SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Share A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a district court’s order that would have required the Louisiana legislature to draw new congressional maps, including a second majority-Black district. The court is scheduled to hear oral argument in that case on Oct. The Louisiana dispute, Ardoin v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

Share After nearly two hours of oral argument on Monday, a majority of the justices appeared sympathetic to the Biden administration’s argument that a federal court in New Orleans went too far in an order that would limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Medrano had initially invoked his right to silence and asked for a lawyer, but the police officers investigating the robbery urged his wife to persuade him to talk to them, telling her that if he spoke with them he could return home to her and their baby. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 6, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Black voters won a big victory in Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a capital defendant’s request for habeas relief on the ground that his lawyer conceded guilt over his objection, as in 2018’s McCoy v. After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday concerning whether agencies under the Biden administration had the authority to require large employers and medical care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to mandate employee vaccinations. The first case, National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) v.

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Above The Law

MAY 16, 2024

CNN ] * Conservative justices green light new likely Democratic congressional seat in Louisiana. We've said it before, but " whatever WE feel like " is the Court's guiding voting rights doctrine. American Lawyer ] * Law firms fear AI will lead to lower profits. American Lawyer ] * Law firms fear AI will lead to lower profits.

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HowAppealing

JULY 3, 2021

“Fifth Circuit: Texas Lawyers Don’t Have to Join State Bar and Pay Dues; The State Bar of Texas engages in political activities that fall outside the scope of its interests so it cannot force attorneys to join it and pay mandatory dues, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday.” Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2022

Anyone who has paid attention knows by now that the Supreme Court is an independent branch when it comes to snow days, and the court rarely shuts down even when the rest of the government does. The unusual aspects of today’s arguments are that they are occurring on a Friday and come from the court’s emergency docket.

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Above The Law

JUNE 27, 2023

American Lawyer ] * Legal departments preparing for a sharp uptick in litigation. The Guardian ] * Louisiana lawyer bought 8,888 Jell-O shots. While that sounds like a normal Monday in Louisiana, in this case it was a charity event for the College World Series. WDSU ] * Convict punches lawyer after conviction. [

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this earlier blo g, I commented on the pending litigation over unanimous verdicts at courts-martial. As military defense lawyers we continue to support the advice given that the issue should be raised in all courts going forward. The update is that the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has decided United States v.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

MAY 9, 2023

Military lawyers know that since the Supreme Court decided Ramos v. Louisiana , the U. Currently, a military jury (called a Panel of Members) must have eight members in a general court-martial (12 if it’s a death penalty case) and four in a special court-martial. Supreme Court (or vice-versa).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A federal appeals court in Louisiana agreed with Texan Zackey Rahimi, that the law, 18 U.S.C. § Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit “endangers victims of domestic violence, their families, police officers, and the public.” 2020 civil protective order entered against him in a state court in Texas.

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Above The Law

MAY 17, 2021

Fox News ] * Allegations made in litigation suggest that a former Trump lawyer is raiding a nonprofit for her own personal use. [ AP ] * The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned a medical marijuana initiative in that state. A Louisiana lawyer has been charged with attempting to bring contraband into a local jail. [

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and C.H. Two members of the court’s liberal wing, Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, penned opinions regarding the court’s decision not to take up the cases of two death-row inmates. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. Personalweb Technologies v.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 23, 2022

A deep dive into the world of election conspiracy lawyer Stefanie Lambert ( no stranger to these pages ) as she faces possible disbarment. Conservatives LOVE the Western District of Louisiana and while it might be the gumbo, it's probably the deeply right-wing judge roster with the power to halt national policies. Huffington Post ].

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In Louisiana, police arrested a man, Arthur Bates Jr., In torts, we often discuss strike suits and slip-and-fall actions designed to force settlements from litigation-wary companies. 47, who they allege staged such an accident. The problem is that it was caught on videotape by the Tesla driver.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. When I imagine a foreign lawyer trying to explain this system to a foreign client, my heart fills with pity. Do state courts enforce these clauses at the same rate as federal courts?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Simmons was declared innocent and released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers. Simmons has maintained his innocence, saying he was in Louisiana at the time of the 1974 slaying of Carolyn Sue Rogers inside an Edmond liquor store.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

In court filings, lawyers have said that they believe that nationwide, school districts have spent at least $127 billion on services to address the opioid crisis. The lawsuits aim to get these companies to help pay for the costs of education and supporting children affected by the opioid crisis.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It also integrates with Dropbox, for lawyers who prefer to store their documents there.) In the years since, that product was subsumed into DivorceHelp123, which itself started as a Colorado-specific product but evolved into a product for lawyers in any state. Enable the client to directly add data and upload documents.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday added two new cases to its docket for the 2023-24 term, involving educational benefits for veterans and a rare appearance by the 16th Amendment. A Washington state couple, Charles and Kathleen Moore, went to federal court to challenge the tax. In Moore v. In the second case, Rudisill v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Friday in two sets of challenges to the Biden administration’s authority to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, for the first time since the court’s return to in-person arguments, two of the six lawyers participated by phone.

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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. Some were lawyers. All shaped the court in their own ways. The woman who argued Roe v.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

This year’s group of honorees is composed of a diverse array of lawyers, legal technologists, law librarians, judges, legal researchers, innovators, and people who are committed to reforming and automating the law. Miriam Childs , Director, Law Library of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court. California Supreme Court.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

Today, Fastcase is announcing the 2022 cohort of the Fastcase 50, and it includes a diverse array of legal tech founders, practicing lawyers, law firm professionals, judges, law professors, law librarians, bar association leaders, and investors — not to mention the attorney who is the NFL’s first Black woman team president.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2023

to serve as a lawyer’s virtual legal assistant, able to help with researching legal issues, drafting emails and letters, summarizing documents, brainstorming blog ideas, and even just conversational chatting. In the example you see above of using Copilot for legal research, the lawyer asks for the leading U.S. Correct my grammar.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and the lawyers challenging the regulation (sometimes referred to as a “gag rule”) had asked the court to dismiss the cases in March because the Biden administration is in the process of unwinding the rule. Monday’s other grants. In Badgerow v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

The role of the Supreme Court has come under heavy fire in recent years as it, like every other institution of government, has become increasingly divided along political lines. The Supreme Court takes on about 60 cases that undergo the full, robust process in a typical year. Louisiana v. Earlier this month, the Louisiana v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the reports, which are the result of two years of research, New Mexico is short more than 600 full-time public defenders across adult and juvenile courts, whereas Oregon is short nearly 1,300 public defenders. hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6 ” New Mexico and Oregon.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. What they got instead was something less.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades , Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments. The world closed in to keep the virus out, and so did the court. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – urged the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon to reject Texas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election. First, the states stressed, Texas’ lawsuit does not fall within the narrow category of cases in which the Supreme Court should exercise its original jurisdiction.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Share A divided Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether a Washington state law that prohibits licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on children violates the First Amendment. The conversion therapy question came to the Supreme Court in the case of Brian Tingley , a Washington marriage and family counselor.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Young lawyer turned legal tech geek. Since the end of my fellowship, I’ve been back in Louisiana building up civil legal aid technology with the support of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. My current focus is building out public-facing digital infrastructure for civil justice in Louisiana.

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