LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

This is the story of how I accidentally came to dominate the search results for an incredibly competitive legal keyword in New York City, of all places. I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. Schools were silent.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. In effect, this means that nearly 60 million Americans live in states where the courts offer absolute immunity to federal officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Three years before Davenport’s trial, the Supreme Court held in Deck v. Missouri that shackling a criminal defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates a defendant’s due process rights unless the state can demonstrate a “special need” to justify the shackling.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Texas and Missouri, which sued to keep the program in place, argue the policy has helped reduce the flow of people into the U.S. The program resumed in December, 2021, after President Biden suspended it on his first day in office and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended it in June 2021. at the southern border.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Court first addressed the threshold issue of standing, concluding that at least Missouri had the right to challenge the student loan forgiveness program. MOHELA could no longer service those closed accounts, costing it, by Missouri’s estimate, $44 million a year in fees…The plan’s harm to MOHELA is also a harm to Missouri.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2021

Respondent Greg Walters counters that the case self-evidently involves federal issues and a parallel case before the same trial judge has already been confirmed, making this case a bad vehicle because the questioned legal rule is unlikely to have affected the outcome. We’ll have a better idea next Monday whether the court agrees.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

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

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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. Many commentators subsequently complained that the court’s decision would severely limit FERC’s ability to advance interstate projects.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Because the balance of factors was likely to shift over time, the court said it would reevaluate the stay if the Eighth Circuit appeal was not resolved in 12 months. The court also denied Minnesota’s motion for attorney fees, concluding that “removal advanced critical legal questions that have not yet been resolved by the higher courts.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Wade, o pponents of abortion are pushing for stricter bans at state levels—even criminalizing women who travel outside their states where abortion remains legal. Missouri AG Eric Schmitt authorized a 2019 trigger law following the Dobbs decision. Law: Missouri HB126 2019. No exception for rape or incest.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Ninth Circuit declined to remand with instructions for dismissal of the underlying action and also declined to vacate any district court decisions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The district court found the analysis of greenhouse gas and climate change impacts to be adequate but remanded for consideration of alternatives that did not involve leasing all nominated parcels. The conservation groups’ appeal of the district court decision is still pending, with the opening brief due on July 12. Missouri v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The legality of LD-15, which had an approximately 51.5% 19 conferences) Missouri Dept. Washington’s bipartisan redistricting commission redrew the state’s 49 legislative districts, including Legislative District 15, a semi-rural district east of Yakima, and the map was enacted into law. The suit now known as Trevino v. 12 and Jan.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a challenge to license renewals for the Turkey Point nuclear generating station in Florida as “incurably premature.” The court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction because administrative appeals that raised the same legal issues were still pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Given the legal risks, trade associations typically take precautions to ensure that prohibited topics are kept out of bounds. court decisions finding antitrust violations in connection with climate pledges. The fossil fuel industry itself is attuned to these risks. And in fact, a recent Sierra Club report analyzing U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Three physicians and the Catholic Association Foundation write that advances in science have “painted an intimate portrait of the fetus and its humanity” and therefore the court’s viability framework is outdated. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

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. South Dakota, Louisiana and Kentucky have immediate prohibitions that will come into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the legality of President Joe Biden’s massive student-loan forgiveness plan. Several court decisions ruled against Trump on the merits. Democrats, including Biden, rightly condemned Trump’s border wall diversion.

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