At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though California’s constitution prohibited slavery, the Legislature passed and the court upheld a law requiring that people enslaved in other states be returned to their enslavers. The court ordered an enslaved person — Archy Lee — returned to his enslaver, a Mississippi citizen. Following the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Share In 2012, the late Justice Antonin Scalia called a dispute arising from the adoption of Native American twins in a Mississippi state court the most difficult case he had encountered in his time on the Supreme Court. Four tribes later joined the case to defend the law. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

During oral arguments, plaintiff also suggested that Owens was inapplicable because the statute cited therein, Tenn. 34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. § Code Ann. § internal citation omitted).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. Mississippi v. A new case on public funding and religious education. Gallardo v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , David Beckwith published the original Supreme Court abortion leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. The 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in Brown v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. First Circuit Certified State Law Preemption Questions in Case Challenging Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading at Harbor. and non-U.S. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

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