By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
District Court properly found that appellant's facial challenges and its as–applied Fourth Amendment challenge to Delaware's escheats law were unripe but erred in finding that appellant's procedural due process claim was not justiciable because the claim satisfied all three 'Step-Saver' prongs. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Having employees with religious objections to contraceptives maintain employer-provided health insurance with contraceptive coverage pursuant to the ACA's contraceptive mandate did not violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because the mandate did not impose a substantial burden on the employees' free exercise of religion. Summary judgment affirmed.
By Andrew Denney | August 31, 2017
The settlement was reached as attorneys from the ACLU and other groups representing those affected by both travel bans prepare to clash with government attorneys before the U.S. Supreme Court for oral arguments over a revised travel ban released in March.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 31, 2017
A day after he announced his support of a 23-state coalition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a Ten Commandments display on First Amendment grounds, Georgia General Chris Carr said Thursday he has joined a 21-state coalition defending the rights of gun owners under the Second Amendment.
By John Council | August 31, 2017
A San Antonio federal judge has blocked the implementation of Texas' so-called "sanctuary cities" law which would have allowed local police to check the immigration status of detainees and imposed criminal penalties on local officials who refuse to cooperate in efforts to remove people from the country.
By Catherine Wilson | August 31, 2017
The University of Florida expects to be sued for not hosting National Policy Institute president Richard Spencer. It just doesn't know when.
By Andrew Rosati and Fabiola Zerpa | August 30, 2017
Venezuela's socialist regime has consolidated near-total political control after installing an all-powerful constituent assembly. Resolving the economic crisis and coming up with $3.5 billion for bond payments through November however will prove trickier.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 30, 2017
Attorneys for a former National Security Agency contractor charged with leaking information about Russian hacking of the nation's election infrastructure to an online magazine say FBI agents violated her constitutional rights when they detained and questioned her prior to her arrest.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 29, 2017
A rare three-judge panel in Atlanta has dramatically narrowed a federal voting rights suit that accused the Georgia General Assembly of unconstitutional racial and partisan gerrymandering.
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | August 29, 2017
In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp analyze a recent case where the court wrestled with the modern world's reliance on foreign governments to help investigate and develop cases but declined to allow the government's investigatory needs to outweigh defendants' constitutional rights.
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