JURIST
JUNE 27, 2023
Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. Judge Gregg Costa, joined by six other judges, wrote that “[t]he Supreme Court’s message is unmistakable: Courts should not assign federal criminal statutes a ‘breathtaking scope’ when a narrower reading is reasonable.”
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 28, 2022
The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). Georgia , the Supreme Court relied on this language to allow a suit against Georgia by an out-of-state creditor.
JURIST
JUNE 24, 2023
Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Louisiana , 21-993. permits courts to defer to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the pro-veteran canon of construction; and (2) whether Chevron should be overruled. Until next time, stay safe ! New Relists. Returning Relists. 28 and Oct. 7 conferences).
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The Supreme Court has held that the federal government assumes a trust obligation to assert reserved water rights for Native tribes only when it “ expressly accepts those responsibilities by statute ,” by regulation, or by treaty with a tribe. Louisiana , 21-993. relisted after the Oct. 28 conference). Returning Relists. 14 and Oct.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,
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