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Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar

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Arizona (Nov. 1): Whether the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling that a state rule of criminal procedure barred an Arizona death-row inmate from obtaining relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment against him. Arizona (Nov. Hendrix (Nov. United States (Nov. Cochran (Nov.

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Justices decline to reach merits of conservative states’ attempt to revive public charge rule

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Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out an effort by Arizona and 12 other states with Republican attorneys general to defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. The case, Arizona v.