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In-person arguments come out of storage

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After a particularly busy and newsy couple of months for the Supreme Court and its shadow — er, emergency — docket and for some individual justices and their public appearances, the focus shifts back to the regular merits docket today. Also filing into that gallery are the justices’ law clerks and a few other court employees.

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Two cases. Three hours of arguments. Four sets of lawyers. Fifty mentions of abortion. One pair of red socks.

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Texas by saying the Supreme Court would weigh “the constitutionality of the Texas abortion law.”. As one justice would say a little later, “we’re obviously not dealing with” the merits of the state’s restrictive law today. 8 from federal court review. Not so fast. Marc Hearron argues for Whole Woman’s Health.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a U.S. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. and non-U.S.