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Supreme Court will hear election law case with standing issue

At the Lectern

Actions of note at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference included: Supreme Court signs off on another sentence commutation. The court granted review in Travis v. The court apparently didn’t care for the way the First District, Division Two, procedurally handled the habeas corpus petition in In re Murray.

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Kenya dispatch: top lawyers make final submissions to Supreme Court ahead of anticipated September 5 election ruling

JURIST

Friday was the final hearing day for the presidential election petition before the Supreme Court of Kenya. The Supreme Court’s agenda for the day was listening to the answers given by both the respondents and petitioners to outstanding questions judges had asked both sides. She reports from Nairobi.

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Abortion Returns to SCOTUS in December with Challenge to Roe v Wade

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which involves a Mississippi law that makes most abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Given that the state has expressly asked the Court to overturn its landmark decisions in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S.

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SCOTUS Rules Kentucky AG Can Defend Abortion Law

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. Facts of the Case. Supreme Court’s Decision.

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A Law Clerk’s Advice for Communicating During the Pandemic

LawTechnologyToday

The coronavirus known as COVID-19 forcefully ushered the judiciary into the digital world, taking along with it many legal practitioners who may have resisted technology invading their law office. But there is no longer an aegis protecting lawyers from technology and how they will need to interact with the court now and in the future.

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St. Louis Can Banish People From Entire Neighborhoods – Police Can Arrest Them if They Come Back

The Crime Report

Louis’ extreme, particularly as a response to petty incidents, according to experts in law enforcement. But a court struck down the practice as a violation of the constitutional freedoms of association and movement, and the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 let that ruling stand. But few have taken the practice to St.

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Make Prosecutors ‘Earn’ Immunity

The Crime Report

percent of cases. It was conjured out of thin air by the Supreme Court in 1976, with no basis in the Constitution, simply because in the Court’s opinion it was “better” to relieve good prosecutors of “the constant dread of retaliation” than to recognize some means for sanctioning the bad ones and providing compensation to their victims.