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Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Challenge Federal Immigration Policy

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. and non-U.S. Zepeda , No. filed Nov.

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First Amendment questions and California arbitration battles

SCOTUSBlog

If the justices grant the petition, it would be the first time the Supreme Court addresses the First Amendment implications of secret audio recordings. In Louisiana v. Louisiana v. The next free-speech challenge involves the limits of the First Amendment’s prohibition on compelled speech.

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Fractured court blocks vaccine-or-test requirement for large workplaces but green-lights vaccine mandate for health care workers

SCOTUSBlog

Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

I first stumbled on 911 call analysis while reporting on a police department in northern Louisiana. When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. The question, then, was how to get the method into trial without litigating the science behind it or teeing up an appeal.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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Biden vaccine policies face Supreme Court test amid nationwide COVID-19 surge

SCOTUSBlog

A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states. The issues and arguments in the dispute over the Medicare/Medicaid vaccine mandate are in many ways similar to those in the employer vaccine-or-test mandate.

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