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Federal appeals court blocks Missouri abortion restrictions

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court decision to block enforcement of a Missouri law that would place tight restrictions on access to abortion. The first bans abortion after eight weeks, with an exception in the case of a medical emergency but not in cases of rape or incest.

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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny

Constitutional Law Reporter

“The HEROES Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’” provisions of the student aid laws, “but does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the Court.

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Don’t let the executive abuse emergency powers to raid the Treasury

SCOTUSBlog

28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the legality of President Joe Biden’s massive student-loan forgiveness plan. If the statute is ambiguous, courts must presume that Congress have not given the agency the power in question. Several court decisions ruled against Trump on the merits.

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Abortion Battle Enters Second Phase

The Crime Report

Wade, o pponents of abortion are pushing for stricter bans at state levels—even criminalizing women who travel outside their states where abortion remains legal. So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision.

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In rejecting a prisoner’s post-conviction claim, court plants seeds for narrowing habeas relief

SCOTUSBlog

(The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Missouri that such shackling practices violate a defendant’s due process rights.) The answer to that question turned on the relationship between a Supreme Court decision and a congressional statute. In Brecht v. Vannoy , but now he has a majority willing to sign on to it.

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Challenges to a Washington state legislative district

SCOTUSBlog

The legality of LD-15, which had an approximately 51.5% Both cases are now before the Supreme Court. Because of the wrinkles of the court’s jurisdictional statutes, Garcia comes from the three-judge district court directly to the Supreme Court as an appeal over which the court has mandatory jurisdiction.

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Are Collective Net Zero Targets Anticompetitive?

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Two principal federal antitrust statutes govern agreements among competitors: the Sherman Act of 1890, which prohibits monopolization and unlawful trade restraints, and the Clayton Act of 1914, which identifies additional prohibited conduct, including with respect to interlocking directorates, and mergers and acquisitions.

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