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Near Unanimous Supreme Court Rules Against Georgia Gwinnett College In Free Speech Victory

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If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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Gain Experience with Paralegal Pro Bono Work

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I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. I remember spending weeks up in north Georgia in a warehouse with traffic lights so that the semis didn’t run you over if you were crossing INSIDE the warehouse. They let me take charge in a way that was at a much higher level than your typical civil litigation case.

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Pence Asserts Novel Constitutional Claim to Avoid Testifying Before Grand Jury

JonathanTurley

The Justice Department has maintained this broader definition in prior litigation declared in 2021 that Pence was shielded by the “speech or debate” clause in a civil lawsuit. Graham after Graham invoked the clause to decline to testify on the Georgia allegations of election interference.

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Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution

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It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. June, 2022).

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. As associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, she helped litigate civil-rights cases in the South.

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Is The “Workaround” Working? Fourth Court Enjoins Biden Vaccine Mandate

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district court in Georgia became the fourth court to enjoin a Biden Administration vaccine mandate this week. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the Associated Builders and Contractors, a national trade group that represents the construction industry.

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