Above The Law

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ohio Supreme Court rules that "business interruption insurance" isn't so much "insurance" for "business interruptions." Supreme Court will return to announcing opinions live from the bench. Supreme Court will return to announcing opinions live from the bench. Bloomberg Law ]. Washington Post ].

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The court is asked to consider whether an unnamed law firm specializing in international tax was allowed to withhold documents in a grand jury proceeding on the basis of attorney-client privilege. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar? The story appears far from over, though.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 2, 2021

“They write the reports, they give the statements, and other people’s accounts are not taken seriously,” Philip Stinson , a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told the Post. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. But when it comes to using deadly force, officers have vast discretion.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

“They write the reports, they give the statements, and other people’s accounts are not taken seriously,” Philip Stinson , a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told the Post. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. But when it comes to using deadly force, officers have vast discretion.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio. But Ohio courts upheld Twyford’s conviction and death sentence, rejecting claims that his counsel performed so poorly that Twyford was denied his constitutional rights. In his view, the court rules limiting discovery thus do not apply.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

The use of fines and fees to generate revenue for local justice systems constitutes a “predatory” relationship between law enforcement and citizens that violates the due process protections of the Constitution, according to a Tennessee Law Review paper. Supreme Court Rulings.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Shoop , Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed her first-ever opinion since her elevation, writing that the Ohio Supreme Court had applied too stringent a standard of materiality in reviewing death-row prisoner Davel Chinn’s claim that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory evidence. And in Chinn v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Natural Resources Defense Council , holding that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of the laws it administers if those laws are ambiguous. A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial. Echoing his opinion earlier this year in Kennedy v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

Human Rights Campaign Monday condemned Utah Governor Spencer Cox for signing SB16 , a law prohibiting healthcare professionals from providing hormonal treatment to minors who were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the law was signed. The law also prohibits doctors from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Recently, a California court ruled that misgendering patients is protected despite a landmark LGBTQ+ rights bill.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2022

Some jurisdictions establish a more bright-line rule requiring notice to the organization before communication with clients. For instance, Ohio Supreme Court Ethics Op. Rule of Prof. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Nevertheless, ABA Formal Ethics Op. Conduct 4-5.8(c)(1)

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. Garner and other case law. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m.,

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Cooper’s activities in Georgia had no connection to McCall’s claims against Cooper, meaning that Georgia courts lacked “specific jurisdiction” over Cooper. Next up is Kelly v.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. Laws, rules, regulations, and opinions vary by jurisdiction. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some trademark fun, looking at how law and trademarks can collide. And now, back to the law. The insurance company thought it was no quacking matter and filed a lawsuit in an Ohio district court. Register here today! One Quacky Dispute.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

However, in 1908’s Ex parte Young , the Supreme Court allowed suits against state officials, in lieu of states themselves, for violations of federal law. After New Jersey passed legislation in 2018 to withdraw from the compact, the waterfront commission sued the New Jersey governor to prevent him from enforcing the law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. The bill is presumptively unconstitutional in my view, but the Court made an unholy mess of this area in its rulings on obscenity.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Make it sing!”. I was wrong.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

To enforce these laws, Congress created the SEC. It granted the agency the power to regulate investors through either lawsuits in federal court or internal hearings in front of an administrative law judge, or ALJ. Under federal law, investors may challenge only final internal decisions by the SEC in the courts of appeals.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. In 1855, the Supreme Court ruled in South v. In 1982, in Harlow v. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 7, 2022

I spent 24 days behind bars, including the six-and-a-half days it took to extradite me from Ohio to South Florida, 1,100 miles from my home. Jamie Benjamin and Gary Edinger of the Law Offices of Benjamin, Aaronson, Edinger & Patanzo , in Ft. Ron Kleiner of the Law Office of Ron M. But it also strikes a deeply personal chord.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court issued another important decision on a pressing health care issue. It’s a seemingly technical opinion interpreting a single phrase of a federal law on the prescription of controlled substances, and it garnered little attention amid the court’s end-of-term sturm und drang.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to “place arbitration agreements on an equal footing with other contracts.” In Concepcion , the claim was that California state law treated arbitration contracts less favorably than other contracts. Ohio, ex rel. Yost , 21-312.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference last week, the justices also turned down – over a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito – a request from Ohio to reinstate the conviction and death sentence of an inmate who was convicted of killing his cellmate. The IRS fined Bittner $2.72

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

The bill explains, however, that individuals with “intersex conditions” or “differences in sex development” must be accommodated in compliance with state and federal law. Alabama is one of 23 states , including Louisiana and Texas , that have enacted laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to put arbitration agreements “on an equal footing with other contracts.” Concepcion involved a state law that treated arbitration clauses unfavorably. Ohio, ex rel. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 13, 2022

At sentencing, the district court determined that the defendant’s sentence should be enhanced because the defendant “relocated, or participated in relocating, a fraudulent scheme to another jurisdiction to evade law enforcement or regulatory officials.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

Share In a short procedural order, the Supreme Court on Monday morning threw out a lower-court ruling allowing a state court clerk to be sued for telling a pregnant teenager that her parents must be notified of their child’s desire to seek an abortion without their consent.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The earlier cases in which the court took that unusual step involved Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law and a religious-liberty claim from a man on death row.). One set of challengers is a group of 27 states, led by Ohio, who argue that the mandate is “nothing more than a pretext for increasing the number of vaccinated Americans.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

He warned that “we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loath and believe to be frought (sic) with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that at an immediate check is required to save the country.”

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Examples of Junk Science in Forensics and Law Enforcement Tracing the spread of junk science through the criminal justice system can be difficult. Others present their analyses to prosecutors or enlist Tracy Harpster, the program’s creator and a retired deputy police chief from Ohio, to consult on cases.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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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. The specific question at issue in Mazo v. 6 attacks on the U.S.

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