JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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Mondaq

APRIL 8, 2022

Reviewing a Mississippi district court's ruling in favor of an insured, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and rendered in favor of an excess insurer due to the absence of an actual.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2022

Mississippi just strengthened its animal rights laws. NY's Supreme Court rules cops can't use chokeholds again. * Justice Thomas's views on which companies are common carriers could be key to compelling hate speech. [ Ars Technica ]. Gotta look out for our buddies. Action News ]. NBC News ].

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HowAppealing

JUNE 25, 2022

Marimow have a front page article headlined “ Supreme Court ruling leaves states free to outlaw abortion; The justices voted 6 to 3 to uphold a restrictive Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his conservative colleagues for taking the additional step of overturning Roe v. .”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday affirmed a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana blocking the White House’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The ruling results from a 2-1 decision from the three-judge panel.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2022

The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v. The Mississippi case deals with a challenge to a law that banned abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy or later, the kind of state legislation rejected by the justices in Case y. Jackson Women’s Health Organization within weeks.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2022

He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe. The court’s three liberals, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, filed a joint dissent.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Photo courtesy Mississippi Department of Corrections. In Miller v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Share The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear argument on Dec. 1 in a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. 1 argument date in the Mississippi case was part of the Supreme Court’s release of its December argument calendar. The case, Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, the state outsourced that job to private citizens — anyone in the state could sue an abortion provider who violated the ban, secure at least $10,000 in damages, and request a court order to stop that doctor from doing it again. 8 to go into effect does not as obviously contradict precedent — or expose the court to backlash.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I Mississippi (Nov. Mississippi Deputy Solicitor General Krissy Nobile, Jones v. Mississippi (Nov. On the other end of the formality spectrum, Ramzi Kassem argued in October in Tanzin v. Tanvir over a paper-scattered desk in a hoodie sweatshirt.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The court ordered an enslaved person — Archy Lee — returned to his enslaver, a Mississippi citizen. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, the court stated, “where slavery exists, the right of property of the master in the slave must follow as a necessary incident.” Following the U.S.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 10, 2023

“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”: Margaret Baker of The Biloxi Sun Herald has this report. Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press reports that “ Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case.”

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, the court – at least for now – declined to block the law despite the fact that it defies Roe and Casey , the future of which are squarely at issue in a separate case , to be argued in the upcoming 2021-22 term, involving a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday in Dobbs v. The decision comes in a case involving a Mississippi law banning all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act , passed in 2018, outlaws abortions after 15 weeks with only a few exceptions, such as when the mother’s life is endangered.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. While the Court pointed out that neither party had suggested that the power of attorney for health care in this case failed to comply with Tennessee law, it did conclude that Tenn. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2023

GenBioPrio filed a similar challenge against Mississippi in October 2020 but dropped the lawsuit after the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no federal constitutional right to abortion. Additionally, the act’s definition of abortion includes the use of abortifacients.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit disagreed and barred the suit, seeing the compact as more akin to an agreement that New Jersey could — and did — renounce. Webster County, Mississippi.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

David Goodman and Ruth Graham of The New York Times report that “ Small Court Victories Change Nothing for Women Seeking Abortions in Texas; A Texas statute that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy was seemingly undercut by two court rulings, but the reality on the ground has not changed.” ” David G.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The DPIC reports that only four states—Mississippi, Utah, South Carolina and Oklahoma—allow for execution by firing squad as an alternative method of execution. . Supreme Court ruled that a prisoner challenging an existing method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must propose a viable alternative method. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for a major ruling next year on abortion – one that could upend the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. Casey , in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus becomes viable. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

1982), the Supreme Court addressed a boycott of white-owned businesses in Mississippi. The Supreme Court held that a state’s right to regulate economic activity “could not justify a complete prohibition against a nonviolent, politically motivated boycott.”. I cannot sign any form promising not to boycott Israel.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 21, 2021

On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Caniglia v. Although the district court ruled that the government must have reasonable suspicion that a device contains digital contraband because of the privacy concerns of electronic searches, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

That changed this week, with announcements from different parts of the federal bureaucracy aimed at supporting and protecting reproductive health in the new landscape created by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. “The whole situation should never have happened.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 5, 2023

“Appeals Court Overturns Mississippi’s Lifetime Ban on Voting for Former Felons; A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to ‘the democratic core of American citizenship’”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

But compelling the organizers to include the group would violate the First Amendment, the court ruled. Under Hurley , Smith argues, courts must consider two questions: whether the service or good involved is speech or conduct; and whether the speaker’s message was affected by the speech it was required to accommodate.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Here’s the Monday morning read: Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. The case of Lizette Herrera, a 26-year-old South Texas woman, is already well known. If the U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

Other states, such as Nebraska and Oklahoma , have succeeded in enacting legislation that defines sex on reproductive terms, and Mississippi is currently attempting to do the same. An Alabama Senate committee advanced a comparable bill in February.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This case has attracted the third highest number of briefs in the court’s history (after leading same-sex marriage case in Obergefell v. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2021

Editor’s Note: The legal climate for LWOP for juveniles has gotten cloudier this year, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling that judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The ruling, in Jones v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In that case, Ann Hopkins was denied a promotion because she was perceived as “pushy” and “too macho,” and the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the company’s actions violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It was the first time the court recognized that gender stereotyping qualifies as unlawful sex discrimination.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. The justices ruled in the teacher’s favor on a procedural question, and Piel eventually settled the case. And in Adickes v.

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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. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The court is also poised to hear argument in a separate high-profile abortion case on Dec. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , involves a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks. Mississippi and its supporters have asked the court to overturn Roe and Casey. That case, Dobbs v.

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