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“Detrimental Reliance and Stare Decisis; Insightful thoughts from Dean Vik Amar relevant to Ramos v. Louisiana”

HowAppealing

“Detrimental Reliance and Stare Decisis; Insightful thoughts from Dean Vik Amar relevant to Ramos v. Louisiana”: Will Baude has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

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Morning Docket: 06.28.22

Above The Law

Stare decisis? A matter of judgment: Louisiana judge temporarily prevents abortion ban from kicking in. * Here's a map showing the legality of abortion, state by state. [ The Guardian ]. I hardly knew her! [ States scramble to prevent the 2nd Amendment from being an absolute right. [ The post Morning Docket: 06.28.22

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US Supreme Court rules on life imprisonment for juveniles

JURIST

Louisiana , judges could only sentence juvenile defendants to life imprisonment if they made a separate factual finding that the defendant could not be rehabilitated. The challenge came from Brett Jones, who was convicted in 2004 of killing his grandfather at age 15. Alabama and 2016’s Montgomery v.

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Court upholds life-without-parole sentence for Mississippi man convicted as juvenile

SCOTUSBlog

Louisiana – required the judge who sentenced him to find that he was incapable of rehabilitation before imposing life without parole. How low,” she concluded, “this Court’s respect for stare decisis has sunk.”. Alabama and its 2016 ruling in Montgomery v.

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Denials of review in five cases draw dissents from various justices

SCOTUSBlog

Over a dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that was joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court declined to review the case of a Louisiana man whose conviction relied in part on extensive testimony by the prosecutor who had presented the case to a grand jury. In a 15-page opinion, Sotomayor detailed the facts of Anthony’s case.

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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

Louisiana (2016), the court ruled the decision in Miller applied retroactively and that it applied “for all but the rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility.”. “The Four years later, in Montgomery v. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.

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Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion

SCOTUSBlog

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote at length about the importance of stare decisis in voting to strike down a Louisiana abortion restriction last year in June Medical Services v. Besides, the best chance for supporters of abortion rights is to lean on precedent.