SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Share For the third time this term, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether someone can stage an intervention – the legal kind, that is. The North Carolina legislature passed the voter-ID law at the center of the case in December 2018. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit struck down an earlier version of the law.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 26, 2022

of North Carolina is representing the inmate, who is asking a court to order the North Carolina Department of Public Safety to allow her access to hormones and so-called "gender-affirming surgery.". The A.C.L.U.

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LPB Network

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, which presents the following questions: Whether a state agent authorized by state law to defend the State’s interest in litigation must overcome a.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 13, 2022

A new blog devoted to transnational litigation — Transnational Litigation Blog, or TLB — is now officially up and running. The primary focus of TLB is on transnational litigation in U.S. courts (both state and federal). A link to the blog can be found here.

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Monday that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) can continue their lawsuit against the University of Texas Austin (UT) for racial discrimination in their admissions process. The court found that the lawsuit was barred under res judicata because of it’s similarity to Fisher v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The US Supreme Court left in place an admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia on Tuesday after the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the admissions practice. However, the court disagreed and found that this was not a compelling interest.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2024

The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declined Tuesday to rehear with the full Eighth Circuit panel of judges a prior appeals court decision curtailing private organizations’ ability to sue under section two of the Voting Rights Act for alleged racial gerrymandering in redistricting decisions.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2024

In anticipation of the 2024 elections, many states are litigating and changing voting rules. Last month, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled 4-3 that the state legislature’s assembly district maps are unconstitutional under the Wisconsin Constitution and ordered new remedial maps to be drawn for the 2024 elections.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled 4-3 that the state legislature’s assembly district maps are unconstitutional under the Wisconsin Constitution on Wednesday and ordered new remedial maps to be drawn for the 2024 elections. Karofsky authored the majority opinion of the court. Justice Jill J.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lenovo and Motorola Mobility fired back against Ericsson with a countersuit in an underlying infringement action in North Carolina federal court, arguing the Swedish company is refusing to honor its licensing obligations for its 5G patents and engaging in global litigation to demand excessive royalties.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2022

The Supreme Court Monday rejected a request to temporarily block a new admissions policy at a Virginia high school. The court did not state their reasoning for rejecting the request but Justices Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch noted they did not agree with the decision. The school board asked The U.S.

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Above The Law

JUNE 30, 2022

. * Given this Court, it may be a bad time to be gay in Texas. [ North Carolina's vigilantes aren't getting the go-ahead from their police chief. [ Bound 2 litigate: Ye West sued over sampling this banger of a house track. The Hill ]. Business Insider ].

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday signaled that it may not be ready to adopt a sweeping interpretation of the Constitution, known as the “independent state legislature” theory, that would give state legislatures broad power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts. The dispute before the court in Moore v.

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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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Law 360

APRIL 6, 2023

An insurance company that claims it's owed $524 million by embattled businessman Greg Lindberg blasted his bid to shield his finances, decrying the "cloud of secrecy" he's casting over the litigation in North Carolina federal court.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On Wednesday, December 7, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a fringe legal idea called the independent state legislature theory that poses a threat to the current system of election administration in the United States. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In an unsigned order, the justices turned down a request from the same group that spearheaded challenges to the use of affirmative action in admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, and which now argues that West Point’s use of race violates the Constitution. Army and almost half of the country’s four-star generals.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

All 50 state attorneys general have come together through the newly formed Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to go after U.S. By potentially coordinating lawsuits, the attorneys general make it more expensive for the robocaller companies, which earlier had calculated the cost of individual court cases into their cost of doing business.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Anthony Perkins in a still photo from Orson Well’s 1962 film version of “The Trial” In Franz Kafka’s sinister 1925 novel, The Trial, the hero finds himself the defendant in a court case where he is unaware of what law he has broken. North Carolina Justice. Could that happen in the U.S.?

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Much attention has been devoted recently to the increased calls for emergency relief from the Supreme Court in fast-paced ligation on the shadow docket. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Share The Supreme Court ended a week of momentous news on a much more low-key note, releasing on Friday afternoon the argument calendar for the justices’ March arguments. The court will hear eight hours of oral arguments over six days, on topics ranging from arbitration to international child-custody law. ZF Automotive US v.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A. But that is not what the district court did. I did not, but this case prompted me to write one!

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 27, 2024

Share The same group that spearheaded lawsuits to effectively end the use of affirmative action in college admissions returned to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to temporarily bar the U.S. SFFA went to federal court in New York in September, alleging that the U.S. Army, from considering race in its admissions process.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Military Academy on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to stay out of a dispute over the use of race in the school’s admissions policy. In those cases, the Supreme Court struck down the schools’ programs, effectively ending the use of affirmative action in college admissions. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Both of the lawsuits were filed in federal court in 2014 by a group called Students for Fair Admissions, which describes itself as “dedicated to defending the right to racial equality in college admissions.” Two cases, two paths to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

Share With all eyes focused on the nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, selected by President Joe Biden to succeed the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court was back to work on Monday morning. The legislators then came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in. In Berger v. But the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Both the district court and the U.S. The en banc U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Yegiazaryan v. In Abitron Austria GmbH v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2022

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week, it was missing hospitalized Justice Clarence Thomas. The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements, and international child custody disputes. Sundance, Inc.: Concepcion , 563 U.S.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Supreme Court 2022). This includes McLennan County, home of Waco Texas and Judge Albright’s court. This cutting-up of ownership rights is supported by old Supreme Court precedent as well as the Patent Act itself. Now, Ikorongo Texas has petitioned the Supreme Court for writ of certiorari. Samsung Electronics Co.,

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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. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. On February 21, 2024, the U.S.

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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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SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Nearly every state allows federal courts to certify questions of state law to obtain definitive answers from state supreme courts on unsettled issues of state law. The United States Supreme Court has explained that certifications “saves time, energy, and resources and helps build a cooperative judicial federalism.”

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SquirePattonBoggs

MARCH 11, 2024

Four years ago, the Supreme Court declined a federal habeas petitioner’s request to review the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Avery v. Justice Kavanaugh, the Sixth Circuit’s assigned circuit justice, attached a “ statement ” to the Supreme Court’s cert. But the Court turned it away. See In re Nat’l Prescription Opiate Litig. ,

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court continues to churn through its relisted cases. On Monday, the court disposed of two more. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248. Sundance, Inc. ,

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Patently O

AUGUST 25, 2021

The litigation has substantial parallels to Google v. In Google , the Supreme Court found fair-use but did not decide the issue of copyrightability. The district court dismissed the copyright claims — holding that the software was unprotectable. It is also the third time courts have rejected SASII’s copyright claims.”

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