JURIST

JUNE 28, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that federal law does not grant Facebook immunity against lawsuits for users who use its platform to lure minors into sex trafficking. However, the Texas Supreme Court denied Facebook’s motion saying that section 230 does not “create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 27, 2023

Texas District Court Judge Maria Cant ú Hexsel temporarily blocked SB 14 , which bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts children already taking gender-affirming prescription drugs, from going into effect on Friday. The case is in the District Court of Travis County, Texas.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

US District Judge Robert Pitman Friday ruled that Texas abortion funds cannot be prosecuted for aiding women who travel out of Texas to get abortions. In August 2022, numerous abortion funds, pro-choice groups and non-profit organizations brought the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a pair of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites. Two trade groups representing social media platforms went to federal court to challenge the laws. Both laws were passed in the wake of the Jan.

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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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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected challenges to Texas’s new voting restrictions in three separate 2-1 decisions on Wednesday. Texas Secretary of State , challenged the constitutionality of the state’s system for verifying signatures on mail-in ballots. The second case, Lewis v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, keeping intact the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. The Texas Legislature was well aware of this binding precedent. The law became effective midnight on Tuesday.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“Texas Doctor Who Violated Abortion Law Wins Dismissal of Suit; Suit was filed under law allowing private policing of statute; San Antonio doctor wrote op-ed detailing his violation of law”: Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg News has this report. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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JULY 16, 2021

“New Texas Abortion Statute Raises Cutting-Edge Questions Not Just About Abortion but About the Relationship Between State and Federal Courts”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2022

The Texas and Ohio Supreme Courts Friday denied motions by state abortion providers seeking relief from the states’ now-effective anti-abortion laws. Earlier this week, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing a century-old state law that criminalizes abortion from taking effect.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. Justice Kavanaugh writes, quoting Linda R.S. :

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the case of a Texas death-row inmate seeking DNA testing for evidence that he believes will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit never reached the merits of Reed’s claim. Justice Samuel Alito was more skeptical.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

“State judge declares Texas abortion law unconstitutional — but does not stop it from being enforced; The fate of the statute remains uncertain; An appeal to the ruling is already underway, and an opinion on the law from the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

A Texas man Friday sued three women who allegedly aided his ex-wife by providing her with “illegally obtained abortion pills” without his knowledge. Silva is represented by the former Solicitor General of Texas, Jonathan F. Therefore, the court does not have any license to put aside Texas’ abortion laws.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 9, 2021

“Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily restored by federal appeals court”: Madlin Mekelburg of The Austin American-Statesman has this report. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “ Appeals court reinstates Texas’s six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , the Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a Texas court and held that a military veteran could proceed with a lawsuit against his former employer, the Texas Department of Public Safety. A Texas court agreed and dismissed Torres’ suit. Share In Torres v.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Texas’s Abortion Law Blunder: The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, but the statute won’t survive scrutiny on the merits.” ” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court continued to work through its backlog of relists. On Friday, the court granted review in three-time relist Dubin v. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erroneously granted habeas relief.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a highly controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB8) , which bans all abortions after six weeks and authorizes citizens to report individuals who assist or intend to assist people seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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APRIL 18, 2022

But earlier this year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened up a new battleground: the home. A few days later, the governor of Texas ordered the state’s Child Protective Services (CPS) to investigate families whose children are in transgender therapy. The attorney general then appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

District Court Judge Robert Pitman has blocked the new Texas law that uses the prospect of private lawsuits to enforce a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, issuing a a preliminary injunction that immediately forbids Texas state court judges and clerks to accept suits under the law, known as S.B.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2023

A group of environmental activist groups Thursday filed petition in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the review of the US Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) decision to license the Sea Port Oil Terminal located off the coast of Texas. 702 and Deepwater Port Act 33 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. Gonzalez came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in. In 2019, in Nieves v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Texas resolves a longstanding dispute about the ability of Texas to control gambling on the lands of two of the Native American tribes that reside there. The answer the court gave was a stern rebuke, vitiating the plenary control that lower-court decisions had granted the state for more than a quarter of a century.

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The Crime Report

MAY 30, 2023

“ Texas Legislature passes bill reining in “rogue” prosecutors ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at [link].

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in two challenges to S.B. 8, the Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state. In particular, the law allows anyone, including people who do not live in Texas, to bring a lawsuit in state court against anyone who performs an abortion or helps to make one possible.

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APRIL 16, 2024

by Dennis Crouch Law school civil procedure courses spend very little time on proper venue because, in most cases venue is proper so long as the district court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant. ” This provision ensures the venue statutes do not limit the ability to sue foreign defendants U.S. See 28 U.S.C.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law provision Friday that allowed police to draw blood from unconscious drivers and test it for alcohol content without a warrant. Many courts have addressed the issue of taking blood samples from drivers without consent, including Texas and Nevada.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. Greg Abbott signed the Texas law, known as S.B. 8 , on May 19.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Another Texas inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, who was set to be executed on Oct. Supreme Court’s upcoming review of similar religious freedom issues made by another inmate, John Henry Ramirez, whose execution the high court delayed last week, will impact Gutierrez’s case. Ramirez made similar claims when he was granted a stay.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Plastronics Socket split into two companies: Plastronics Socket and Plastronics H-Pin under Texas “divisive merger” statute. (It is odd, but under Texas law, a division in this way is legally defined as a merger). Statute of Limitations : Plastronics also had a counterclaim. See Hooks v. 3d 52, 68 (Tex.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

A majority for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia Tech’s bias reporting policies do not violate free speech principles protected by the First Amendment, upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction.

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