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US Supreme Court declines to take up cash bail constitutionality case

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Gentry in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama with the assistance of the Alabama ACLU, Civil Rights Corps and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The lower court ruled in favor of Hester, enjoining the county from imposing cash bail amounts on defendants who could not afford them.

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SCOCA and SCOTUS, October 2023 term

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Supreme Court the chance to disapprove the California Supreme Court decision in Adolph v. Supreme Court had misinterpreted California law about the viability of representative actions under the Labor Code’s Private Attorneys General Act when representatives’ individual claims are being arbitrated (see here ).

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The Most Interesting Supreme Court Rulings of 2024

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Trump, and conflicting signals on issues related to firearms and abortion, leading to a series of impactful decisions. Here are some of the most buzzworthy decisions and their far-reaching effects. United States , the Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald J. Presidential Immunity In Trump v.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

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Searches for 911 call analysis in national court dockets come up virtually empty too. Dozens of other defense attorneys had similar reactions. Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. But Gibbons told someone.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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Boynton’s victory inspired civil rights activists, known as the Freedom Riders, to travel on interstate buses in the South to test the Supreme Court’s ruling. And I had their ear, explaining Supreme Court decisions on a regular basis over many years. In June, the court ruled in R.G. & EEOC that it does.

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Alabama approves congressional map with single majority Black district in defiance of US Supreme Court order

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Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey approved a new congressional map Friday, passed by the Alabama legislature during a special session , which designates only one majority-Black district in the state. The approval is in defiance of the US Supreme Court ruling in Allen v. ” Former US Attorney General Eric H.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Ninth Circuit declined to remand with instructions for dismissal of the underlying action and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. In Juliana v.

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