SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Credit Bureau Center, LLC v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Inslee , a challenge to a Washington state law that shields the personal information of in-home care providers from public disclosure but allows the state to provide that data to the union that represents the providers. Garland is an immigration case. On Monday, the court denied review to just one of those cases, Boardman v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Smith , which held that the free exercise clause does not prohibit the enforcement of generally applicable laws that incidentally burden religious conduct. involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive.

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