JURIST
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The nation asserts that the city lacks criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans on the tribe’s lands without express congressional authorization, as per the 2020 US Supreme Court case McGirt v. The Muscogee Creek Tribe is originally from an area straddling the border between what is now Georgia and Alabama.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
In 1968, Congress transferred the federal government’s trust responsibility for the Pueblo to the state of Texas, following a similar action it had taken in 1954 for a much larger reservation held by the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas. Three provisions of the Restoration Act are relevant.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In reaching its decision, the Court confirmed that the Voting Rights Act prohibits discriminatory effects, not just discriminatory intent.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Pritzker , Nos.
LawSites
MARCH 18, 2024
We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. This was not easy.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 4, 2023
When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. He doesn’t want a legal precedent prohibiting the admission of his research.”
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Boynton’s victory inspired civil rights activists, known as the Freedom Riders, to travel on interstate buses in the South to test the Supreme Court’s ruling. Ruth Ginsburg was one of the members of the Court who achieved greatness before she became a great justice,” he wrote. But perhaps former Justice David Souter put it best.
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