JURIST
MARCH 8, 2024
The so-called “constitutional carry” bill allows individuals who are 18 and above and legally able to own a firearm to carry that firearm either openly or concealed. 16 other states currently allow legal carry through reciprocity agreements with South Carolina without any other restrictions. .”
The Crime Report
JULY 21, 2021
The Colorado Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a proposal that would fix a decades-old legal standard that has made it easy for attorneys to exclude people of color, especially African Americans, from serving on juries, reports the Colorado Sun. The 1986 U.S.
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The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2022
Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? public seems to feel the same way. Supreme Court. In its 1896 decision, the Court decided 7-1 that the Louisiana law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
JURIST
AUGUST 4, 2021
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a complaint arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague. The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana agreed and issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the law. A three-judge panel of the appellate court reversed the lower court decision in a 2-1 split.
LawSites
MARCH 18, 2024
Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law.
The Crime Report
MAY 17, 2022
Many of the Supreme Court cases that get significant coverage and public discussion are on the merits, because this is where legal scholars and public figures can weigh in and analyze the applicable laws. That means no briefs are submitted, no arguments are heard, and there is no analysis from legal scholars. Louisiana v.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
In Harlan’s case, the story arc that first attracted me was the notion of posthumous vindication – how a man who went so far out on a limb in his time could land so comfortably in the mainstream of legal thought. Harlan dissented in all those cases. What is your response to that? He had a strong sense of American exceptionalism.
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