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

SCOTUSBlog

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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Why the ‘Machinery of Death’ Keeps Running

The Crime Report

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. This time the court’s verdict was less equivocal, though no less divided. Austin Sarat.

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Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US

Conflict of Laws

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.

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Divided Supreme Court Limits Review of Factual Issues in Immigration Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Because USCIS was aware that Patel had previously checked a box on a Georgia driver’s license application falsely stating that he was a United States citizen, it denied Patel’s application for failure to satisfy the threshold requirement that the noncitizen be statutorily admissible for permanent residence. Our case is such a case.

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The art of justice: Re-examining landmark Supreme Court cases through expressionist paintings

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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.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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April 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In Minnesota, the district court granted the State of Minnesota’s motion to remand its case, which asserts state law claims under common law and consumer protection statutes. s consumer protection statute. On March 26, 2021, the court denied Exxon’s emergency motion for a temporary stay of the remand order. Georgia , No.

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