The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Mississippi , the Supreme Court gave weight to such scientific evidence. Research on the teen brain has informed multiple landmark decisions. The Court acknowledged the tendency for the young to age out of problematic behaviors that result from “transient immaturity.”. Last month, however, the Court shifted on this in Jones v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. Zapata Off-Shore Co.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that uncashed MoneyGram checks are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act (FDA) and should be returned to the state where they were issued. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Keeping elderly offenders in prison until their deaths is expensive, too: the report found that Pennsylvania pays at least $122 million per year in care for people over 50 serving life without parole in the state’s prisons. At 9,802, the state imprisons more than twice the people serving LWP than the second-highest population in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rejects this defense, and so the district court in Ruan’s case only instructed the jury to decide whether Ruan’s actions were “not for a legitimate medical purpose” or “outside the usual course of professional medical practice” (the jury convicted Ruan). The district court, affirmed by the U.S.

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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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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to review the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that overturned entertainer Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Cosby appealed the decision, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction in June 2021.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Second, the court concluded that BLM should have calculated and considered total greenhouse emissions, instead of merely relying on comparisons of yearly emission rates.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week. In Pennsylvania v. Cosby , justices rebuffed a request from Pennsylvania prosecutors to revive sexual assault charges against Cosby. The Texas Supreme Court agreed for all but one of Doe’s claims.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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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. She said she disguised 911 call analysis in court by “getting creative … without calling it ‘science.’”. “I Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2021

On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Darrell Hemphill , who was convicted for the 2006 shooting death of a child, who was a passenger in a car that drove by a fight on a street in the Bronx. Share The Sixth Amendment gives a defendant in a criminal prosecution the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will vote to grant the last cases that will be argued this term (barring expedited briefing on some emergency matter). The court earlier asked for the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore drilling and production facility off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, finding that BOEM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. But in one of those cases, the court’s denial of review prompted two justices to object. The Supreme Court will meet this Friday to consider whether to grant review in a group of around 95 petitions and motions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. Supreme Court last year, challenging the state supreme court’s decision.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

He also testified that in all of the court decisions he reviewed regarding Trump’s claims, the Trump campaign did not make cogent claims of fraud. Gore , said that it would not have been possible for Trump to make up his 10,000 vote deficit in Arizona, or any other state, with a normal recount.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. The viability framework.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2022

Pennsylvania is less than 24 hours out from primary elections—and there are some major issues on the line right here on JURIST’s doorstep that have attracted national and even international attention. Pennsylvania primaries are a complicated beast to explain to in-state people, let alone out-of-state or out-of-country.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Supreme Court takes the bench in Trump v. Anderson, about whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in excluding former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. 6, 2021, and whose report was admitted into evidence by the Colorado trial court. (I Courts will review those decisions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

How does the Supreme Court possibly top the excitement of last Friday’s fourteen new grants — including grants in a few important First Amendment cases? With 10 new relists, including some cases that could be blockbusters if the court decides to take them. John Elwood reviews Monday’s relists. Abbott , 20-305. Munsingwear, Inc.

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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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