SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

However, “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings” are presumptively valid, implying that arms may be carried in non-sensitive places. Sir John Knight (1686) read the statute to prohibit “going or riding armed in affray of peace,” i.e., in a manner “to terrify the King’s subjects.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 27, 2021

However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. 1395l(t)(12).”. .:

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though California’s constitution prohibited slavery, the Legislature passed and the court upheld a law requiring that people enslaved in other states be returned to their enslavers. The court ordered an enslaved person — Archy Lee — returned to his enslaver, a Mississippi citizen. Ex parte Archy (1858) 9 Cal.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. 1395l(t)(12).”. .:

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. The Mississippi case, Dobbs v. Greg Abbott signed the Texas law, known as S.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the viability of certain types of disability-based claims under three federal statutes. Mississippi. One petition involves the Americans with Disabilities Act. 4617(b)(12). Warsaw Orthopedic Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 16, 2021

Two petitions have been pending since the spring: One involves the rights of unemancipated minors and the other involves the constitutionality of an Arkansas law banning abortions sought on the basis of a prenatal test indicating Down syndrome. adds to the list of pending petitions on abortion laws. Now, Schmitt v. Louis Region, Inc.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. This is new law in Tennessee.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One is the justices’ law clerks, who are once again relegated to the alcoves on the right side of the courtroom. Groups from New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University Law School, I am reminded whenever I interview a professor from the former) and the New York City Law Department are sworn in.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

As federal licensees, because of the federal criminal statute, broadcasters have been advised to avoid marijuana advertising, even as the states in which they operate have relaxed their marijuana laws. Then the President would have to sign the bill.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 3, 2021

The justices also called for the federal government’s views in two cases, but they once again did not act on a closely watched challenge to a Mississippi law that would generally bar abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. Lower courts struck down the law, and the state has asked the justices to take the case and reinstate it.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

During oral arguments, plaintiff also suggested that Owens was inapplicable because the statute cited therein, Tenn. 34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. Code Ann. § Code Ann. § internal citation omitted).

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes. Mississippi driver Ameal Woods knew his day was ruined when he saw red lights flashing in his rearview mirror on westbound Interstate 10 near Houston in 2019. Disobeying commands during a law enforcement encounter can lead to arrest or worse.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 10, 2023

“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”: Margaret Baker of The Biloxi Sun Herald has this report. ” Devan Cole of CNN reports that “ Federal appeals court strikes down law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms.”

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

For more details about the extension and about other technical issues with the FCC’s filing systems, see the article we recently published on our Broadcast Law Blog. Notwithstanding the extension, licensees should not wait until the last minute to upload documents, as there may still be residual issues with the system for some time.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2018, the Moores learned that under the 2017 law, they had to pay a one-time tax for their share of the company’s lifetime earnings in the amount of $14,729. McDonough involves the entitlement of veterans to educational benefits under two statutes: the Montgomery G.I. Rudisill v. Bill and the Post-9/11 G.I. The Montgomery G.I.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

22-510 Issue : Whether, when officers put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and pushed into his back until he died, they are they entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law because the person struggled to breathe before dying. That last case, United States v. Louis, Mo. ,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Washington Post has been criticized for running a column by Aaron Tang , professor of law at the University of California at Davis, claiming an originalist basis for the right to abortion. The state of Mississippi makes this claim in Dobbs v. By 1858 a majority of states had statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The Mississippi Constitution denies the vote to any person “convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy.” Department of Justice “precleared” Mississippi’s provision to permit it to enter effect. That brings us to Harness v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

He thought it was irrelevant that the American Psychiatric Association had changed its diagnoses since that time; to hold otherwise, he said, would be to “give organizations like the APA the power to effectively modify statutes passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. That cannot be right.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). In NAACP v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

8, the Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state. The justices were more skeptical about the lawsuit filed by the Biden administration, and they did not give any hint as to whether the law will continue to remain in effect. 8 delegates the sole power to enforce the law to private individuals, rather than state officials.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

But the agency took no action to investigate or correct the disputed information, in violation of the statute. The district court agreed with the government that the statute did not unequivocally express Congress’s intent to waive sovereign immunity and granted the USDA’s motion to dismiss. Mississippi. Mississippi.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. Then there is a case on the court’s original docket , Mississippi v. Mississippi v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. The lawsuit challenged the Texas law, which was set to go into effect Sept. I do view this law as containing unconstitutional elements.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Problem was, Rahimi had no respect either for the protection order or for the rule of law. In January 2021, the Arlington Police determined that Rahimi between December 2020 and January 2021 terrorized both the general community and law enforcement of Arlington. A federal grand jury indicted him under 18 U.S.C. § Supreme Court.

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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. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

After the Washington attorney general learned about Stutzman’s refusal, he sued her for violating the state’s antidiscrimination laws, as did Ingersoll and his husband. At issue in the case is whether federal disability laws allow Cummings to recover damages for emotional distress. Mississippi v. Gallardo v. United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

John objected to the settlement, arguing that the chosen nonprofits (and in particular the Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice at the University of California, Berkeley) did not have interests aligned with the class members, and also argued that the payments represented a forced subsidy of speech. Class member Anna St. 24 and Mar.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Share Two months ago, Texas put in place the most restrictive abortion law since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. The law, which prohibits almost all abortions in the state, has dramatically reduced access to the procedure. Origins of the Texas law. Enter the Texas law, known as S.B. Wade in 1973. Greg Abbott in May.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. She said many abortion opponents, including the sponsors of the Mississippi abortion law at issue, hoped her three new colleagues would allow for the reversal or reduction of Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Share Lawyers for the state of Texas urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortions in place. But if the court opts to review the merits of the law on an expedited basis, Texas continued, it should use the case as an opportunity to overrule the court’s landmark decisions in Roe v.

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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.

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