SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a man on death row in Texas can have his pastor touch him and pray out loud while he is being executed. Texas rejected his request, citing security concerns and arguing that he made the request too late. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Reed’s case raises a statute of limitations question about whether such a claim can be brought at the end of state court litigation or at the moment a trial court denied DNA testing. How the Supreme Court rules could impact other death row inmates across the country seeking to test new evidence.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday night took a step that anti-abortion activists have hoped for, and abortion-rights supporters have feared, since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg nearly a year ago. The Texas legislature passed the law as part of an effort to undercut the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Share On Tuesday the justices will hear oral argument in the case of Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed , who is seeking DNA testing for evidence that he believes will clear him. In 2009, the Supreme Court ruled in District Attorney’s Office v. Reed has consistently maintained that he is innocent.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

A new company is formed, Company B, a Texas LLC. About 20 days after Company B is formed, Company A assigns its four patents to Company B, with an agreement that gives Company B the rights to sue for patent infringement only in the district court for the Western District of Texas. But that is not what the district court did.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But the spotlight on the case became even more intense earlier this month, when the Supreme Court turned down a request to block the enforcement of a Texas law that prohibits abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. 1 argument date in the Mississippi case was part of the Supreme Court’s release of its December argument calendar.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Transfer motions under § 1404(a) are a common tactic in patent litigation, particularly for California-based tech companies sued in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. When defendants lose those motions—as they often do in Texas—they frequently seek immediate review in the Federal Circuit by petitioning for a writ of mandamus.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

As a statistical matter , a case that the Supreme Court repeatedly relists is more likely to be the subject of an opinion respecting denial or — where existing precedent is clear — a summary reversal or vacatur. Case in point: Texas v. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State. Texas , 21-6001.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

Chao was a patent attorney and patent litigator for 20 years before becoming a professor and I have long valued his insight. Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. Moreover, individual court rules are now requiring greater transparency.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We deal with deadlines, court rules, and client demands, adding to daily pressures to perform. Mary Mendoza is a remote paralegal for the firm of Johnston Clem Gifford PLLC in Dallas, Texas which specializes in representing financial institutions and corporate plaintiff litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

On Friday, the justices agreed to decide whether the Nollan / Dolan test applies to a California man’s challenge to a development fee, or whether – as a California appeals court ruled – the fee is instead immune from such review because it was authorized by legislation. A federal appeals court ruled that Fikre’s case was not moot.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the House of Representatives may vote by proxy, when the statute of limitations begins for state prisoners seeking DNA testing, a football coach’s post-game prayer and Texas’ new anti-abortion law. In Skinner v.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Those rules prevent expert witnesses from “stat[ing] an opinion” about whether someone had a mental state or condition relevant to a criminal charge. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed Diaz’s conviction. Relying on a prior 9th Circuit decision, the court ruled that the DHS agent’s testimony complied with evidentiary rules.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Texas , 21-6001. A short explanation of relists is available here. Goertz , 21-442. relisted after the Feb.

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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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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the absence of oversight boards and civil litigation, criminal charges against prosecutors and ethics board disciplinary measures are the only means of incentivizing appropriate prosecutorial actions. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. Certify Compliance.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. Federal courts have not traditionally entertained that kind of lawsuit; indeed, the States cite no precedent for a lawsuit like this. 1231(a)(2) ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In October, the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion pill mifepristone will continue to be widely accessible as the ongoing appeals process takes place. The Supreme Court ruling keeps mifepristone widely available during ongoing litigation. Mifepristone, approved in 2000, is used broadly to end pregnancies.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No. 17-1145 (D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. One can always litigate such a claim as a per quod case where defamation occurs by reference to extrinsic facts.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Share Nearly six weeks after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging a Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state, the justices on Friday limited – but did not fully eliminate – the ability of abortion providers to continue their challenge in the lower courts. The Texas law, known as S.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. In 2015, Harvard asked the district court to put the proceedings on hold until the Supreme Court issued its decision in a challenge to the consideration of race in the admissions process at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

On March 2, a jury in the Western District of Texas awarded VLSI $2.18 The court allowed the public to listen to pubic portions of the trial by telephone. A ruling in Intel’s favor may have made future royalties unavailable. As it happened the court ruled in VLSI’s favor on this point.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 11, 2022

Supreme Court ruling in a related matter, where the Court affirmed a decision from a U.S. district court enjoining the NCAA from limiting universities from providing student-athletes with certain education-related benefits. [1] 2] The Court issued its decision on June 21, 2021. quoting NCAA Antitrust Litig. ,

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows appealed a court ruling Friday that delayed a judgment on whether the removal of former president Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot was valid under the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. State law has made a difference in officials decisions regarding the issue.

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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.” Police were called to his home in Texas over a possible murder.

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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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. marshals followed Jade Benning, a 48-year-old mother of three with jet-black hair, as she picked up her youngest son from school in Austin, Texas. Three days later, he taught a 911 call analysis course in Texas.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

Le Tote revealed in a court filing that its companies reported revenue of about $253.5 Tailored Brands filed for Chapter 11 on August 2 in the Southern District of Texas. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, Texas, Neiman Marcus says that it is aiming to eliminate $4 billion of its more-than-$5 billion in debt. million in 2019.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The earlier cases in which the court took that unusual step involved Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law and a religious-liberty claim from a man on death row.). A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday declined to immediately resolve an attempt by 14 states to revive litigation over a controversial Trump-era immigration rule after the Biden administration declined to defend it in court. Ten days after the court dismissed the case , it was the states’ turn to come to the Supreme Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Circuit Found Deficiencies in Climate Change and Environmental Justice Analyses for Texas LNG Export Terminals. and non-U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 this week in favor of death row inmate John Henry Ramirez, who challenged a rule barring his pastor from audibly praying and physically touching him while he is being executed. Argument and “counterargument,” not litigation, are the “weapons available” for resolving this dispute.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The justices refused to hear the case of Kristopher Love , a Black man who was sentenced to death in Texas for his role in the 2015 murder-for-hire of Dr. Kendra Hatcher. The state court, Sotomayor observed, never addressed Love’s contention that he had been deprived of his constitutional right to an impartial jury.

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