Tag: Constitutional rights
Law Graduate Settles First Amendment Lawsuit Over Repurposed Skeleton Displays
A Tennessee woman named Alexis Luttrell recently reached a settlement in her First Amendment lawsuit against Germantown, Tennessee. Germantown tried to give her a citation for keeping up her Halloween skeletons for longer than...
Extreme Judicial Malfunction in Death Penalty Case, According to 6th Circuit
A federal appeals court recently made a significant decision in a death penalty case, granting relief to the inmate who challenged his sentencing. The court found that an Ohio judge displayed bias by involving...
Banning Assault Weapons for Excessive Self-Defense Needs
An en banc federal appeals court recently upheld Maryland's ban on assault-style weapons in a 10-5 decision. The court stated that these military-style weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment because they are...
Supreme Court Decision: Family Sues FBI SWAT Team Raid
In a recent turn of events, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on a case that delves into a family's harrowing experience with a mistaken SWAT team raid conducted by the FBI in 2017....
Upheld SCOTUS Ruling on Restraining-Order Gun Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court recently made a decision to uphold a federal law that prohibits individuals who are under domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing guns. This ruling was supported by Chief Justice John Roberts,...