JURIST
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The nation asserts that the city lacks criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans on the tribe’s lands without express congressional authorization, as per the 2020 US Supreme Court case McGirt v. The Muscogee Creek Tribe is originally from an area straddling the border between what is now Georgia and Alabama.
Diane Drain
JANUARY 22, 2023
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
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.”. Animal Legal Defense Fund. In Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
My research on capital punishment suggests that both the arguments of today’s abolitionists and the current stalemate can be traced back half a century to the Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in a landmark death penalty case: Furman v. Four years after Furman, the death penalty was back before the Supreme Court. Austin Sarat.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Cortada is a longtime Floridian who received his law degree from the University of Miami and is now a professor at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History; his work combines his legal training with his artistic vision of how each Supreme Court decision shaped the nation. Florida , a companion case to Gregg v.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 17, 2023
The United States legal system is immensely complex. There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. The state courts in Florida and Connecticut have become more likely to enforce in recent years. They apply federal common law.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 26, 2022
It is a sequel of sorts to the court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma , the most monumental federal Indian law decision of the new century. Georgia in 1832, states cannot prosecute crimes committed on Indian reservation land without federal approval. Black-letter federal law provides that, since at least Worcester v.
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