The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G. .”

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. ” Wyoming filed a separate complaint in the federal District Court for its own state.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

In a statement, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry said it was “prepared to perform its legal obligation and commence the execution process as part of the legally imposed sentence, regardless of method selected.” Supreme Court lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in 1976.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. The Mississippi case, Dobbs v. 1 effective date.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Share Two months ago, Texas put in place the most restrictive abortion law since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. Wade in 1973. Nevertheless, the two Texas cases — Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson and United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The court should decide the case based on text, history, and tradition, the methodology it applied in District of Columbia v. In Heller, the court eschewed an “interest-balancing” test under which judges “decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon,” and it should do the same here.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in two challenges to S.B. But Monday’s argument focused primarily on the law’s unusual enforcement mechanism, which distinguishes it from similar abortion bans that have been enacted by other states (and that have been consistently struck down by federal courts). 1 at 5:45 p.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Share More than 140 amicus briefs were filed in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Share Lawyers for the state of Texas urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortions in place. But if the court opts to review the merits of the law on an expedited basis, Texas continued, it should use the case as an opportunity to overrule the court’s landmark decisions in Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

During that period, as documented in a February 2, 2023 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision , he was a dangerous, irresponsible criminal who terrorized his family and the community of Arlington. A state court in February 2021 issued a protection order against Rahimi after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend.

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. For many with legal problems, simply knowing the law and their rights is the first step toward achieving a resolution.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. The court’s third liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also dissented, though she did not join Roberts’ opinion.). An abortion prelude. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. The fall of Roe.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

Plaintiff also testified that he printed the power of attorney form online, and that anytime he presented the document, he stated that he was not sure of its legality. The Court explained that it was “not free to disregard the discussion in Owens directly addressing the issue before [it].” (internal citation omitted). In Welch v.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Without more, this activity cannot be deemed ‘outrageous’ in the legal sense.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court announced that it would hold its “mop up” conference for October Term 2022 on Thursday, after completing the day’s opinion announcements. Legal Services Alabama, Inc. ,

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes. Mississippi driver Ameal Woods knew his day was ruined when he saw red lights flashing in his rearview mirror on westbound Interstate 10 near Houston in 2019. Courts would describe the behavior as coercion in any other context.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Before we discuss changes to the Supreme Court’s docket this week, a word about last week’s post. The court wound up taking both the case brought by two school board members, O’Connor-Ratcliff v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v. In Carson v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Two of the relisted cases involve an issue sufficiently important that the court already came close to granting it in Trump v. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit rejected St.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on reaction to the refusal of the Supreme Court to enjoin the Texas abortion law. The order of the Court expressly did not reach the merits and certainly did not, as claimed, overturn Roe v. promptly declared that the court “ overturned ” Roe v. Both were legally and factually wrong.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Court’s most watched case this term on abortion rights. The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The column makes highly dubious claims over the legality of early stage abortions and the likely understanding of the Framers of such a right. The suggestion is that, at least as to early abortions, the Framers and early legal commentators may have been technically pro-choice. The state of Mississippi makes this claim in Dobbs v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing. One reason the petitioners asked the D.C.

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