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Supreme Court refuses to reinstate Missouri Second Amendment law

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Share The Supreme Court on Friday refused a request by Missouri to reinstate a state law that bars police officers from enforcing federal restrictions on the sale and ownership of firearms that the state believes violate the Second Amendment. Missouri Gov. The law imposes fines of $50,000 for violations of that ban.

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Missouri judge blocks emergency rule that would limit eligibility for gender-affirming care

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A Missouri judge Monday temporarily blocked an emergency rule that would have required people seeking gender-affirming care to first receive over a year of therapy among other prerequisites. The case is in the Missouri Circuit Court of the County of St. The ACLU of Missouri filed Southampton Community Healthcare v.

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Instead Of Fighting Homelessness, Missouri Has Opted To Fight The Homeless

Above The Law

Missouri is going to funnel money from its anti-homelessness budget in to Brett Farve's pockets. /. The post Instead Of Fighting Homelessness, Missouri Has Opted To Fight The Homeless appeared first on Above the Law. What's next?

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Justices won’t hear Missouri inmate’s request to choose firing squad over lethal injection

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Share Over the objection of the court’s three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from a Missouri death-row inmate who is contesting the state’s method of lethal injection and wants to propose the firing squad as a more humane method of execution. This post was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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Missouri Gov Appoints First Black Woman to State Supreme Court

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Michael Parson has appointed Judge Robin Ransom to the Missouri Supreme Court, the first Black woman named a state justice, reported AP News. Louis county in 2008 and was appointed to the Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals in 2019. Judge Ransom will add valuable experience, perspective, and balance to the court.

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Missouri Court: Mark McCloskey Pardoned But Still Guilty

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YouTube Screenshot There is an interesting ruling in the ongoing litigation of the case of Mark McCloskey. The Missouri Court of Appeals has now prevented that return of the weapons by denying a motion for replevin. As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands. He then sough the return of two firearms.

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US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by death row inmate who sought to die by firing squad

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Ernest Johnson, a death row inmate in Missouri, suffers from epilepsy as a result of a brain tumor and damage caused by significant brain surgery. In a complaint filed in 2016, Johnson alleged that he will experience excruciating seizures if Missouri executes him by lethal injection of the drug pentobarbital.

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