CASE PREVIEW By Amy Howe on Jan 5, 2024 at 10:35 am George Sheetz in front of the house he built in Placerville, Calif. (Pacific Legal Foundation) When George Sheetz applied in 2016 to build a single-family home on property that he owned, the California county where he lived required him to pay a “traffic [...]read moreLatest property rights fight comes before justices
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Jan 5, 2024 at 6:41 pm Visitors outside the Supreme Court on Thursday. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon granted a request from Idaho and the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to temporarily put on hold a ruling by a federal district court that would require emergency rooms in [...]read moreJustices take up abortion case pitting state against federal law
CASE PREVIEW By Amy Howe on Jan 9, 2024 at 2:52 pm The court will hear oral argument in Smith v. Arizona on Jan. 10. (Abbie Fitz via Shutterstock) Jason Smith claims that when an expert witness testified in Arizona’s drug possession case against him using drug analysis performed by a former state employee, it [...]read moreJustices to hear cross-examination dispute over drug analyst’s testimony