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US Supreme Court allows North Carolina Republican lawmakers to defend voter ID law

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that two Republican state legislators may step in to defend the state’s voter identification law, even though the state’s Democratic attorney general is already doing so.

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In North Carolina voter-ID case, another question of intervention driven by partisan tension

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Share For the third time this term, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether someone can stage an intervention – the legal kind, that is. The North Carolina legislature passed the voter-ID law at the center of the case in December 2018. Philip Berger, the leader of the North Carolina Senate. Background.

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Twelve cases added to Supreme Court calendar

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On Friday, the justices agreed to decide whether the Nollan / Dolan test applies to a California man’s challenge to a development fee, or whether – as a California appeals court ruled – the fee is instead immune from such review because it was authorized by legislation. A federal appeals court ruled that Fikre’s case was not moot.

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Trump’s steel tariffs, UNC affirmative action, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

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In their petition, the challengers argue that the Federal Circuit’s decision contradicts a prior Supreme Court decision that held that Section 232 is not an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the executive branch because the statute establishes clear preconditions that the president must follow. Haystings v.

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U.S. Supreme Court Decides Great Lakes

Conflict of Laws

Because the claims were based on Pennsylvania statutes, it argued, they were barred by the choice-of-law clause. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. The Third Circuit ruled in favor of Raiders. This post is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog ] Raiders opposed this motion.

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‘Invisibility’ of Prosecutor Misconduct Erodes Trust: PA Report

The Crime Report

In the absence of oversight boards and civil litigation, criminal charges against prosecutors and ethics board disciplinary measures are the only means of incentivizing appropriate prosecutorial actions. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. Certify Compliance. Establish an Oversight Commission.

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

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Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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