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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, the court – at least for now – declined to block the law despite the fact that it defies Roe and Casey , the future of which are squarely at issue in a separate case , to be argued in the upcoming 2021-22 term, involving a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

Plaintiff also testified that he printed the power of attorney form online, and that anytime he presented the document, he stated that he was not sure of its legality. 34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

That changed this week, with announcements from different parts of the federal bureaucracy aimed at supporting and protecting reproductive health in the new landscape created by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. For legal authority, HHS is relying on the ??1986

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

David Goodman and Ruth Graham of The New York Times report that “ Small Court Victories Change Nothing for Women Seeking Abortions in Texas; A Texas statute that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy was seemingly undercut by two court rulings, but the reality on the ground has not changed.” ” David G.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to the Espy File and DPIC , there have been more than 16,000 people in colonial and post-colonial America executed in a legal process since 1608. The DPIC reports that only four states—Mississippi, Utah, South Carolina and Oklahoma—allow for execution by firing squad as an alternative method of execution. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for a major ruling next year on abortion – one that could upend the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. Casey , in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus becomes viable. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit a long-simmering tension between legal protections for LGBTQ people and the rights of business owners who oppose same-sex marriage. But compelling the organizers to include the group would violate the First Amendment, the court ruled. The case, 303 Creative v.

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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. The case of Lizette Herrera, a 26-year-old South Texas woman, is already well known. If the U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

Other states, such as Nebraska and Oklahoma , have succeeded in enacting legislation that defines sex on reproductive terms, and Mississippi is currently attempting to do the same. An Alabama Senate committee advanced a comparable bill in February.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2021

Legal challenges have argued that such lengthy sentences handed down to young people amount to de facto life-without-parole terms. The ruling, in Jones v. Seventy-five New Mexicans are currently serving sentences longer than 15 years for crimes they committed before they were 18, according to the Coalition.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. Mississippi v. A new case on public funding and religious education.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. That does not mean the court will do so, but it could substantially reduce Roe’s hold over states. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. Board of Education. 12, 1935 – Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As both a government lawyer and in private practice, Douglas Huron spent his legal career advocating on behalf of workers. In that case, Ann Hopkins was denied a promotion because she was perceived as “pushy” and “too macho,” and the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the company’s actions violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , involves a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks. Mississippi and its supporters have asked the court to overturn Roe and Casey. In its filing on Thursday in the DOJ’s lawsuit , Texas argued that the federal government lacks a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. That is earlier than previously allowed by the court, but the United States is one of only seven among the world’s 198 countries to allow abortions after 20 weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, that a majority of the court was ready and willing to roll back abortion rights. The only real question was how far the justices might go. And in West Virginia v.

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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. The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06 As a public figure, he is subject to the standard created in New York Times v. He prevailed at trial.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. Williams , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And even if the court does not formally overturn Roe and Casey , a decision weakening those precedents would permit new abortion restrictions, perhaps including bans on some early-stage abortions. In Dobbs , Mississippi and its supporters are urging the court to answer that question with a full-throated “no.”. Katie Barlow).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. The court left S.B. A pivotal vote in religion cases. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. At the oral argument in Dobbs v.

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