Supreme Court nevertheless overturned his conviction. In Brandenburg v. Likewise, in Hess v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

They knew that a court would throw out such an indictment and, even if they could find a willing judge, any conviction would be thrown out on appeal. The Supreme Court nevertheless overturned his conviction. In Brandenburg v. Likewise, in Hess v.

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