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The long conference’s relists

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Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. In dissent, Judge Andrew Oldham said “there’s zero difficulty … in figuring out whether it was animus or [Gonzalez’s] purportedly criminal conduct that caused her arrest.”

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Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar

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Share The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. 11, to Nov.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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And I had their ear, explaining Supreme Court decisions on a regular basis over many years. Before becoming clerk of the Supreme Court, Stevas was the clerk of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an assistant U.S. Darius Swann helped transform the promise of Brown into a court-enforced mandate.

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Blockbuster watch: Affirmative action, same-sex weddings, and other big relists

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University of North Carolina , 21-707. The court earlier asked for the U.S. With the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who provided a necessary vote to the McGirt majority, and the confirmation of her replacement, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the state is now asking the court to reverse itself. They invoke Rapanos v.

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