The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the scope of the First Amendment — specifically, whether a law forbidding clandestine recordings is overbroad and whether a state may require individuals to carry identification cards labeled “SEX OFFENDER.” In Louisiana v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

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. Below is an updating guide to states with now-active legislation or trigger laws banning or criminalizing abortion. Law : Alabama HB314 2019. The pushback was just as swift.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Under Arizona law, the trial judge could have sentenced Bassett for each count to either life in prison without the possibility of parole or life in prison with the possibility of “release” after 25 years.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made substantial progress at last week’s conference to reduce the accumulation of relisted cases. But the court denied review without recorded dissent to two-time relist Alaska v.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

My life in that underworld still widely unknown to many, began when I met an extraordinary man in the Death House at Angola, a Louisiana slave plantation turned into a prison in 1880. The Louisiana Pardon Board chairman and the prison official were convicted. Under Louisiana law, his crime was manslaughter.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the reports, which are the result of two years of research, New Mexico is short more than 600 full-time public defenders across adult and juvenile courts, whereas Oregon is short nearly 1,300 public defenders. ” New Mexico and Oregon. hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Alexa Gervasi.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is back. On Monday, the court granted nine petitions from the enormous number that built up over the summer. A short explanation of relists is available here. First up is Buffington v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Over the next four years, the troubled child (as he was under Texas law ) repeatedly self-injured himself, including more than 50 times trying to take his own life. Supreme Court. That reality is evidenced by the way the Court has dealt with juvenile justice cases since 2005. He was placed in a juvenile detention facility.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit affirmed. Louisiana , 21-993. New Relist.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed rolling back his state’s raise the age law that, in 2017, had moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of New York’s violent Rikers Island jails and into its more rehabilitative family court. And in July, Louisiana Gov. We have seen this movie before.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. USERRA allows individuals to sue non-compliant employers in either state or federal court.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Abitron argued that the Lanham Act should not apply to its foreign sales. A short explanation of relists is available here. There are four newly relisted cases this week.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

She did not return calls to The Imprint , but her campaign pledges include protecting victims’ rights, enforcing the law and holding offenders accountable. In 1960, she experienced perhaps her most formative memory: watching on television as 6-year-old Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, Louisiana, flanked by white U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

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 court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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