HowAppealing

MARCH 15, 2023

” The post “Georgia Judge Avoids Removal Over Ethical Concerns, For Now; Judge purportedly mistreated clients as an attorney; Code of Judicial Conduct only applies to judges” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in United States v. Respondents contend—and the CAAF held—that the phrase means capable of punishment by death when all applicable law is taken into account. Because this Court held in Coker v. The court agreed with the government’s argument and upheld the convictions as timely.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 9, 2021

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed on Friday to rehear a gerrymandering case out of Galveston County, Texas, en banc— meaning the full bench of judges from the Fifth Circuit will sit to rehear arguments. ” In 2021, the Galveston County Commissioners Court implemented a new districting plan.

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Trademark & Copyright Law

MAY 8, 2020

On April 27, the Supreme Court took us on a stroll down memory lane in its decision in Georgia v. The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v. Myers , based its decision on this doctrine, which limits copyright protection for works created by officials who are empowered to speak with the force of law. The Background.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its ruling in United States v. In coverage of the ruling, Orlando Montoya of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports that “ Drug sentencing ruling hinges on definition of simple, common word.” ” And at “The SDFLA Blog,” John R.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

Officials say that the proliferation of guns, eased by the state’s loosening restrictions on them, comes at economic and social costs, while festival safety measures have been under intense scrutiny since a crowd surge at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in November killed 10.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). In May 2022, the House of Representatives in Cyprus passed Law 69(I)/2022 on the Establishment and Operation of the Commercial Court and Admiralty Court.

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LawSites

MAY 3, 2022

Supreme Court victory defeating the state of Georgia’s claim of copyright in its official legislative code, to his 2022 federal court win allowing him to publish private-industry technical standards that are incorporated by reference into thousands of federal, state and local laws, Malamud has devoted his career to freeing the law. .

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday reshaped the relationship between universities and the athletes who play college sports. In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the NCAA’s policies banning those types of compensation “raise serious questions under the antitrust laws.”. Monday’s decision in NCAA v. After the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the prosecution in a case of illegal gun possession by a person with a nonimmigrant visa must prove he knew of his legal status, and the inquiry courts should follow in deciding to close the courtroom to the public.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday held that a Georgia sheriff violated sex offenders’ constitutional rights by placing warning signs at their homes during Halloween. Georgia law forbids registered sex offenders from participating in Halloween.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Over 40 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. Sosa went to federal court, arguing that the officers violated his constitutional rights. A federal district court in Florida dismissed his lawsuit.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. 17-4-60 (2010) 17-4-60.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The trial penalty that coaxes both the guilty and innocent to enter pleas is exacerbated by mandatory minimum statutes, which trigger automatic penalties if invoked by the prosecutor, as well as sentencing enhancements within the discretion of the prosecutor, such as whether to file notice with the court of a prior offense. In fact, the U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Transgender Attorney Sheryl Ring Monday won a lawsuit in US district court with a stipulation that Illinois attorney ethics rules do not allow discrimination based on gender identity. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the case of a Georgia student who was stopped from handing out religious literature and speaking about his faith on the campus of his public college. The question before the court on Tuesday in Uzuegbunam v. After the U.S.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Laws, rules, regulations, and opinions vary by jurisdiction. Are Fees Refundable?

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). In NAACP v.

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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. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it.

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2021

A US federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s anti-BDS law, which prohibits state contractors from boycotting Israel, violates the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled in favor of Martin, and found that O.C.G.A. § She contended that O.C.G.A. §

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 21, 2023

Introduction Rising cross-border migration of people and concomitant increase in lawsuits relating to matrimonial disputes between couples brings to the forefront the issue of conflict of jurisdictional laws ( 219 th Law Commission Report , ¶1.1-¶1.2). The lex situs approach upheld in Mbatha falls under the “partial mutability” rule.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Today, 44 states and the District of Columbia have laws aiming to protect fetal development from drugs or alcohol. Its legal proceedings take place out of public view, under seal, with a low standard of evidence and often a court-appointed attorney for the fetus — but none for the person gestating it. About 400 cases a year.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Congress passed a tax law that allowed taxpayers to deduct from federal income taxation only up to $10,000 of state and local taxes. Then-President Donald Trump described the 2017 law as an “incentive” for taxpayers “to say, hey, make sure that your politicians do a good job of running your state.” New York v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

On Tuesday, the justices will confront double jeopardy issues in the case of Damian McElrath , a Georgia man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity on one murder charge arising from the stabbing death of his mother, while he was found guilty but mentally ill on a different murder charge (as well as an aggravated assault charge).

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

The court allowed the public to listen to pubic portions of the trial by telephone. During the trial, Intel asserted that VLSI’s expert had not presented a per unit royalty in his pre-trial disclosure and should not be allowed to present a per unit royalty in court. As it happened the court ruled in VLSI’s favor on this point.

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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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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

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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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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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2021

Five Republican senators introduced a bill on Wednesday to remove Major League Baseball’s (MLB) antitrust exemption after the MLB moved the All-Star game out of Georgia to protest Georgia’s new voting restrictions. The Senators described the decision to move the All-Star game out of Georgia as “ hyper-partisan.”

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated a federal trial court’s order that barred officials in Georgia from using “at large” elections for the state’s Public Service Commission. In a brief unsigned order , the justices granted a request to lift the ruling by the U.S.

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