SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Shortly after the justices denied his appeal, Bourgeois was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. A federal court in Indiana put his execution on hold, finding that Bourgeois had made a “strong showing” of disability under contemporary standards. He was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Examining the “severity and normality of state violence,” Thusi, an Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor, argues that such invasive searches violate the Fourth, Thirteenth, and Eighth Amendment rights of incarcerated girls. India Thusi in a Northwestern University Law Review article. It was humiliating,’” she said.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

OCTOBER 23, 2022

COUPLE'S DISCRIMINATION CASE REVIVED Tonca and Terence Watters -- a black couple from Indiana – asserted discrimination claims against their homeowners’ association (HOA) and some of its (current and former) officers because the latter had purportedly harassed the Watters on several occasions.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2021

This appeals court decision means that violating physicians will face criminal charges and up to two years in prison. Reaction to the decision has been predictably mixed. According to The Center for Reproductive Rights stated that D&E abortion bans have been struck down in Alabama, Indiana and Kansas amongst others.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s a little surprising the court let stand a federal court decision invalidating a state statute on constitutional grounds, but animal-rights groups defending that decision argued persuasively that state statutes are in a state of flux and it would be premature for the justices to take up the case now.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. This was not easy.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

In one exchange, Harpster told Lewis that he had spent two hours on the phone with some officers and a prosecutor in Indiana. Their correspondence shows the lengths some powerful officials have gone to set aside their own better judgment to pursue convictions. This is considered to be another guilty indicator known as “acceptance of death.”.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First proposed in 2014, the 780-mile transmission line is intended to transport electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas to customers in Indiana, passing through Missouri and Illinois along the way. It required approval from all four states to move forward.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed, ruling that the 50% tariff was part of an ongoing plan of action that Trump had properly initiated earlier. The case is Does v. These and other petitions of the week are below: Wright v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. BP p.l.c. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The complaint alleged failure to consider climate change effects on the forest and protected species, but the court’s decisions did not address those issues. The petitioners argued that currently unoccupied bat habitat cleared for the pipeline would no longer be suitable for future use by the bat. Appalachian Voices v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2022

Senators called on her to explain her association with People of Praise, a small Christian group in Indiana. Her trial court decisions shed little light on that question, and she previously refused to discuss her philosophy. Barrett was the subject of disgraceful attacks on the basis of her religious beliefs.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The Supreme Court nevertheless overturned his conviction. Indiana , the court rejected the prosecution of a protester declaring an intention to take over the streets, holding that “at worst, (the words) amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time.” Likewise, in Hess v. Griswald

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