JURIST

JULY 8, 2022

A man from Kansas City, Missouri, Thursday pled guilty to committing a hate crime. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in federal court. US Attorney Teresa Moore of the Western District of Missouri commented: Violence against others, motivated by hatred of their sexual orientation, is unacceptable. During the interaction, M.S.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld an award of $1,143,627.96 in litigation expenses for the League of Women Voters of Missouri against Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft in a dispute over voter registration. in fees and $27,484.15

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2022

A federal grand jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri indicted Walter Lee Hoornstra Wednesday for threatening an Arizona election official. Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Polite, Jr. Monaco launched the Task Force in June 2021.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of a Missouri man after his attorneys argued in a final appeal that his intellectual disabilities made the execution unconstitutional. Lower courts rejected those arguments, and his attorneys asked the justices on Monday to intervene.

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Above The Law

MARCH 22, 2023

Come Back In A Year : Missouri's Supreme Court gave a lawyer accused of serial sexual assault a year before he could be reinstated because that's what they gave other sexual assaulters. This Attorney Was Suspended For Insider Trading : Was the Biglaw salary not enough ?

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A federal district court in Missouri Monday issued a preliminary injunction halting the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states. A coalition of ten states, led by Missouri and Nebraska, filed suit challenging the mandate. vaccination.”

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“Red states sue feds to block abortion pill mail order sales; After a Supreme Court ruling stayed an injunction of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a coalition of Republican attorneys general hope to demonstrate actual injuries”: Gabriel Tynes of Courthouse News Service has this report. District Judge Matthew J.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Missouri inmate Leonard Taylor, who was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of his live-in girlfriend and her three children. Shortly after the court’s order, Missouri executed Taylor by lethal injection. There were no dissents recorded.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Kevin Johnson in Missouri filed an application for a stay of his execution this week on due process grounds. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court released an unsigned order rejecting his application to appeal his execution. Johnson’s execution proceeded, and he was killed later that day.

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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2021

Missouri’s Republican Gov. Michael Parson has appointed Judge Robin Ransom to the Missouri Supreme Court, the first Black woman named a state justice, reported AP News. Judge Ransom will add valuable experience, perspective, and balance to the court. Stith was the second woman to serve for the state’s high court. “Of

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Mondaq

AUGUST 11, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the Missouri Supreme Court provided clarity on whether public governmental bodies processing a request for documents under the Missouri Sunshine Law can charge for time spent by attorneys.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. The Missouri Court of Appeals has now prevented that return of the weapons by denying a motion for replevin. He then sough the return of two firearms. Dep’t of Liquor Control (Mo.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet.

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Above The Law

MAY 9, 2024

Louis Circuit Attorney? The state auditor is pulling out all the stops to find her. The post Where In The World Is The Former St. appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. According to the AP , the White House dismissed the lawsuit as baseless.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court in Biden v. But after federal courts in Missouri and Texas put the program on hold last year, the Biden administration came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh in. Nebraska , the court ruled unanimously in Department of Education v.

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JURIST

JUNE 25, 2022

Abortion policy is now in the hands of the states following the US Supreme Court’s Friday decision in Dobbs v. ” Biden emphasized that this is the first time the court has revoked a constitutional right, calling it a “sad day for the court and for the country.” Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed on Thursday a lower court ruling which would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to encourage social media platforms to remove content it considers misleading. The administration also indicated its intent to formally appeal the decision to the Supreme Court in October 2023.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim (Ann E.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Earlier this month, the ACLU of Iowa and several parents filed suit in federal court to challenge Iowa’s public school mask ban. Thus, the court enjoined the state from restricting public school discretion to mandate masks. Consequently, school districts may continue to enforce their mask mandates.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Parents Advocating for Safe Schools (PASS), an association of Minnesota parents, filed suit against the state of Minnesota and Governor Timothy Walz, asking the court to order Walz to impose a statewide mask requirement for all public schools. Pass also asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order compelling Walz to require masks.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a free speech challenge to the Biden administration’s encouragement of platforms to remove posts that officials deemed misinformation, including posts relating to elections and COVID-19. The justices have until June 2024 to issue a final ruling.

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Above The Law

APRIL 18, 2024

For those behind, the shenanigans include: Months spent just on jury selection Attorneys being ordered to buy people lunch $10 fines per cell phone ring The choice between homework assignments or jail An apparent in-court drug deal Assaulting an officer And all that is just from the 4/20 article last year! Louis School of Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 15, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans “imposed unprecedented limits on the ability of the President’s closest aides to speak about matters of public concern, on the FBI’s ability to address threats to the Nation’s security, and on CDC’s ability to relay public-health information.” On July 4, 2023, U.S.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued President Joe Biden on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati, seeking reinstatement of a Trump-era abortion referral ban which Biden reversed earlier this month.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

Share After nearly two hours of oral argument on Monday, a majority of the justices appeared sympathetic to the Biden administration’s argument that a federal court in New Orleans went too far in an order that would limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 20, 2023

[ Reuters ] * Supreme Court mulling Missouri's gun law which "reads like it was drafted by a member of the John Birch Society after a night of heavy drinking." [ Vox ] * Some clients are pushing firms to get on the AI bandwagon. Law360 ] * Kirkland unveils new tech tool for funds attorneys. appeared first on Above the Law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens. The 5th Circuit previously ruled in Missouri v. California has long sought to impose speech limits on doctors , businesses , and citizens to silence opposing viewpoints.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2021

Montgomery was charged in 2008 with the strangulation of a pregnant Missouri woman and with cutting and removing the child from her body. The Supreme Court issued three late-night orders on Tuesday granting Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall vacatur on the stays, thereby paving the way for Montgomery’s execution.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday in what is shaping up to be the biggest election case since its ruling nearly 25 years ago in Bush v. Although the question comes to the court in a case from Colorado, the impact of the court’s ruling could be much more far-reaching. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Supreme Court on Tuesday night cleared the way for the execution of Lisa Montgomery, the first woman to be executed by the federal government in 68 years. Montgomery was convicted in 2008 of strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, and extracting the premature baby to pass off as her own child.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Biden v. immigration court. In March 2020, the court allowed the Trump administration to begin enforcing the policy after a federal district judge in California blocked it. In October 2020, the Supreme Court agreed to review a ruling by the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 22, 2024

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in six cases last week, with two potential First Amendment blockbusters before the Court. Missouri , the justices addressed when the federal government’s efforts to influence social media sites’ content-moderation decisions may run afoul of the First Amendment. Missouri In Murthy v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Our justice system is supposed to protect such people by assigning them a “legal guardian” —a surrogate decision-maker who acts under the authority of the probate court or of state laws governing guardianships. The lack of training is particularly telling in Missouri. The potential for abuse is not limited to Missouri, of course.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Friday against the Biden administration, seeking a declaration that the administration’s mandate that all federal contractor employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8 th is unconstitutional. In addition to the Texas lawsuit, a joint lawsuit was filed in the U.S.

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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. Those standards are expected to be released in May, replacing metrics that have been in place for decades.

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