Court Rules Laws Stare Decisis Texas 
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
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. 8 — will enforce Texas’ ban and thus can be sued in advance.).
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. On remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
Ross , involving a dormant commerce clause challenge to a California law prohibiting the sale of pork unless the pigs from which it was made (virtually all of which come from outside the state) were raised consistent with the state’s restrictive standards. Case in point: Texas v. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.
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. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit affirmed. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upholding a similar Iowa law.
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. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.
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. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
Share If the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term had a soundtrack, it might be “With or Without You,” the 1987 anthem by the Irish rock group U2. The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.
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