The Texas Tribune “The Supreme Court on Friday said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. The justices’ decision to take the landmark social media cases Read more…
ABA Journal “Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for felons convicted of some crimes serves no legitimate penological purpose and violates their rights under the Eighth Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled. In a 2-1 Aug. 4 opinion, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans struck down Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether some administrative trials by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission violate the Seventh Amendment’s right to a jury. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case June 30, report Reuters, Bloomberg Law and a press release by the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public-interest law firm. Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires companies to consent to personal jurisdiction in state courts if they do business there. The high court upheld the law in a 14th Amendment due process challenge by the the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. But a partial concurrence Read more…
“New revelations about a U.S. Supreme Court justice’s undisclosed free trip to Alaska have apparently prompted Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin to announce that his panel will mark up ethics legislation for the high court next month. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, tweeted Wednesday that the Supreme Court “is in Read more…
“There is no “special First Amendment protection” for product parodies that use trademarks as their own trademarks, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case involving Jack Daniel’s and the maker of a parody dog toy. The Supreme Court unanimously vacated a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court Read more…
“A man who walked into a homeowner’s open garage and stole his leaf blower didn’t commit burglary because he didn’t use “force, stealth or deception” to gain entrance, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled. The Ohio Supreme Court vacated the burglary conviction of Donald Bertram and ordered a lower court Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider overruling a 1984 decision that established Chevron deference—the principle that federal courts should defer to reasonable federal agency views when Congress passes ambiguous laws. The Supreme Court agreed to consider the issue when it granted cert Monday in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Read more…
“A federal appeals court has upheld a California law that bans honking your car horn—except when reasonably needed to warn of a safety hazard. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco ruled April 7 against Susan Porter, who was cited for honking her horn in support of Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a parody dog toy called “Bad Spaniels” is entitled to protection from trademark infringement and dilution-by-tarnishment claims by Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 21 to review a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Read more…