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Justices to consider appropriate standard for harmless-error review of state convictions in federal habeas proceedings

SCOTUSBlog

On appeal, Davenport argued that his conviction should be reversed because of this constitutional violation, but the Michigan appellate courts determined that the error was harmless. The Michigan trial and intermediate appellate courts relied on this latter testimony to hold that the error was harmless.

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In rejecting a prisoner’s post-conviction claim, court plants seeds for narrowing habeas relief

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The answer to that question turned on the relationship between a Supreme Court decision and a congressional statute. Additionally, the majority noted, the legal materials that a court may consult when addressing the two inquiries are distinct: AEDPA requires the court to focus on U.S. In Brecht v. Neither Fry v.

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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. These courts will not, however, enforce a clause when it is unreasonable or contrary to public policy. They apply federal common law.

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Arthrex on Remand: Commissioner of Patents Drew Hirshfeld and the Problem of Shadow Acting Officials

Patently O

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Hirshfeld has the legal power to fulfill the expanded job as required by the Supreme Court’s decision. 1) The litigation background. — Dennis Crouch.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of He did it!!”.

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

SCOTUSBlog

Days was a member of the Yale Law faculty for more than three decades and led the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster from 1997 to 2011. Even if she had never become a judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a giant of the legal profession. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. March 15, 1933 – Sept. Aimee Stephens.

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What to Expect in a Post-Roe World

JonathanTurley

The court has now declared that the future of abortion will rest with 330 million Americans rather than nine justices. As this matter returns to the states, it is striking to consider what has changed legally and socially in the past 50 years. If one looks solely at the alignment of states , surprisingly little has changed.

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