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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Legislative authority.

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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’

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When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?

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