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29 Apr 2010, 6:54 am by Erin Miller
Office of the Commissioner of Baseball Docket: 09-914 Issues: (1) Whether the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act prohibits Delaware from using sports lotteries to generate revenue to alleviate its substantial budget deficits and satisfy its constitutional balanced-budget obligations; and (2) whether the court below erred in deciding the merits in an appeal of a denial of a preliminary injunction brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 9:22 am by Christa Culver
MontanaDocket: 10-218Issue(s): 1) Whether the constitutional test for determining whether a section of a river is navigable for title purposes requires a trial court to determine, based on evidence, whether the relevant stretch of the river was navigable at the time the state joined the Union; and 2) whether, when a hydropower project is licensed under the Federal Power Act, a state's attempt to claim title and impose rent obligations for use of the riverbeds is… [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 4:06 am by David Black
More than 30,000 individuals are already in possession of medical marijuana cards permitting them to use the drug in Arizona. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 5:09 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is the petition: US v Bryant Cert Petition Question presented: Section 117(a) of Title 18, United States Code, makes it a federal crime for any person to “commit[] a domestic assault within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or Indian country” if the person “has a final conviction on at least 2 separate prior occasions in Federal, State, or Indian tribal court proceedings for” enumerated domestic-violence… [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 2:42 pm by Nadia Kayyali
” If you support the right of journalists to keep us all informed world citizens, sign the petition today. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 10:56 am by Erin Miller
United States Issues: (1) Whether a prior conviction for carrying a concealed weapon constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 4:58 am by Dennis Crouch
Whether covered business method review, an adversarial process used by the Patent and Trademark Office to analyze the validity of existing patents, violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury. 2. [read post]
1 May 2008, 2:24 pm
Williams, and under what circumstances can those constitutional rights be deemed forfeited? [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 6:44 am by Christa Culver
PierceDocket: 09-1353Issue(s): Whether the court of appeals misinterpreted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 5:59 pm
Alaska Issue: Does a state statute that allows a percentage of a civil judgment to be taken for public use violate the Takings Clause of the United States Constitution? [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 2:54 pm by John Elwood
Cates, 20-1207Issue: Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a “second or successive” petition under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 6:31 am
Circuit’s previous decision in this case that detainees have no constitutional rights? [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 12:54 pm
"I think now that we have a petition, we need to hire a constitutional professor or judge or someone who can look at it and advise us -- is this constitutional or challengeable, and what should we do? [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 8:33 pm
  This is a very sad day because today marks the day that the US Supreme Court ignored the US Constitution, ignored bankruptcy laws and made it all but certain that it will be impossible for most businesses to afford to borrow money, and extremely difficult for even the most healthy businesses to borrow money. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 2:29 pm
The language used in the Answer Brief seems to pretty clearly argue that the Claim 1 of the Petition cannot be presented in a Rule 3.851 motion. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 7:00 am by Andrew Hamm
The post Petitions of the week appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 1:51 am by Lawrence Solum
Circulation of constitutional initiative petitions is the most common form of direct democracy in Montana, but at the polls voters more frequently shape the Constitution by approving amendments referred by the Legislature. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 2:10 pm
Heller (07-290) [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the Supreme Court will consider whether the Second Amendment [text] to the US Constitution prohibits the District of Columbia from banning private [read post]