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New York Times
March 24, 2018
Lawyers who specialize in employment cases said that the decision, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, was highly ... Mr. Kalir said that at least several Supreme Court justices, if presented with the issue, would probably vote to overturn the ruling on the ground thatÃâà...
KNSS
March 24, 2018
Kansas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that prevents the state from cutting off Medicaid funds to a Planned Parenthood affiliate. Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer said Thursday that the state is seeking to reverse a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision last month.
Hays Daily News
March 23, 2018
Gov. Jeff Colyer filed a petition Thursday for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overturning a ruling that upheld Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. The Brownback administration moved in 2016 to block state Medicaid funds from being used to reimburse services at Planned Parenthood, but the rule quickly wasÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 23, 2018
MADRID (Reuters) - Twenty-five Catalan leaders will be tried for rebellion, embezzlement or disobeying the state, Spain's Supreme Court ruled on Friday, in a ... The ruling raised the stakes in Madrid's efforts to contain separatists in Catalonia, where a banned referendum backed independence last year.
Wisconsin Law Journal (blog)
March 23, 2018
Passage of the Cloud Act probably would end a U.S. Supreme Court dispute between Microsoft and the Trump administration over emails the U.S. wants as ... Earlier proposals to update the law foundered, but the prospect of a Supreme Court ruling increased the urgency to find a measure both sides couldÃâà...
Law.com
March 23, 2018
A recent memorandum from the NLRB general counsel's office identified 152 cases awaiting the Supreme Court decision. ... The more than 150 cases pending at the National Labor Relations Board and federal appeals courts reveal just how far a U.S. Supreme Court case could reach after the justices thisÃâà...
The Hill
March 23, 2018
"Threats of impeachment directed against Justices because of their decision in a particular case are an attack upon an independent judiciary, which is an essential ... The U.S. Supreme Court has twice declined requests from Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania to block the new map from taking effect.
National Catholic Reporter
March 23, 2018
After multiple appeals on the state level that affirmed Hidalgo's initial sentencing, Hidalgo filed a suit with the U.S. Supreme Court in August 2017 ... Georgia decision, which deemed the death penalty unconstitutional due to the arbitrariness of the sentencing and stated that "these death sentences are cruelÃâà...
ABC News
March 23, 2018
Kansas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that prevents the state from cutting off Medicaid funds to a Planned Parenthood affiliate. Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer said Thursday that the state is seeking to reverse a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision last month.
NPR
March 22, 2018
But there was at least one place where the work went on, and it always does — the U.S. Supreme Court. ... At the Supreme Court, snow is simply not considered an excuse for failure to function. ... Justice Stephen Breyer announced the second decision, a tax ruling with potentially broad implications.
Buffalo News
March 22, 2018
It took a decision from the U.S Supreme Court on Wednesday, but the former Buffalo small business owner won his appeal of a four-year-old ... The court's decison reverses the lower court rulings that went against Marinello, including the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding his conviction.
Texas Tribune
March 21, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, ordering a federal appellate court to reconsider providing funding for him to investigate previously ... The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the lower court "did not apply the correct legal standard" in that decision. JusticeÃâà...
Law.com
March 13, 2018
A U.S. Supreme Court capital case could expand the federal jurisdiction over crimes involving Indians in eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa. ... The Justice Department, agreeing with the potential ramifications of the lower court decision, filed a rare, “uninvited” amicus brief this week supporting Blatt'sÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
The Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court's ruling that threatened financing for the charter schools and their 16,000 students. The high court's decision was 5-2. The schools were granted charters directly from the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, unlikeÃâà...
HR Dive
March 13, 2018
In 'most important labor decision in decades,' SCOTUS appears ready to weaken unions ... The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County ... Wilson acknowledged that some believe a ruling in Janus' favor might actually help unions. They say that ifÃâà...
WAFB.com
March 13, 2018
"Charter schools have been in Louisiana for over 25 years and today's ruling by the Louisiana Supreme Court confirms what we have known all ... and that we will continue to be trusted with our children's education decisions," said Christin White-Kaiser, the parent of a Type 2 public charter school student.
The Philadelphia Tribune
March 13, 2018
As a longtime bus driver with the School District of Philadelphia, Charnel Brownlee is concerned about the impact the Supreme Court decision could have on ... district custodian and member of SEIU, is concerned about how the court's ruling could impact her daughters, grandchildren and younger workers.
WWL
March 13, 2018
“We are disappointed with the Louisiana Supreme Court's decision,” said Amir Ali, an attorney for the MacArthur Justice Center. “Rogers Lacaze was denied the basic principles of fairness and due process at his trial, and we remain hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will resolve this miscarriage of justice.
