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US appeals court denies Biden administration request to stay lower court ruling against federal student loan forgiveness plan

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday rejected the Biden Administration’s attempt to stay a lower court ruling which found President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unlawful. This is just the latest in a series of legal blows to the Biden administration’s federal student loan forgiveness plan.

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Court will review legality of Biden’s student-debt relief, but plan remains on hold for now

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will fast-track a challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program and hear oral argument in February, the court said Thursday. The $400 billion program will remain on hold in the meantime due to lower-court rulings that have blocked the government from implementing it.

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25 Years After Court Ruling, Released Sex Offenders Endure ‘Shadow Prisons’

The Crime Report

The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute double jeopardy since it merely authorized “civil” rather than “criminal” commitments. As with other sex offense laws life the public registry, these laws only serve to extend punishment beyond a court sentence.

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Alabama House of Representatives passes bill defining sex based on reproductive systems

JURIST

Other states, such as Nebraska and Oklahoma , have succeeded in enacting legislation that defines sex on reproductive terms, and Mississippi is currently attempting to do the same. In 2023, DuBose sponsored a bill that similarly sought to define sex based on individuals’ reproductive systems, but that bill was indefinitely postponed.

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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

LawSites

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. as well as president of the company that created Decisis, Legal InQuery Solutions. I now have more information on the launch of the service, based on my interview yesterday with Jeffrey S.

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Tarasoff Revisited: Nebraska Court Rejects Liability Of Psychiatrist After Patient Murders Girlfriend

JonathanTurley

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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Doubts About Lethal Injection Drugs Reignite Capital Punishment Debate

The Crime Report

Nebraska and South Carolina now stand out as particular circumstances in which states are still wielding capital punishment — but without the lethal injection drugs. .