SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The last scheduled conference of the Supreme Court’s term — which this term is being held Thursday — is usually one that yields many grants. A short explanation of relists is available here. citizen. (The

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. On the merits, the District Court found the Guidelines unlawful and vacated them. In United States v. 1231(a)(2) ). 1231(a)(2) ).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Ciminelli v. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Ciminelli v. The justices have agreed to clarify the states’ ability to challenge federal immigration policy, among other issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Share The justices returned to the bench on Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear arguments in January in a pair of cases asking the justices to overrule a landmark decision on deference to federal administrative agencies. Raimondo headline the calendar for the January argument session , which the court released on Friday morning. The question before the court in FBI v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday issued its decision in LeDure v. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit was “affirmed by an equally divided Court.” As is customary in this situation, the Supreme Court revealed only that the vote was evenly split — not the identities of the justices on each side.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court announced that it would hold its “mop up” conference for October Term 2022 on Thursday, after completing the day’s opinion announcements. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. 23 conference and the April 12 conference — that’s six conferences — the Supreme Court relisted just one new case. This week, the court also began clearing out some relists that have been hanging around for a while.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The US Supreme Court released orders Friday and Monday after its September “long conference.” ” The court granted certiorari for 12 cases Friday and two cases Monday for its Winter term, to be argued in January or February. Texas ; Corner Post, Inc. The accepted cases include: Moody v. Netchoice ; Netchoice v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Now, federal Judge Michael Truncale (left) has issued a preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of Texas to stop the prosecution of the company. The move is relatively rare since the Younger abstention doctrine ordinarily shields state prosecutions from such interventions of federal courts. It is not an absolute rule.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two new cases , both involving Native Americans, to its docket for this term. United States , the justices agreed to consider whether a prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses can trigger the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause. Six months later, a federal grand jury in the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

Civil rights groups filed a complaint on Thursday against Iowa state officials to stop the state’s recently enacted immigration law from going into effect on July 1. The law makes it a crime for a foreign national to enter Iowa after having been deported from the US in the past, regardless of current immigration status.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is normally a federal matter. The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana went to federal court in Texas to challenge the policy. William Hennessy).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Share Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? And if the guidelines are unlawful, does the Administrative Procedure Act give lower courts the power to vacate them — a universal remedy that goes beyond the parties to the case? Texas , set to be argued on Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. The vote was 8-1.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Texas presents the latest stage in the Biden administration’s attempt to unwind the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy. immigration court. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the secretary attempted to address the earlier deficient explanation by issuing a new decision terminating the policy.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. As October Term 2021 winds to a close, the Supreme Court is holding its penultimate scheduled conference this week. The petitioners also ask the court to overrule Employment Division v. Sturgis Public Schools.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. FEATURED CASE. States and Coal Company Sought Review of D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. But I’ll be even more summary than usual today because of the press of business We finally may have gotten an explanation why the court rescheduled Dignity Health, Inc. In addition, the court relisted: Boardman v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The justices will also hear oral arguments in two cases involving federal fraud and bribery statutes, a challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement decisions, and the government’s authority to dismiss a lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act. Texas (Nov. 303 Creative and Moore v. United States (Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday handed the Biden administration a major victory, giving it the green light to end one of the Trump administration’s signature immigration programs: the controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland to support the prior positions taken by his predecessor, William Barr, on issues ranging from the Lafayette Park protests to immigration to withholding information related to the Mueller investigation.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday denied the Biden administration’s appeal to terminate the Trump-era Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), affirming a Texas district court’s decision that would require the administration to leave the MPP intact.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2024

As we’ve explained in a series of articles , in many federal courts throughout the country, all or practically all cases are assigned to a single judge, giving litigants the ability to “judge shop”—that is, to choose their own judge. Simply put, district courts seem free to ignore everything the Judicial Conference has said.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Last term, the court dismissed as improvidently granted, or “DIG”ed , a case brought by Republican-controlled states challenging the government’s repeal of a Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing. One reason the petitioners asked the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. The viability framework. Against stare decisis.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Take the series of losses recently by the Biden Administration in areas like immigration. For example, in terminating policies like Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, the Supreme Court ruled that Biden acted in violation of the federal law. It should sound familiar. In its 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the growing number of losses by the Biden Administration in courts around the country, including a particularly embarrassing loss before the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court later upheld the core elements of the travel ban and rejected the general claims raised against it.)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2021

right now , so what can the Supreme Court do to give us a break from the tedium of endless Zoom meetings ? The court won’t be meeting in conference for four weeks after this Friday. But with so many relists primed to grant, the court may make substantial inroads on filling its fall argument calendar on the next order list.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the battle over the Biden administration’s efforts to end one of the Trump administration’s signature immigration policies. Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone II argues for the state. During nearly two hours of oral argument in Biden v.

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