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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Case in point: Texas v. That case, which involved Texas’ challenge to a regulation that delegated governmental authority to an actuarial group to set standards for Medicaid reimbursement, had been rescheduled twice and relisted six times going into last Friday’s conference. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.

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Another look at qualified immunity

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Texas , 21-5050. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals (as the U.S. Texas , 21-6001. relisted after the April 1 conference). Returning Relists.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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The question is whether the United States is such a successful litigant that the court will grant review even in cases it doesn’t want the court to review. The next two relists raise a related question: whether a habeas corpus statute, 28 U.S.C. Texas , 21-6001. Federal Trade Commission. Returning Relists.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. In Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v.

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Dismissing False Claims Act cases, promoting prescription fentanyl, and a capital case

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Thus, the court will revisit its nearly 40-year-old precedents holding that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is jurisdictional. The FCA gives the government a fair amount of ability to control the litigation. Texas prisoner Anibal Canales Jr. Texas , 21-6001. United States. United States and Ruan v.

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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. Goertz , involving the question of what statute of limitations state prisoners face when raising claims seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence.

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Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades

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Wednesday’s argument in Dobbs , which involves a Mississippi ban on almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, comes 30 days after the court heard arguments in another consequential abortion controversy: a pair of challenges to a six-week abortion ban that took effect in Texas on Sept. Stare decisis and the Kavanaugh test.