Laws Legal Louisiana Stare Decisis 
Above The Law
JUNE 28, 2022
* Here's a map showing the legality of abortion, state by state. [ Stare decisis? A matter of judgment: Louisiana judge temporarily prevents abortion ban from kicking in. appeared first on Above the Law. appeared first on Above the Law. The Guardian ]. I hardly knew her! [ The post Morning Docket: 06.28.22
JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
Louisiana , judges could only sentence juvenile defendants to life imprisonment if they made a separate factual finding that the defendant could not be rehabilitated. It is hard to see how that approach is “founded in the law rather than in the proclivities of individuals,” [as Justice Kavanaugh said in an earlier decision].
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The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
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. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have banned life in prison without parole for children under state law.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
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. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state 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
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Twenty-one states have laws in place that would ban all or nearly all abortions if Roe and Casey fell. The Mississippi law and the court’s abortion precedents. The Mississippi law at the heart of the case is known as H.B. But here, the state insists, the “stare decisis case for overruling Roe and Casey is overwhelming.”
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