SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. It further held that while there are narrow exceptions to this rule, state public policy is not one of them. On February 21, 2024, the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supreme Court had a busy week, hearing oral arguments in five cases. University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Harvard College and SFFA v. 306 (2003).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take an appeal by anti-abortion activists in a First Amendment dispute with Planned Parenthood, as well as a test of New Jersey’s “slogan statutes.” courts Dermody v. The specific question at issue in Mazo v. 6 attacks on the U.S. International Paper Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, challenges to President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Turkish steel, the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. University of North Carolina.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

University of North Carolina. Unlike the Harvard University case , in which the same petitioner, Students for Fair Admissions, is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the U.S. Less well noticed was a curious procedural feature of the second case, Students for Fair Admissions v.

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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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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As some Supreme Court podcasters have noted, Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in late January pushed the so-called Maskgate controversy out of the spotlight. Perhaps the court has concluded that certain podcasters are in need of more fodder for their metaphors about the status of the court.

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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.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Courts failed to address 1,774 of those claims. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. They identified 7,207 separate claims of prosecutorial misconduct over that 17-year period.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals. 20-1045 (D.C.

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