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Iowa high court rules abortion is not a fundamental right under state constitution

JURIST

After a lower court ruled the law was unconstitutional, Iowa appealed to the state supreme court. The court’s ruling comes as Americans wait for a US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. The decision could overturn Roe v. The decision could overturn Roe v.

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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. In Miller v.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”.

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