JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2022

New York has long been the source of major litigation over gun control. That includes the possible loss before the Supreme Court in a pending major gun rights case. ” The New York law could offer an important test of the outer boundaries of this right after the Court rules in the pending case.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 18, 2021

“Supreme Court Limits Human Rights Suits Against Corporations; Six citizens of Mali had sued Nestlé USA and Cargill, accusing the companies of profiting from child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Sarah Palin (R) against the New York Times, a lawsuit that could have far reaching implications for defamation law in the United States. The trial concerns an editorial by the New York Times where it sought to paint Palin and other Republicans as inciting the earlier shooting. Sullivan standard. Sullivan.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” The court also held that the government’s longstanding failure to do so amounts to a violation of the constitutional right to privacy, but it denied that the right to same-sex marriage is constitutionally guaranteed. The appellant is Jimmy Sham Tsz Kit.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Donato, an attorney who represents the Buffalo, New York Catholic Diocese, indicated the state’s Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against his the church is no more than a “publicity stunt.” He also suggested it may have violated bankruptcy court rules that are in place to protect bankrupt entities.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2022

As predicted , the Supreme Court handed down a momentous opinion in favor of Second Amendment rights today in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. ” New York Gov. Hochul added “This is New York.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

and Kaufman, assistant professor at New York University School of Law, ,argue that prison law — the legal rules that structure the day-to-day realities of incarceration — relies on tropes to narrow incarcerees’ rights. Prisoners are illiterate; no, they can read, write, and litigate.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 22, 2023

A total of nine newly added cases involve two treaty jurisdictions – France (one case) and Vietnam (one case) – and seven non-treaty jurisdictions, namely, Australia (one case), Canada (one case), Germany (one case), New Zealand (one case), South Korea (one case), the UK (one case), and the US (one case). 99 Trade Co.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

There is an interesting ruling this week out of New York where a federal court has ruled in favor of a conservative student group alleging that the State University of New York at Binghamton has engaged in a pattern of censorship of conservative speakers and events. I disagree. See also id.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The court described the case as “an unprecedented case for any court, let alone a state court trial judge,” but concluded that it was “still a tort case” and “based exclusively on state law causes of action,” primarily failures to disclose, failures to warn, and deceptive marketing. Chevron Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

The district court ruled for Medical Marijuana and the other companies on Horn’s RICO claim. The companies came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to take up the case and weigh in.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights. Bruen, 142 S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. The ruling is based on 2022 Supreme Court ruling New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The case concerned Emmanuel Ayala, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the makings of a blockbuster case in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 14, 2022

Supreme Court ruled that U.S. courts may not help arbitral tribunals sitting abroad in the taking of evidence. This is because in the opinion of the Court, such an arbitral tribunal is not a „foreign or international tribunal“ in the sense of 28 U.S.C. Written by Matthias Lehmann, University of Vienna (Austria).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. Here is the column: With the arrival of Halloween, little children and litigators will again celebrate their favorite holiday.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

In the aftermath of the Rittenhouse verdict, figures on both sides of the case threatened new filings and investigations. It seems likely that the case will move into a new stage of litigation, particularly civil litigation. That includes wrongful death actions much like the litigation against O.J. Bond claims.

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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. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.

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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. After a federal appeals court reinstated Laufer’s lawsuit, Acheson went to the Supreme Court, which agreed in March to weigh in on whether Laufer can sue.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The state court, Sotomayor observed, never addressed Love’s contention that he had been deprived of his constitutional right to an impartial jury. Although that was done in Love’s case, she noted, it doesn’t help “if courts do not even consider claims of racial bias that litigants bring forward.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Share Melissa Murray refused to recant her view: The newly minted conservative court is poised to effect great change in the country. While ultimately the election did not result in litigation comparable to the 2000 case of Bush v. Similarly, what was notable in Fulton v.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It argued that these claims were not viable because the policy’s choice-of-law provision had designated New York as the governing law in the absence of applicable federal maritime law. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. The Third Circuit ruled in favor of Raiders.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

The massive verdict in favor of actor Johnny Depp yesterday constitutes a rare victory of a public figure under the difficult New York Times v. The defamation laws are far more advantageous for defendants in the UK and most plaintiffs try to litigate such claims in the U.S. YouTube screengrab. Sullivan standard for defamation.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed. The court of appeals refused, instead expediting argument. By a split vote, the 6th Circuit then reversed the lower courts’ rulings , concluding that the states were likely to win their appeals. The court thus allowed the laws go into effect.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There is now an important ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that could have enormous implications not just for the media but anyone who retweets stories or claims. The appellate panel ruled unanimously for Rep. Notably, Nunes sought to challenge New York Times v.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 847-880 (available here ) Brannigan, Neil “Resolving conflicts: establishing forum non conveniens in a new Hague jurisdiction convention”, Journal of Private International Law 18 (2022), pp. The Value of a New Judgments Convention for U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

While most Administrations tend to minimize such test cases to avoid creating bad precedent, the Biden Administration has litigated with an utter abandon — elevating political over legal considerations in litigation. In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. He is facing criminal charges in New York. It ruled that the Virginia courts would likely apply the California law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The justices did not act on several high-profile petitions for review on issues such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, the clash between religious freedom and LGBTQ rights, and a challenge to a New York regulation that requires employers to fund abortions through their employee health plans.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 21, 2022

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York State’s legislative bodies have crafted new laws to help prevent tenants’ evictions. 4] Landlords sued New York State’s Chief Administrative Judge, County Sheriffs, and other officials throughout the state— challenging CEEFPA on constitutional grounds. [5]

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

President and Fellows of Harvard College , the litigants cite a study finding that Asian Americans needed SAT scores that were about 140 points higher than white students; the gap with admitted African American and Hispanic students is even greater. New York topped the per capita spending, at $24,040 per kid.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

First and second instance courts decided in favour of Z. the Supreme Court ruled that the Athens Court of Appeal failed to examine two grounds of appeal raised by M. The case was sent back to the appellate court [Supreme Court nr. After several years of litigation in both federal and state courts, Z.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I received emails that I was defending a pedophile and abuser by simply noting that the dispute could lead to litigation given Weaver’s denials. With 21 men already on record, litigation would be brutal. I have never met Schmidt or said anything in support of him. Now to the merits.

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