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US Supreme Court hears first two cases of new term on water rights, ACCA

JURIST

The first case the justices heard was Mississippi v. Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border.

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A ‘Fair and Speedy Trial’ is a Pipe Dream for Many Poor Americans: Study

The Crime Report

The burden of the chronic “Initial Appearance Crisis” falls disproportionately on Black people, who are far more likely to be detained before trial than white people because they lack money for bail or for legal counsel. People who are in jail cannot work or meet their family obligations,” the authors write.

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In-person arguments come out of storage

SCOTUSBlog

The lectern and tables for lawyers arguing cases have been pushed to the back edge of the bar section, which is otherwise devoid of the many chairs where bar members would sit. The transcript on Oyez suggests that the lawyer, John Silard, used a polite “May I just finish the thought?” The first case is Mississippi v.