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28 Apr 2010, 9:50 am
" At "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post that begins, "Justice Antonin Scalia, using history, sarcasm and political taunts, laid down a barrage of objections Wednesday to a plea that the Supreme Court create a new constitutional right of anonymity for individuals who sign petitions to get policy measures onto election ballots. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 7:24 am
Louisiana (07-343) [docket; cert. petition], in which the Supreme Court will consider whether a death sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when imposed for a crime in which the victim was not killed. [read post]
28 Dec 2005, 12:54 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for so-called "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla [JURIST news archive] have responded [reply brief, PDF] to the government's contention that Padilla's US Supreme Court appeal [certiorari petition, PDF; JURIST report] is moot and should be denied, insisting that his case "raises questions of profound constitutional importance about the government's military power over citizens in the [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 8:06 am
[JURIST] A man with an IQ of 67 was executed in Texas on Thursday after the US Supreme Court [official website] denied two pleas for delay that same day. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 11:27 am
Rees (07-5439) [docket; cert. petition], the Court will consider whether lethal injections of death row inmates constitute [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 6:36 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] on Thursday that Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury [official profile] did not violate the constitutional rights of voters who signed a petition to hold a referendum on a state law [Oregon House Bill 2007, PDF] establishing same-sex domestic partnerships. [read post]
20 May 2014, 7:16 am
Hill's lawyer said he plans to ask for reconsideration and will petition the US Supreme Court [official website] if the request is... [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 2:53 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that payments made by a debtor’s customers to its lender converting a pre-petition loan to a post-petition loan constituted disbursements for the purposes of calculating the statutory fees payable pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1930(a)(6). [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 2:53 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that payments made by a debtor’s customers to its lender converting a pre-petition loan to a post-petition loan constituted disbursements for the purposes of calculating the statutory fees payable pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1930(a)(6). [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 9:05 pm
It offers that proposed labels be checked unless they “establish speech restrictions that could raise constitutional questions. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 6:54 pm
He submitted however, that the court could direct that a concept of “just remission” be brought into use. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 1:31 pm
These and other petitions of the week are below: New Hampshire v. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 7:49 pm
The Constitution gives sole authority to grant clemency to the president. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 7:49 pm
The Constitution gives sole authority to grant clemency to the president. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 7:44 am
Several Minnesota voters petitioned the court to remove Trump from the ballot based on Section 3 of the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, which bars from office any individual who has engaged in insurrection after taking a government oath. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 3:22 am
As such, the defendant argued that each offense was a separate Petit Larceny crime of PL 155.25. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 2:15 pm
Courts construing the right to petition in other state constitutions have ruled that the right to petition does not include a right to a legislative hearing…. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 10:11 am
The doctor, David Nicholl, had challenged the use in executions of the state's new anesthetic used as part of the process. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 9:30 am
A description from the Press:Since the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention. [read post]
7 May 2024, 7:12 am
“While neither ‘assembly’ nor ‘petition’ is synonymous with ‘speech,’ the modern Supreme Court treats both as subsumed within an expansive ‘speech’ right, often called ‘freedom of expression,’” note scholars John Inazu and Bert Neuborne in their Interactive Constitution essay. [read post]
