Drafting Laws Legal Stare Decisis 
JonathanTurley
MAY 14, 2022
After denouncing the recent leak of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade as “an infidelity,” Thomas dismissed the reliance on the principle of stare decisis , or the respect for precedent. The comment quickly lit up the lines of law professors, including my own mailbox. And I just keep going.”.
LawSites
JUNE 2, 2022
The surreptitiously leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. But, legal tech nerd that I am, I wondered how the draft would fare if I subjected it to the scrutiny of the legal editing software BriefCatch , which recently rolled out a new-and-improved version 3 of its product.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 27, 2022
Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. I suspect one of the justices wrote a draft separate opinion that was sufficiently persuasive to shake loose the necessary votes for a grant.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. From health care to finance to environmental pollutants, administrative agencies use highly trained experts to interpret and carry out federal laws.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Breyer framed the question as whether the law violated the “Federal Constitution as interpreted in Planned Parenthood v. First, the law made no “exception for the preservation of the … health of the mother.” Second, Breyer explained that the law imposed “‘an undue burden on a woman’s ability’ to choose” abortion.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Although the law conflicted directly with Roe v. Casey , the court’s long-standing decisions holding that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the court nonetheless allowed the law to go into effect on Sept.
JonathanTurley
MAY 4, 2022
The response to the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. The draft opinion written by Justice Alito declares “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. No less a legal figure as Stephen Colbert declared “They knew, that if they were honest, they wouldn’t get the job. Wade has unleashed a torrent of outrage on the left.
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