The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? public seems to feel the same way. The decision has been criticized as “ an odious and discredited artifact of popular bigotry ” It was effectively overturned in 1983.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In their petition, the legislators argue that courts are split as to whether an official seeking to intervene in a case under a state law must prove that the state’s interest is not adequately represented. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court. .

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a complaint arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague. The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana agreed and issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the law. A three-judge panel of the appellate court reversed the lower court decision in a 2-1 split.

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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.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

Understandably, critics are troubled by the Supreme Court acting in such a unilateral manner and enlarging its own authority. By using the shadow docket, the Supreme Court escapes accountability for weighty decisions. He also made history as the first Latino editor in chief of the Texas Law Review.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

James Harlan served in Congress and as Kentucky’s attorney general, and was a devoted follower of Henry Clay, to the point that Clay’s politics and James’ were almost interchangeable. Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Kentucky is structural or is subject to harmless-error review; and (3) whether, in the context of jury selection, the 14th Amendment protects both religious status and religious belief, religious status only, or neither. relisted after the Jan. 12 and Jan. 19 conferences) Missouri Dept. of Corrections v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Two of the AGs leading the investigation – from Texas and Kentucky – took the unusual step of publicizing their civil investigation demands (“CIDs”), revealing the broad outlines of their inquiry. court decisions finding antitrust violations in connection with climate pledges. companies engaged in the fossil fuel business.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

In the Dobbs litigation of 2022, 26 states asked the court to overturn Roe and its successor, Casey. South Dakota, Louisiana and Kentucky have immediate prohibitions that will come into effect. Thus, we remain deeply divided. Roughly 16 states are poised or expected to make abortion illegal immediately under so-called trigger laws.

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