SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2021

After his appeals were unsuccessful, Whatley sought post-conviction relief, arguing that his lawyer’s failure to object to his shackling deprived him of his constitutional right to effective assistance from his lawyer. Nearly three months after Inauguration Day, the justices vacated a ruling by the U.S. Whatley argued that U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. ” __ Another case in the court is a cautionary tale about those creating their own haunted houses. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The court faced but did not decide the issue of whether to overrule Smith in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; a similar question was presented in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis , but when the court granted review in that case, it revised the question presented to avoid that issue.)

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

NLRB lawyers are arguing that Whole Foods must allow workers to wear “Black Lives Matter” masks at work, suggesting — in effect — that Bezos should start with the worker and work forward by allowing them to advocate for social change. That, of course, could change — the minute an NLRB lawyer shows up wearing a MAGA hat.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But the lower courts ruled, and the federal government contends, that the “safety value” is only available to defendants who do not have any of the indicators. Great Lakes went to federal court in Pennsylvania, seeking a ruling that the insurance policy was invalid. Raiders Retreat filed five counterclaims.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Share Lawyers for Colorado’s Republican Party came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to overturn a ruling by that state’s highest court that would leave former President Donald Trump off Colorado’s primary ballot in 2024 because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. And on Dec.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2021

Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court ruled that although students have First Amendment rights while they are at school, school officials can regulate speech that would substantially disrupt the school’s work. Pennsylvania Democratic Party & Republican Party of Pennsylvania v.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford. She stayed there until 1954, when she moved to Germany with her husband, who served as an Army lawyer. In Germany, O’Connor worked as a civilian lawyer for the Army Quartermaster Corps.

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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). New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Clinton lawyer Marc Elias, with the law firm of Perkins Coie, denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier.

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