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Court rules for Maryland prison official on procedural issue

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Share The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Last week’s unanimous ruling in Dupree v. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. On Thursday the justices reached a different conclusion.

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Court Rules Democrats Engaged in “Extreme Partisan Gerrymander” in Maryland

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It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The court found that, in their 2021 Congressional Plan, the Democrats not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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The morning read for Wednesday, May 17

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Katie Peikes, Iowa Public Radio) The Real Scandal Surrounding Clarence Thomas’s Gifts (Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker) Maryland gun control law is latest answer to Supreme Court ruling (Al Jazeera) The post The morning read for Wednesday, May 17 appeared first on SCOTUSblog. What’s next for pork producers in Iowa?

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Capital Gazette Killer is Sane, Court Rules

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He blocked the exits to trap his victims and set decoys for law enforcement to slow their response, all of which attested to the fact that he was able to control his actions at the time of the shooting.

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Supreme Court Ruling Prods Challenges to State Firearms Restrictions

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New York quickly passed a new concealed-weapon law, but Republicans there predict it will also end up being overturned. Judges should no longer consider whether the law serves public interests like enhancing public safety, the opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas said.

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Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA

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In 2015, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other human rights organizations challenging surveillance by the NSA. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit allowed the lawsuit to proceed against the NSA in 2017.

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Over sharp dissents, court intervenes to allow federal government to execute 13th person in six months

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The issue was a technical one: whether the government was permitted to administer Higgs’ execution in accordance with the law of Indiana, even though Higgs was convicted in Maryland and his sentencing order did not specify that he could be executed under Indiana law. When it did not, this Court should have. It has not.”.