JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v. Mississippi that when sentencing juvenile defendants to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, judges need not make a separate factual finding concerning the defendant’s youth. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller 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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HowAppealing

JUNE 25, 2022

“In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights”: Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times. Savage has a front page article headlined “ In historic reversal, Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, permitting states to outlaw abortion.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2022

The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. In one of the most anticipated rulings in decades, the court overturned Roe , which first declared a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, and Planned Parenthood v.

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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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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. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding. In Miller v.

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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2022

Supreme Court is set to rule this summer to either maintain the 14th Amendment right to privacy protections for abortion established by Roe v. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

From the news release by Karen Datangel: “This February, California courts and the Judicial Council of California join the nation in recognizing Black History Month. Some of them relate to California’s Supreme Court: In re Perkins (1852) 2 Cal. Lee later got his freedom from a federal court ruling.

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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

At the same time, the court has spoken about women’s liberty, equal citizenship, and dignity. Trying to balance deeply held beliefs about abortion might not be the court’s job, and it is impossible to strike a balance that satisfies everyone. Given the court’s handling of Whole Woman’s Health v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades , Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments. The world closed in to keep the virus out, and so did the court. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday night took a step that anti-abortion activists have hoped for, and abortion-rights supporters have feared, since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg nearly a year ago. Many experts expected the court to act before midnight central time, when the law was scheduled to take effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday reshaped the relationship between universities and the athletes who play college sports. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that decision, the NCAA and the athletic conferences went to the Supreme Court, which late last year agreed to take up the case. After 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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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

The trial court ultimately ruled that the brother was incompetent and lacked capacity to sign the power of attorney for health care, that the power of attorney for health care was therefore invalid, and that the arbitration agreement was accordingly unenforceable. In Welch v. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G. .”

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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

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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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. 1982), the Supreme Court addressed a boycott of white-owned businesses in Mississippi. District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled for Martin on the core constitutional challenge. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb.

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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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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. Merchant v.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit a long-simmering tension between legal protections for LGBTQ people and the rights of business owners who oppose same-sex marriage. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected her arguments , Smith came to the Supreme Court. The case, 303 Creative v. When the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. Here’s the Monday morning read: Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. 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. All shaped the court in their own ways. The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. 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. David Beckwith (Oct.

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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. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v. In Carson v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Court’s most watched case this term on abortion rights. 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.

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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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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

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. The dispute before the Supreme Court on Wednesday – Haaland v.

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