JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the heirs of Jewish art dealers cannot bring a lawsuit in US courts against Germany over the alleged forced sale of art and artifacts under the Nazi regime. The Supreme Court on Wednesday also issued a one-sentence opinion in Republic of Hungary v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2021

” The appeals court held that the intelligence agencies “logically and plausibly explained why the existence or nonexistence of responsive records is classified information.” These organizations submitted the requests in October 2018, shortly after Khashoggi’s murder.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Former President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court Thursday to block the release of certain documents to the House of Representatives January 6th Committee (“the Committee”). The post Trump requests Supreme Court to block January 6 document release appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a 5 t-4 vote, the US Supreme Court granted a request on Tuesday to temporarily stay a ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas that vacated a rule regarding “ghost guns” from the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial $6.6 Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that had put construction in the Jefferson National Forest, in southern Virginia, on hold while challenges from environmental groups to the construction continue.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2022

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Ciruit ruled Tuesday that the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee can access former president Donald Trump’s tax returns. The case has been ongoing since last year, with a lower court ruling for the committee in December.

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JURIST

AUGUST 26, 2021

” The appellate court upheld the ruling of the US District Court for the District of Columbia that, even when there is evidence of governmental misconduct, a “focused demonstration of need” is required to overcome the presidential communications privilege.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of Alexander Khochinsky’s suit against Poland for seeking his extradition over his possession of a painting allegedly taken from Poland by Nazi troops.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday stayed an order from the US District Court for the District of Columbia blocking Title 42, a health policy used to deny migrants and asylum-seekers at the US border. As a result, the court permanently enjoined the CDC and HHS from applying their Title 42 policies.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2022

In October 2021, the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the US “no longer has a legal basis to justify the continued detention,” having found that Gul had been an HIA member but not that of Al-Qaeda. The court ordered his release.

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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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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is the latest loss of the city, which continues to pass legislation that runs afoul of governing Supreme Court precedent. Ironically, the District was behind some of the greatest losses for gun control advocates. In District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “ Federal judge suggests national right to abortion exists after Supreme Court ruling; Clinton appointee questions whether 13th Amendment protects national right to abortion.” ” You can access today’s ruling of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders. Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. The ruling has since been appealed to the 5th Circuit Court. He did this based on a 2022 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 1, 2023

Natural Resources Defense Council , the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reversed.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith to decide, without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in, whether former President Donald Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump appealed to the U.S. 20, Trump lawyer D.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block the disclosure of his federal income tax returns to a congressional committee. Without the court’s intervention, the House Committee on Ways and Means is poised to obtain six years of tax returns for Trump and the companies he owns. Last week, the full D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Share In the final argument scheduled for its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s historic bid for criminal immunity. The court’s answer will determine not only whether Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., 12 unless he asked the Supreme Court to intervene by then.

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Chugh LLP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A United States District Court has ordered the Department of State (DOS) to make an effort to expedite diversity visa (DV) 2021 application processing by September 30, 2021. This Diversity Visa court ruling should lead to faster DV-2021 application processing. By: Kirti Kalra. DV cases will be processed in rank order. [1]

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Share Nineteen states came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to keep in place a Trump-era policy that allows immigration officials to quickly expel migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The dispute now before the Supreme Court is a separate case. immigration court.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding. In Miller v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. An Oregon-based timber company went to federal court in Oregon to challenge the monument’s expansion. The Oregon district court rejected the timber company’s challenge. But the D.C. On appeal, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court held a special session on Monday to honor the late Justice John Paul Stevens, who died in 2019 at age 99. He was an “absurdly competent and productive person” who wrote more separate opinions than any other justice in the history of the court, Baron said. David Baron, the chief judge of the U.S.

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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. In 2008, the Supreme Court recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Instead, Monday’s orders focused primarily on turning down appeals, including on issues like voting representation for the residents of the District of Columbia and funding for the wall along the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and C.H. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Share Sandra Day O’Connor, a self-described “Arizona cowgirl” who made history as the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, died on Friday in Phoenix, Arizona. The cause was complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease, and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court announced. She was 93.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2021

” In February 2020, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a ban on assisted suicide violated the right to personal autonomy and was unconstitutional. Assisted suicide is also legal in Victoria, Australia and nine American states, and the District of Columbia.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning issued orders from the justices’ private conference last Thursday. Love came to the Supreme Court last summer, asking the justices to decide whether allowing Niesman to sit on the jury even after Love’s attorney had challenged him violated Love’s constitutional rights.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 25, 2021

More than two dozen states — including Massachusetts — and the District of Columbia have already disallowed putting juveniles behind bars for life with no chance at parole. Washington state’s high court earlier this year abolished automatic life without parole sentences given to people for murders committed as 18- to 20-year-olds.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. After going two conferences without any new relists, the Supreme Court ended the relist drought this week with a vengeance. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear argument on whether that exclusion violates the Constitution. For most of that history, courts raised few constitutional concerns about the disparities. Two lower courts ruled in favor of Vaello-Madero. The case, United States v. territories far less favorably than the states.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This week, the Supreme Court will again assemble for a new term and pundits and politicians are already handicapping the cases. This term however has more drama and tension as Democrats call for packing the Court with an instant liberal majority and others attack its members in anticipation of opinions that have yet to be written.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. 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. All shaped the court in their own ways. The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2009, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, based on prior court rulings, there had been a “clearly established” right not to be shackled during labor since September 2003. The District of Columbia and 31 U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow “initial aggressor” limitations on self-defense claims. This means that the court must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant meant to harm the individual before being provoked or engaging in a mutually combated altercation. Similarly, in People v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We have been discussing ( here and here and here ) the Supreme Court challenge in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen , the first Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court in over ten years. In 2008, the Supreme Court recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v.

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