JonathanTurley
APRIL 29, 2023
District Judge Stephen McGlynn has granted a preliminary injunction of Illinois’ ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 27, 2022
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises , along with Capitol News Illinois. On a chilly November morning in 2019, Lutrice Williams, a patient at a state-run mental health center in southern Illinois, was surprised by a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 9, 2023
Meanwhile, states like New York , Illinois , Nevada , and California have extended their statute of limitations on a wide range of sex crimes that expand the window for survivors to take legal action against their attackers and receive justice. TCR: How did the Supreme Court spark the evolution of the Victims’ Rights Movement?
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Given the findings, the question is whether the Illinois bar will review the matter. Attorneys are generally barred from making “ a false statement of material fact or law to a third person. However, there will be few real answers unless the court refers the matter to the Illinois bar (or bar members ask for such a review).
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 25, 2022
Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act. But it followed precedent of the U.S.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.
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