A federal district court in Syracuse, New York,blocked provisionsof the law from being enforced after drawing on the framework set forth in the Bruen decision, but the 2nd Circuit allowed them to go into effect. The gun owners asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but the court declined,lea...
as he is one of the justices who sends the most law clerks to work at the Court. But he does not return that respect; his opinion in Lebamoff includes this snarky little line that seems to deny the Supreme Court's authority: "But the Twenty-first Amendment leaves these considerations to...
Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling in 2011, concluding that the plaintiffs had a "reasonable fear of future injury." Now, the Supreme Court has weighed in to settle the issue, reversing the 2nd Circuit's judgment on a 5-4 vote and agreeing with the government that the ...
The majority's written decision was succinct and straight-forward. In ruling that "there can be no serious doubt that" the Citizens United decision applies to Montana state law, the Court wrote that "political speech does not lose First Amendment protection simply because its source is a corpora...
Beeson said she now plans to ask the Department of Justice to agree to drop the case, given what she described as the court's "very strong indication" that the law violates the First Amendment. "The government has wasted enough tax dollars trying to defend twice a law that the court has...
United States Supreme Court justices from 1905 to 1945. The ninesupreme court justicesare tasked with upholding the United States Constitution. Their rulings onlaws are meant to be derived from the Constitution, not their own opinions. As the highest court, the United States Supreme Court has th...
A divided 2nd Circuit panel reversed the district court's decision in May, after which the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to review the appeals court's ruling and temporarily put the bankruptcy plan on hold. The high courtagreed to pause the planin August and said it would take ...
Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the case in light of their ruling last November in another case also involving a claim arising from the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment bar on cruel and unusual punishment. In that ruling, the justices let another Texas inmate ...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a state law which governs how much money workers who are injured on the job can collect.
The provision “the people’s court shall make a ruling not to acknowledge a civil judgment if acknowledging it would violate fundamental principles of state laws, such as the one-China principle, or undermine state sovereignty, security, or social public interests” is consistent with analogous ...