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When do legal observers at protests get First Amendment protection?

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This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether words displayed on hats worn at a protest by legal observers – attorneys who document the treatment of demonstrators’ civil rights – can entitle them to sue police who suppressed the rally. Police ordered the protesters to disperse. Steelman v.

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The last grants of October Term 2022?

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Legal Services Alabama, Inc. , Kentucky by considering the prosecutor’s purported justifications for striking seven of the eight African American prospective jurors presented to it “in isolation,” rather than, as this Court directed it to do in Flowers v. CVSG: 5/18/2023 (relisted after the June 22 conference) Davis v.

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Justice Breyer and Parents Involved

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1 , the court struck down as unconstitutional voluntarily adopted plans for assigning students to public schools in the racially diverse cities of Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics.

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Justices probe states’ effort to defend Trump immigration rule after Biden stopped defending it in court

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City and County of San Francisco , several of the justices seemed troubled by the Biden administration’s conduct and the prospect that the states may be left without any options in their effort to defend the rule’s legality. Brnovich again asserted that the Biden administration had engaged in an “unprecedented legal maneuver.”