Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 21, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2022
1983 ; they are not forced into federal habeas litigation that is procedurally doomed. The Heck bar is a big deal to death-sentenced prisoners who challenge execution methods, because those challenges almost always ripen after the first round of federal habeas litigation finishes. But Texas had to change a regulation, not a statute.).
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 27, 2022
When must state prisoners alleging unconstitutional execution methods use habeas corpus petitions, and when may they proceed under the more general civil rights statute, 42 U.S.C. If a state prisoner must use habeas litigation, then federal courts will almost never reach the merits of the claim.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 7, 2021
First, the applicant must meet precise eligibility requirements under the statute. citizen” when applying for a Georgia driver’s license. That statute is known as the jurisdictional bar. Don’t those two presumptions kind of cancel each other out, and we’re left with just reading the statute as it’s written?” he asked.
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. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state. The United States legal system is immensely complex.
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. Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system. The Furman Framework.
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