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Opponents of Bail Reform Rely on ‘Fear Tactics,’ Conference Told  

The Crime Report

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. Two and a half months into bail reform crime in New York City had gone up 20 percent.”. percent of total arrests and 20.2 percent and 25.1

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The court’s latest dive into state sovereign immunity pits military veterans against state agencies

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The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). Georgia , the Supreme Court relied on this language to allow a suit against Georgia by an out-of-state creditor.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects.

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High Court Gun Ruling Fuels Licensing Debate in States

The Crime Report

Seven other states require a “good cause or special need” to carry a concealed gun in public under statutes like the New York law that are now at risk. Those states include Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and California.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor.

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