U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
The legal fight over running North Carolina's elections didn't end when the state Supreme Court refused Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's request to ... But Cooper's lawyers said the ruling meant the whole law should be voided and asked the justices to overturn the judges' decision. In a one-sentence rulingÃâà...
Law.com
March 12, 2018
Just as our republic somehow survived without impeachment hearings after five Republican-appointed U.S. Supreme Court justices in Bush v. ... Court's gerrymandering decisions will face retention elections in 2025, so if the Pennsylvania electorate remains truly disconsolate over that ruling at that point,Ãâà...
CNN
March 10, 2018
The case was devised ultimately to topple a 1978 US Supreme Court decision that first endorsed college affirmative action, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Lawyers for both sides submitted a status report and proposed schedule Friday in US District Court in Boston. Harvard has asked that aÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 10, 2018
The New Mexico Supreme Court has denied an appeal challenging the sentence of decades in prison for a man who was convicted of committing rape ... the New Mexico decision says that doesn't violate U.S. Supreme Court rulings that found mandatory juvenile life-without-parole terms unconstitutional.
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 10, 2018
He pointed to U.S. Supreme Court decisions banning prison terms that provide no meaningful chance at freedom for juveniles convicted of a crime that does ... Ira's case would not fall under U.S. Supreme Court rulings on life without parole for juveniles, Nakamura said, because he was not sentenced to lifeÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
March 10, 2018
Democrats hope the new map, widely viewed as more favorable to their candidates, may help them retake the U.S. House majority this year. ... In a separate case, the top-ranking Republicans in the House and Senate who lost the state Supreme Court decision have asked the U.S. Supreme Court toÃâà...
NBC 10 Philadelphia
March 10, 2018
A request by Pennsylvania elections officials from using a map of the state's congressional districts produced by the state Supreme Court last month was in the hands of a three-judge federal panel Friday, at the same time a similar effort was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawyers for the plaintiffs,Ãâà...
Tulsa World
March 9, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to review a June 2017 decision from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a ruling in favor of the University of Tulsa in a lawsuit that claimed the school displayed deliberate indifference in its handling of rape allegations against a formerÃâà...
The Hill
March 5, 2018
The court heard argument on the same issue two years ago, but Justice Scalia died before the court issued its decision, and the other justices split 4-4. ... Detroit Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that public-sector agency fees were constitutional to the extent the fees covered the costs ofÃâà...
MyAJC
March 5, 2018
In its 25-page ruling, the Georgia Supreme Court said the U.S. Supreme Court has never decided a case like this one. But nothing so far indicates the murder suspect, Ryan Alexander Duke, would not receive a fair trial, the ruling states. “Here, although the record shows significant media interest in the caseÃâà...
MyAJC
March 5, 2018
In addition to the Maxim case, two other strip clubs, Mardi Gras and Flashers, have challenged the constitutionality of the city's ordinances in federal court. They lost at the 11th Circuit Court, and are appealing the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. In recent years, the state supreme court has heard otherÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 5, 2018
The Trump administration announced in September it would end the DACA program by March 5, setting up a six-month deadline for Congress to address those who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and protected from the threat of deportation. But the Supreme Court's decision not to consider theÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
March 5, 2018
(CN) – A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Ninth Circuit correctly reviewed a bankruptcy court's ruling for clear legal error rather than employing the de novo “arm's length” standard ... U.S. Bank challenged the decision and filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. News & World Report
March 5, 2018
GOP leaders believed that was enough to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. Cooper's lawyers had argued the Supreme Court ruling meant the judges should void the entire law. That would have opened the door to Cooper's wishes and revert to separate elections and ethics boards, and DemocratsÃâà...
Austin American-Statesman
March 5, 2018
Monday's Supreme Court ruling focused on a move to intervene in the dispute by the U.S. Interior Department, which essentially backed Texas' complaint and sought to preserve the federal government's interests in the region, particularly its treaty obligations to provide Rio Grande water to Mexico.
NPR
March 5, 2018
But what does the U.S. Supreme Court have to say about gun control? After a couple of important cases nearly a decade ago, ... Two years later, in a second case, the court made clear that its decision applied to the states as well as the federal government. Not an absolute right. The court has never said,Ãâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 4, 2018
An unfavorable ruling from the Supreme Court could diminish union membership in California by 5 to 30 percent, depending on what other laws are in place, said California Labor Federation spokesman Steve Smith. It's unlikely to strike an immediate blow to how much unions spend on political campaignsÃâà...
