By Avalon Zoppo | September 23, 2024
"I'm puzzled, because it seems to me that your whole argument is premised on some idea that Rahimi changed the landscape quite a bit… and, I think the whole court, actually on this point, said that Bruen is still the test," said Judge Jennifer Elrod.
By Elisa Reiter, Daniel Pollack, and Jeffrey Siegel | September 16, 2024
"The case of J.M.P., Jr. sets an important precedent for future legal decisions regarding mental health and ownership of firearms," write Elisa Reiter, Daniel Pollack, and Jeffrey Siegel.
By Avalon Zoppo | August 27, 2024
The panel found that the lower court wrongly dismissed the electric car company's allegations that members of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission and the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association conspired to stop it from carrying out its business model of directly leasing and servicing cars through its own stores.
By Adolfo Pesquera | August 23, 2024
The county's main argument was that the state constitution requires every court of appeals district is limited to a subdivision of the state's territory.
By Avalon Zoppo | August 20, 2024
The request follows a federal judge having thrown out an anti-pregnancy-discrimination law, saying the House of Representatives lacked a constitutional quorum of members present.
By Charles Toutant | July 24, 2024
"So it doesn't matter what the content of the act is. If the act violated the quorum clause in the way it was passed through Congress, then it's invalid, no matter how laudable the goals of the legislation might be. If a law is unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional," plaintiff's attorney Eric Heigis said.
By Adolfo Pesquera | July 18, 2024
"We reject that result because the U.S. Constitution cannot properly be so interpreted," the court majority said. "The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not bar states from permanently disenfranchising felons."
By Jimmy Hoover | July 2, 2024
A lower court said the law—which fines pornographic websites for failing to demand users' identification—is "rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in preventing minors' access to pornography."
By Jimmy Hoover | July 1, 2024
In its decision, the high court sent internet industry challenges back to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh circuits to examine whether the statutes' unconstitutional applications "substantially outweigh" the constitutional ones.
By Avalon Zoppo | June 21, 2024
"Though this case concerns federal law and necessarily implicates concerns of nationwide uniformity, it does not fall into one of the narrow categories that we have previously identified as particularly appropriate for universal injunctive relief," the appeals court held.
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