The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Earlier this month, the Utah House of Representative’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee, after lengthy and passionate debate, narrowly defeated a bill to repeal the death penalty. The death penalty was often described in Utah as “blood atonement “?the Executions are rare in Utah and so is the method.
JURIST
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The Ohio Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Ohio courts do not have to defer to a state agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous law. The Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas reversed the Board’s decision without affording any deference to the agency’s interpretation of the relevant statute.
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At the Lectern
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Rule 8.548 allows the Supreme Court to answer questions of California law posed by courts in other jurisdictions. The Ninth Circuit is almost always the court asking for help, but it doesn’t have to be. Rule 8.548 doesn’t allow a district court to ask the Supreme Court for a decision of California law.
LawSites
JULY 27, 2022
The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , said that the state legislature is to blame for stalling efforts to bring about regulatory reforms to address the state’s gap in access to justice. Every year, the bar dues bill has to be approved by the California legislature, not the Supreme Court.
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.
JonathanTurley
JULY 11, 2021
There is a troubling case in Panguitch, Utah where a woman has reportedly been charged with a hate crim e for allegedly “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign” at a gas station. 397 (1989), the Supreme Court voted 5-4 that flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In Texas v.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Tribal courts are often the only immediately available forum to address violent crime in Indian Country, but the sentences they can impose are extremely limited and often insufficient. also a Navajo Nation citizen, on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation, which is located in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. On Tuesday, in Denezpi v.
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