JURIST

JUNE 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Wednesday that Pennsylvania public school officials violated the First Amendment when they suspended a high school cheerleader for posting offensive images on Snapchat.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in PennEast Pipeline Co. PennEast Pipeline obtained a certificate to build a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and sought to exercise its federal eminent domain authority by taking public land in New Jersey. I urge the feds to take another look at this harmful proposal.”.

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ABA Journal

JULY 18, 2023

It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month.

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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 Pennsylvania case. Constitution.

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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. Ritter went to state court to challenge that decision. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit reversed.

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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). However, weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier made to a research firm, Fusion GPS, as “legal fees” among the $5.6

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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.”. Katherine Rohde is a J.D.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A suburban Philadelphia court clerk exceeded their legal authority when adding more than $1.37 million in attorney fees and costs to a $34,224 judgment in a contract dispute between a father and son over ownership of a manufacturing company, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Friday.

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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. He has a stellar legal background in both academia and practice. It promised to use the money for one purpose but did not.” Here is the opinion: Ninivaggi 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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. percent of federal criminal cases in 1962, but just over 2 percent in 2015, effectively turning trials into what former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called “a system of pleas, not a system of trials.” justice system.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. They provide the client with some certainty about the cost of legal services and lawyers with more financial stability and consistency in taking on client matters.

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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. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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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. Laufer , the justices will consider when a self-appointed civil rights “tester” has a legal right to bring a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

In Holloway’s case, the district court ruled that the ban was unconstitutional as applied to Holloway, who argued that he was not the type of “unvirtuous citizen” who has historically been disarmed because, among other things, his offense was a nonviolent misdemeanor for which his sentence was less than one year. Holloway v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

The impulse to penalize online speech implicates well-established legal protections for speakers that, at times, are being pushed to their limits and beyond,” he writes. The Court ruled 8-1 that the suspension violated Levy’s First Amendment rights. “It The full article can be accessed here.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The first sides with Promptu on claim construction – remanding the case back to the Pennsylvania district court for further development. The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure allow parties to incorporate by reference certain materials rather than reproducing them. This post will focus on the second case. 28(a)(viii).

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2022

Similarly, the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Joint Ethics Op. 2007-300 points out that while the Model Rules are silent about notification timing, the prudent approach is to not notify clients until the firm has been informed, “absent circumstances that would compromise the interests of the client.” Conduct 4-5.8(c)(1)

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Instead, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld “general jurisdiction” over Cooper on the ground that Cooper, by registering as a foreign corporation in Georgia, had consented to suit in Georgia as a condition of doing business in the state. Animal Legal Defense Fund. Animal Legal Defense Fund , 21-760. Next up is Kelly v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

I have long been a vocal critic of the theory, which I view as historically and legally unfounded. 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. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” In Brandenburg v. I hope that she does.

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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. Circuit in 1989.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

Yet, a year ago, various legal experts declared that Trump should be charged based on his speech and his delay in calling for protesters to leave Capitol Hill. Indeed, many of the same legal experts reappeared to offer assurances that Trump can still be frog marched to the hoosegow. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. For the next five years, O’Connor juggled caring for her children with a hodgepodge of legal jobs, ranging from grading bar exams to bankruptcy appointments.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Under Clinton, Days was initially seen as a potential candidate for a seat on the Supreme Court. But he became the center of a political firestorm after he told the court that it should not affirm the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who was found guilty of possessing sexually explicit videotapes of minors. The George H.W.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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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.” She blamed the kid as “old enough to … follow the rules.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The court also denied motions to transfer the action to the District of Wyoming, where a challenge to the Waste Prevention Rule is pending. The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action. C20134963 (Ariz.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Second Circuit agreed with the district court that the plaintiff lacked standing because he failed to allege an injury in fact since he “never explained why he had any legal right to have the document distributed.” Federal Court in Washington Upheld Forest Restoration Plan. EPA’s brief is due December 15. Williams , No.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

According to Bloomberg, “The court-supervised restructuring allows the business to keep operating, and thus avoid the calamitous and sometimes tearful impact on brides that often accompanies the collapse of wedding retailers.”. The expansion took “a heavy financial toll” and significantly increased operating expenses, court papers stated.

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