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DOJ requests emergency order to block Texas abortion ban

JURIST

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency motion Tuesday seeking to immediately block Texas’ controversial abortion restriction pending further proceedings. The DOJ filed suit against Texas earlier this month, challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 8 (SB 8). ” Both Roe v. 8 purports to prohibit.”

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Texas Supreme Court ends federal challenge to six-week abortion ban

JURIST

The Texas Supreme Court Friday ruled against abortion providers’ federal challenge to a state abortion ban, holding that certain state officials do not have the authority to enforce the law. Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, was passed last year. It bans all abortions after six weeks.

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Prisoners’ Relatives and Former Inmates Plead For Help As Deaths Mount in Sweltering Texas Prisons

The Crime Report

“ Prisoners’ relatives and former inmates plead for help as deaths mount in sweltering Texas prisons ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. This is about survival.”

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Customs and Trade News Weekly Snapshot

Customs & International Trade Law

Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton. The U.S. Department of Justice ADCO Industries (a/k/a Dallco Marketing, Inc.), a Dallas-based importer of industrial products, along with two Chinese companies and two individuals, has agreed to pay $2.5

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North Carolina’s voter-ID lawsuit, racial bias in juries and a veteran’s disability claim

SCOTUSBlog

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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Memo to Prosecutors: Visit Your Local Prison

The Crime Report

Peters to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Many eyes will now be on the troubled agency and what is happening behind bars under new leadership. States are limiting or eliminating paper mail, and families spend $1 billion a year to talk with relatives who are incarcerated, with costs as high as $5.70

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Patent Law at the Supreme Court February 2022

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Apple’s petition attracted four amicus briefs, including a bipartisan brief from Senator Patrick Leahy (D) and Congressman Darrell Issa (R). and (2) Is eligibility a pure questions of law (based upon the claims); or does it also involve a “question of fact for the jury based upon the state of the art at the time of the patent?”

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