Conflict of Laws

JUNE 13, 2024

10] where Petitioner Unterweser agreed to tow respondent’s drilling rig from Louisiana to Italy, with a forum-selection clause stipulating that any disputes would be litigated in the High Court of Justice in London. There are other examples of this display of institutional capacity and competence in the U.S. Zapata Off-Shore Co., [10]

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

In an apparent effort to create perpetual full employment for federal sentencing lawyers , the Supreme Court long ago adopted a “categorical approach” to determine whether a predicate offense qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 924(c)(3)(A) (as well as under the Armed Career Criminal Act, codified at Section 924(e)).

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

Chief Justice Roberts appeared hesitant to allow this broad exercise of administrative authority, claiming this move by the federal government was unprecedented. Two of the six lawyers arguing against the mandate appeared virtually, having recently tested positive for COVID-19.

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Gravel2Gavel

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Our guest today is Anne Idsal Austin, a nationally recognized environmental lawyer who has held several high-profile federal and state regulatory roles. Prior to that, she served as the EPA regional administrator for Region 6, overseeing all federal environmental programs in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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ALPS

APRIL 28, 2021

Many states permit lawyers to include in their engagement agreements arbitration provisions which would require potential clients to arbitrate future malpractice claims. It is an issue with which many states are now grappling, so it would behoove lawyers to check the law in their own states if they are considering including such a clause.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 8, 2019

If lawyering culture, as a whole, stops seeing itself as the refuge for the tech-phobic, the industry will evolve to new heights. With university mashups of science and law, tech competency at bar associations, and Global Legal Hackathons , there is no place for these new lawyers to go but forward. ABA TECHSHOW 2019: Keynote Address.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

In addition, for the first time since the court’s return to in-person arguments, two of the six lawyers participated by phone. Sotomayor, who has lifelong diabetes that puts her at higher risk from COVID-19, did not take the bench at all; she instead opted to participate in Friday’s arguments remotely.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

In the 1990s, he served as a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and between 2003 and 2010 he returned as a lawyer to argue nine cases there. Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart argues on behalf of the government. When Stewart answered that the government “would probably say that,” Alito was incredulous.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lawyers objected but the judge let the testimony in. People like Faria, defense lawyers and sometimes even the judges are blindsided. “I I first stumbled on 911 call analysis while reporting on a police department in northern Louisiana. Faria was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. I was wrong.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Medrano had initially invoked his right to silence and asked for a lawyer, but the police officers investigating the robbery urged his wife to persuade him to talk to them, telling her that if he spoke with them he could return home to her and their baby. She argued that under the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Ramos v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

But the challengers – two states with Republican attorneys general, Missouri and Louisiana, and several individuals whose social media posts were removed or downgraded – say that the government’s efforts violate social media users’ rights to free speech. But Louisiana Solicitor General J.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

The role of the Supreme Court has come under heavy fire in recent years as it, like every other institution of government, has become increasingly divided along political lines. Louisiana v. Earlier this month, the Louisiana v. American Rivers. Checking the Supreme Court. Constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Some were lawyers. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Ramsey Clark, a lawyer who had served in various senior positions in the Department of Justice, to be his attorney general. As both a government lawyer and in private practice, Douglas Huron spent his legal career advocating on behalf of workers.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Federal prisoner Quartavious Davis asserted that his trial lawyer rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance for not pursuing a plea deal for him, causing him to receive a sentence many times longer than his co-defendants who pleaded guilty. There were no new cert grants from our last installment of relisted cases. On appeal, the U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 16, 2024

CNN ] * Conservative justices green light new likely Democratic congressional seat in Louisiana. American Lawyer ] * Law firms fear AI will lead to lower profits. Bloomberg Law News ] * Menendez mistrial bid fails because apparently collecting gold bars is not an official act for a government official. [

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

Federal law authorizes seven or more members (less than a majority) of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Reform to request and to receive information from government agencies that is relevant to the performance of their Committee duties. The property in question was D.C.’s rescheduled before the Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a five-page opinion, Thomas emphasized that government officials cannot dictate “what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both penned dissents from the court’s denial of review.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A federal appeals court in Louisiana agreed with Texan Zackey Rahimi, that the law, 18 U.S.C. § It acknowledged that, after Bruen , the government is not required to identify a “historical twin” to Section 922(g)(8). But the government had failed to do so in Rahimi’s case, the court of appeals concluded.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and the lawyers challenging the regulation (sometimes referred to as a “gag rule”) had asked the court to dismiss the cases in March because the Biden administration is in the process of unwinding the rule. Acting U.S. The justices also granted Arizona’s request to review a ruling by the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

In the case challenging President Biden’s revocation of the presidential permit, the federal government moved to dismiss, arguing that the case was moot, that the court lacked jurisdiction to grant relief against the president and the agency defendants, and that the states lacked standing, which also made venue improper. Trump , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He was prescient in recognizing the need for a strong national government to deal with urgent issues, such as civil rights. One point of connection between the Kennedy book and the Harlan book is that each revealed how historians’ fixation on the presidency often obscures the importance of other branches of government.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The justices invited Acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher to file briefs expressing the federal government’s views in three cases. Intratek Computer , the government will weigh in on the effect of a federal whistleblower statute on an arbitration agreement between an employer and its employee. In Robertson v. million in fees.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. County of Sacramento , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The two officials were Todd Stern, the former Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Susan Biniaz, formerly the State Department’s lead climate lawyer. Competitive Enterprise Institute v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

In other words, Scotty David used his own child sexual abuse experiences to shore up the credibility of two government witnesses. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani of the West Coast Trial Lawyers Association told BBC News that Scotty David’s conduct could be “potential grounds for a mistrial.”. Wade was decided.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2022

” Here is the column: “Major-question-land,” the term used by Louisiana solicitor general Elizabeth Murrill during Friday’s oral arguments over the Biden vaccine mandates, has an almost Disneyesque sound to it. That question takes some justices to a place that they would prefer not to go …”Major-question-land.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For instance, the National Right to Life Committee and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation argue that the court should reject the “categorical viability line” and replace it with a new “roadmap” under which courts would consider all state interests when analyzing the constitutionality of prohibitions on pre-viability elective abortions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Robinson , in which Louisiana had asked the justices to review a ruling by a federal district court that would have required the state’s legislature to draw a new congressional map that included a second majority-Black district. At the same time, the justices took two cases in which they had granted review off their docket.

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