SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994. In Bassett v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Inslee , a challenge to a Washington state law that shields the personal information of in-home care providers from public disclosure but allows the state to provide that data to the union that represents the providers. Garland is an immigration case. On Monday, the court denied review to just one of those cases, Boardman v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Smith , which held that the free exercise clause does not prohibit the enforcement of generally applicable laws that incidentally burden religious conduct. involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

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. Arizona Federal Court Declined to Put Challenge to Trump “Waters of the United States” Rule on Hold. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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