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US Supreme Court rules on life imprisonment for juveniles

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The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller v. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller v. The court’s six conservative justices disagreed.

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Denials of review in five cases draw dissents from various justices

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Natural Resources Defense Council , holding that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of the laws it administers if those laws are ambiguous. A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial. Echoing his opinion earlier this year in Kennedy v. Emphasizing that the U.S.

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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

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That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. In Miller v.

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Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion

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Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Casey in 1992, the hallmark of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence has been an effort to take the abortion issue seriously. In some ways, the court’s inaction can tell us only so much about the fate of Roe v.

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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

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The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.

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Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades

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If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Twenty-one states have laws in place that would ban all or nearly all abortions if Roe and Casey fell. In Dobbs , Mississippi and its supporters are urging the court to answer that question with a full-throated “no.”.

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

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Breyer’s penchant for pragmatism was on full display in his 2014 opinion for the court in National Labor Relations Board v. “A Perhaps because of his straightforward style, Breyer was the author of three landmark decisions striking down state laws that sought to restrict access to abortion. A frequent author on reproductive rights.

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