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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court granted review on a case raising the question whether Andy Warhol paintings made using a copyrighted photograph were so “transformative” as to be a non-infringing “fair use.” Case in point: Texas v.

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Another look at qualified immunity

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Dennis noted that the Supreme Court had only recently in Taylor v. Cope now seeks Supreme Court review, supported by three amicus briefs. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The United States is easily the most successful petitioner before the Supreme Court, winning review in over 70% of the cases in which it files a cert petition. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. 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.

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Dismissing False Claims Act cases, promoting prescription fentanyl, and a capital case

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court’s sprint to the end of the term continues. The court granted last week ’s one new relist, Wilkins v. This week’s conference marks the second of the court’s last four scheduled conferences.

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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.

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Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades

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Share When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Katie Barlow).