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DeVillier v. Texas, 601 U.S. 285 (2024), was a case that the Supreme Court of the United States decided on April 16, 2024. [1] [2] The case dealt with the Supreme Court's takings clause jurisprudence. Because the case touched on whether or not the 5th Amendment is self-executing, the case had implications for Trump v.
Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from being sued ...
Ruiz v. Estelle , 503 F. Supp. 1265 (S.D. Tex. 1980), filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas , eventually became the most far-reaching lawsuit on the conditions of prison incarceration in American history.
The verdict is in – Kaitlin Armstrong has been found guilty of murdering Moriah ‘Mo’ Wilson. Proceedings will now resume tomorrow at 9am CT, at which time Armstrong will be sentenced. She ...
The initial jury verdict awarded Jennifer Harris, who was a district sales manager in Texas, $120,000 for prior personal damages, $1,040,000 for future damages and $365,000,000 in punitive damages ...
JMOL motions may also be made after the verdict is returned and are then called "renewed" motions for judgment as a matter of law (RJMOL), but the motion is still commonly known by its former name, judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or JNOV (from the English judgment and the Latin non obstante veredicto).
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional.
Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...