Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court reversed.

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Mondaq

JUNE 13, 2022

In this appeal, the Eighth Appellate District affirmed the trial court's decision, agreeing that Ohio's Uniform Trade Secret Act broadly preempts not only causes of action for misappropriation of trade secrets but also causes of.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. That may be the most important sentence the court has ever published. Ohio and Miranda v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 30, 2021

Ohio (a 1969 case that we can discussed much in terms of “violent speech”), the Court struck down an Ohio law prohibiting public speech that was deemed as promoting illegal conduct. Ironically, the was a class discussion on free speech and racism. Swers was quoting Clarence Brandenburg from Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether those officers are entitled to qualified immunity. City of Parma, Ohio. Novak was acquitted at trial. In Novak v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Image from Supreme Court Petition. City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Now the Court has accepted a different parody case involving Jack Daniels where the company is suing the maker of dog chew toys. The case is Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. 2d 341 (9th Cir.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. She said she disguised 911 call analysis in court by “getting creative … without calling it ‘science.’”. “I

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

Share In a short procedural order, the Supreme Court on Monday morning threw out a lower-court ruling allowing a state court clerk to be sued for telling a pregnant teenager that her parents must be notified of their child’s desire to seek an abortion without their consent. Both a federal district court in Missouri and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

During his time as an associate justice from 1877 to 1911, he broke with his colleagues in some of the most consequential – and infamous – rulings that the court has ever issued. Later, Robert sent John a series of letters offering political advice and sharing his efforts to promote John for a Supreme Court appointment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Creative Commons, NYC Manhattan Skyline.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Ohio , where the Supreme Court stressed that even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. These civil lawsuits actually raise claims like the infliction of emotional distress that were directly and unequivocally rejected by the Supreme Court. Trump’s Jan.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

So Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading authorities on constitutional law, decided to write a book focusing on how the Supreme Court has (or has not) addressed the challenge of policing throughout its judicial history. One, ‘Is public pressure in this area of life going to change the Supreme Court?” And I think the answer is no.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. The House has decided to subpoena them all and let God (and the courts) sort them out. The storm of secret subpoenas also seems to run against the thrust of recent Supreme Court decision, Trump v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Judge Wallace rejected the use of the amendment to prevent voters from voting for Trump in the 2024 election, declaring that “[t]he Court holds there is scant direct evidence regarding whether the presidency is one of the positions subject to disqualification.” Accordingly, “[t]he Court orders the Secretary of State to place Donald J.

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