HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“Pennsylvania Tied Vote Decided By Drawing of Lots after Court Ruling that Undated But Timely-Arriving Mail Ballots Had to Be Counted under the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

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JURIST

MAY 31, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday issued an order temporarily blocking the counting of some Pennsylvania mail-in ballots that do not have a handwritten date on their declaration forms. While the immediate impact of the Court’s order is unknown, it could affect each ballot’s individual validity.

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JURIST

JANUARY 8, 2021

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found on Thursday that the Victims’ Rights Amendment— passed by voters in November 2019—violated Article XI , Section 1 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Overall, the proposed amendment did not satisfy this constitutional requirement.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2023

The US Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit Tuesday ruled against Adelphia Gateway, LLC (Adelphia) in a challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Hearing Board’s jurisdiction to hear challenges to Adelphia’s planned natural gas compressor project.

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HowAppealing

JULY 21, 2021

“Amazon must pay Pennsylvania warehouse workers for time spent waiting for security screening, state Supreme Court rules”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report. ” Today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania , on certified questions from the U.S. .”

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday rejected an emergency appeal that would have prevented the counting of 257 mail-in votes in an election for a Pennsylvania judgeship. The votes, which could tip the scale in the election, are contested on the grounds that their envelopes were not dated in violation of state election law.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 9, 2022

“Supreme Court Allows Undated Ballots in Pennsylvania Election; A state law required mailed ballots to be accompanied by a signed and dated declaration, but a federal appeals court ruled that undated declarations sufficed”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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JURIST

MAY 3, 2023

The Pennsylvania House passed a bill Tuesday that would ban discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression in employment and housing. Clayton County , the United States Supreme Court ruled that an employer cannot discriminate against an individual because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the Second Amendment of the Constitution protects non-violent offenders from federal firearm bans. The case resulted from Bryan Range’s appeal from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Circuit Judge Thomas M.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2023

The US Supreme Court Tuesday released a unanimous opinion holding that certain abandoned financial instruments that are similar to money orders may be recovered by the state in which they were purchased. The post US Supreme Court rules against Delaware in $400M interstate unclaimed property dispute appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. history of state courts invalidating laws that violate state constitutions.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 13, 2021

’s Supreme Court ruled on election law. ” Sam Dunklau of NPR affiliate WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report. “Some in power are still mad that Pa.’s Here’s why it matters now.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case. The North Carolina dispute, Moore v. Constitution.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 13, 2022

“Federal appeals court ruling allows parents of murdered student’s wrongful death suit against Millersville U to proceed”: Dan Nephin has this front page article in today’s edition of LNP of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Pennsylvania county to count mail-in ballots that do not comply with a state law requiring voters to write the date on the ballot’s envelope. A state appeals court ruled that, under state law, the 257 undated ballots could not be counted.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2022

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that Allegheny County DA Stephen Zappala violated his duty when he failed to review private criminal complaints against Pittsburgh’s assault weapons ban and compelled Zappala to do so.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a lower-court ruling in a Pennsylvania election dispute that the losing candidate conceded three and a half months ago. Tuesday’s brief order granted a request by David Ritter, a candidate in a 2021 race for a judgeship in a local Pennsylvania court.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 12, 2021

“Philadelphia Can’t Open Drug Safe-Injection Site, Federal Appeals Court Rules; Nonprofit can seek review from full court after three-judge decision”: Jon Kamp of The Wall Street Journal has this report. court says.”

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

Petitioner Mallory sued Norfolk in Pennsylvania after he was exposed to carcinogens by the corporation and developed cancer. To operate in Pennsylvania, foreign corporations must “be incorporated in Pennsylvania, have its principal place of business in Pennsylvania, or have consented to the exercise of jurisdiction.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on Friday that three Georgia citizens under 21 years old have standing to sue county probate judges over the state law that disallows issuing carry licenses to people under 21. Thus, Brasher remanded the case back to the district court for further proceedings.

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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

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The court found that, in their 2021 Congressional Plan, the Democrats not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Since a 1976 Supreme Court ruling , incarcerated individuals are the only group of people in the United States to have a constitutional right to health care. The answer, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers Katherine Rohde, Taylor Ross, and Caitlyn Kim , “is not so clear.”. Caitlyn Kim is a J.D.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

as a result of Supreme Court rulings, but it has helped to contribute to a broken system, speakers told a panel organized by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. and local law enforcement around the country have voluntarily started to record.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The question presented was whether, under federal admiralty law, a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract can be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the “strong public policy” of the U.S. state whose law is displaced. LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. The Democratic National Committee challenged the two Arizona laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

Share A pipeline developer may use the federal government’s power of eminent domain to seize property controlled by New Jersey so that it can build a natural-gas pipeline through the state, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 5-4 vote. The case, PennEast Pipeline Co.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2021

Becerra and Thomas More Law Center v. Becerra , which the court consolidated for one hour of argument, the justices will hear a pair of challenges to a policy of the California attorney general’s office that requires charities to disclose the names and addresses of their major donors. In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

” Bibas was a respected law professor at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the bench after a nomination by President Trump in 2017. If the parents are right, they suffered a simpler injury: The school wrongly took their money. It promised to use the money for one purpose but did not.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

The case had been on hold for nearly a year, waiting for the court to issue its ruling in Allen v. On June 8, a divided court ruled that the map drawn by Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Morefield Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law. justice system. .” King is James P.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. Raiders Retreat Realty Co.

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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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2021

What is striking about the language is that the Court secures near unanimous decision by limiting the reach of decision. was a student at Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, who tied out for the school’s varsity cheerleading squad. The case involved a disgruntled cheerleader.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The decision further indicated that longstanding firearms bans for felons were “presumptively lawful.” In Folajtar’s case, both the district court and the 3rd Circuit rejected her argument that her nonviolent crime was not “serious” enough for the ban. Under 18 U.S.C. § Holloway v. Rosen and Folajtar v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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