Interview: David Savage discusses current Supreme Court casesNEAL CONAN
ve reevaluated our stance on the topic and have decided not to handle these cases anymore,” Kilgore [said]…after learning how his decisions had harmed…women, several of whom received stiff prison sentences because they failed to [jump through all the hoops set up by] the…drug court ...
to a US Supreme Court dismissal of an ADA tester case and a new final rule regarding beneficial ownership information under the Corporate Transparency Act, we have recently seen significant developments in estate planning, elder law, and business law. ...
Its namesake comes from its founder Henry Campbell Black who published the first edition in 1891. Today, it is the reference of choice for legal briefs and court opinions as well as being cited as a secondary legal authority in U.S. Supreme Court cases.Check out a timeline hereof all previ...
U.S. Court Cases Photo Source: Getty Images SCOTUS Blocks Ghost Gun Ruling: On Friday, July 28, 2023, a lower court ruling to prohibit the sale of privately manufactured "ghost guns" was overturned by Justice Samuel Alito. The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to halt the nationw...
If there is a sliver of good news, it’s that two Supreme Court justices – Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, whom we cited purposefully and visibly in our brief because we hoped they would carry the matter forward into review for us –didwant to review the cases. They “dissented” from ...
The decisions handed down by the US Supreme Court in 1989-91 in a series of cases regarding abortion rights suggested that Roe vs Wade would be overturned in 1992 through Planned Parenthood vs Casey. Unexpectedly and despite a 5-4 majority opposed to Roe 6 Justices announced support for the...
Since 1894 there had been smallish though increasingly ominous clusters of cases around the country. The first, in Vermont, affected 132 and killed 18; strangely, domestic animals were also affected even though polio is a disease of humans. The worst so far had been in 1907, which began in...
A decade earlier, Kansas had become the first state in the union to outlaw non-medicinal alcohol. Almost immediately, and to the disappointment of the temperance movement, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that allowed for the interstate importation of alcohol in its original packaging. That ...
Giving a bribe is an offense, except whenone is forced to give a bribe. But it should bereported within seven days. The trial in cases of bribe and corruptionshould be completed by the special judgewithin two years. In case of delays, the reasons for the samemust be recorded and the ...