JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

million settlement with families of those injured and killed in the 2017 mass shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. In 2021 a federal district court ruled that the government was partially responsible for the deaths due to negligence. The US Department of Justice Wednesday reached a $144.5

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

As a statistical matter , a case that the Supreme Court repeatedly relists is more likely to be the subject of an opinion respecting denial or — where existing precedent is clear — a summary reversal or vacatur. Case in point: Texas v. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State. Texas , 21-6001.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Texas , 21-6001. A short explanation of relists is available here. Goertz , 21-442. relisted after the Feb.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. .” (Officer Mercer is also African American).The

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No. 17-1145 (D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 17cv1215, 17cv1873, 17cv1911 (S.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The justices also agreed to take up a pair of cases involving the Armed Career Criminal Act, which extends the minimum sentence – from 10 years to 15 – for an individual who had been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm when that person has at least three “serious drug offenses.” United States and Jackson v. Last year the U.S.

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