#Courts

Josh Douglas

JoshuaADouglas

THREAD on #SCOTUS 4-4 decision refusing to intervene in Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision. It's a BIG deal.Normally, the U.S. Supreme Court won't hear cases from state courts about state law.

🇮🇳 iCJ (#IndiaFightsChineseVirus)

CJ_India

Selective #FreedomOfExpression?#1. Dissent a “Safety Valve” of democracy. #2. Labelling Dissent Anti-National Strikes at Heart of Democracy. #3. Bombay HC forces deletion of 4 scenes from #JollyLLB2.#4. #SudarshanNews show on

Dominic Casciani

BBCDomC

Hello from the Supreme Court (confusingly, today only, in the Lord Chief Justice's court at the Royal Courts of Justice.) A qualified barrister Tim Crosland might be jailed today for

Sewell Chan

sewellchan

If either nominee dies or withdraws before the Nov. 3 election, his party — @DNC or @GOP — has to designate the replacement. But whether there's enough time for that nominee

Marin K Levy

marinklevy

A thread about court-packing (and unpacking) of state supreme courts, based upon an essay I wrote for a @WMLawReview symposium (found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3595477). There is something of a push-pull

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

Important here to hold on to two critical points.https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/1302934662734643200 1. With one huge exception, UK legislation can say what it likes. But - by section 7A of the Withdrawal Agreement

Deborah Pearlstein

DebPearlstein

This is the clearest account I've seen of conduct by federal agents that, if accurate, seems plainly beyond the bounds of any plausible statutory authority. Deeply, deeply concerning.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/portland-federa

Pulat Yunusov

PulatYunusov

Chief Justice Morawetz: OBA and MAG helped set up remote courts during the COVID-19 pandemic.https://twitter.com/PulatYunusov/status/1245778002170073094 BREAKING:Chief Justice: "We cannot go back" on electronic courts. "Significant rel

David Lidington

DLidington

Dan, Treaties the UK has agreed are binding on us in international law but not made effective in domestic law save where specifically provided for in an Act of Parliament

कुशल मेहरा

kushal_mehra

This wave will go in a month or so. After that ask your central government why the credit line to SII & BB not released earlier? Ask every state government

Marin K Levy

marinklevy

@TheAtlantic has a new article, suggesting we should worry about the courts of appeals in 20 years b/c many Trump appointees will be Chief Judges and might manipulate panel assignments

Jan Hasselman

JanHasselman

1. Federal court litigator here. “Originalism” isn’t a legitimate judicial philosophy, its just cover for a different set of policy preferences. Most of those policy preferences are deeply unpopular. 2.

Dylan Quigley

DylanNQuigley

Tens of thousands of Californians may forced out of their homes by Labor Day. A tsunami of evictions has been held at bay only by an obscure procedural decision made

Molly Beck

MollyBeck

BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Courts blocks @GovEvers' order to shut down Tuesday's election. 4-2 decision with conservative justices in favor and liberal justices dissenting.

Shannon Kilpatrick

ShannonKilpatri

You may have seen that the Washington Supreme Court found unconstitutional a citizen initiative to reduce or eliminate motor vehicle taxes for major transportation projects. The opinion is here: https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/983208

Shashank Kumar

SPoK44

1/n #Coronavirus and #InternationalLaw: I think by now developments in several fields show that international litigation cannot be a substitute for negotiations. 2/n The efforts of international lawyers seeking answers