SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2021
Hochman fielded several questions about why the court should abandon a doctrine that the court has recognized for nearly a century. Morgan Ratner argued for the federal government, which filed its own friend-of-the-court brief but supported neither party. The post Doctrinal “dinosaur” or stare decisis?
JURIST
JUNE 17, 2022
The Iowa Supreme Court Friday held in Planned Parenthood v. The decision overturns a 2018 ruling which held there is a fundamental right to abortion in Iowa. After a lower court ruled the law was unconstitutional, Iowa appealed to the state supreme court. The decision could overturn Roe v.
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The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 22, 2021
Share The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to impose new restrictions on the ability of states to sentence juveniles to life without parole, rejecting a challenge from a Mississippi man, Brett Jones, who was convicted of the 2004 stabbing death of his grandfather, a crime committed when Jones was 15.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 5, 2023
On February 1, 2023, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that Andrus’ attorney, Gretchen Sween , told the Los Angeles Times that the latest Supreme Court denial left her client a “broken” man “careening toward the abyss.” In its June 2020 decision , the U.S.
Patently O
DECEMBER 11, 2022
This means that issues decided at the district or administrative court level can be binding on all other courts: district courts, administrative courts, appellate courts, and even the Supreme Court. District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
In the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered at least three decisions on foreign choice of court agreements. [1] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]
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