JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The nation asserts that the city lacks criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans on the tribe’s lands without express congressional authorization, as per the 2020 US Supreme Court case McGirt v. The Muscogee Creek Tribe is originally from an area straddling the border between what is now Georgia and Alabama.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2022

The Court’s action today is unprecedented. In an emergency posture, the Court summarily overturns a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision resolving a conflict over the State’s redistricting, a decision rendered after a 5-month process involving all interested stakeholders.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Supreme Court allowed Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting map that includes only one district with a majority of Black voters. While a lower court agreed with challengers that the map constitutes illegal racial gerrymandering, the Supreme Court granted a stay, effectively putting the order on hold.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The court, however, disagreed. The court found that the appeal’s court decision in this case, which vacated Smith’s original conviction in the improper venue, “did not adjudicate Smith’s culpability, and thus [did] not trigger the Double Jeopardy Clause.”

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The brief unsigned order, from which there were no public dissents, came less than four months after a divided Supreme Court agreed that the 2021 iteration of the map violated federal law by weakening the collective voting power of Black voters in the state. Alabama came back to the Supreme Court on Sept.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In reaching its decision, the Court confirmed that the Voting Rights Act prohibits discriminatory effects, not just discriminatory intent.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Matt Ford, The New Republic) Homophobic Business Owners Are Having a Field Day Since Last Month’s Supreme Court Decision (Hila Keren, Slate) The post The morning read for Wednesday, July 26 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In 1968, Congress transferred the federal government’s trust responsibility for the Pueblo to the state of Texas, following a similar action it had taken in 1954 for a much larger reservation held by the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas. Three provisions of the Restoration Act are relevant.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Under the Supreme Court decision Allen v. Rights groups have recently challenged redistricting maps in Georgia , Tennessee , North Dakota , Louisiana , Alabama , and South Carolina. Milligan , states are required to consider racial criteria when redistricting to avoid diluting the voting power of protected groups.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

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Law 360

APRIL 22, 2021

An ex-manager at an Alabama state pension fund urged the Eleventh Circuit to grant a full-panel rehearing of her gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, claiming the judges who affirmed the lower court's decision to dismiss the case broke with court precedent.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision on Wednesday, which found that the Senate congressional map did not violate the state’s constitution. Several Missouri citizens previously challenged the map, drawn by a court-appointed redistricting commission, for failing to preserve communities of interest.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court issued a stay order Wednesday blocking a lower court decision that would have prevented using a newly drawn Louisiana congressional district map that includes two majority black districts in the six-district state.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. This was not easy.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2021

Supreme Court decision Batson vs. Kentucky sets the standard used by courts today for determining whether a party’s challenge of a juror is discriminatory, but critics say it’s easy to get around and challenges are rarely successful. The 1986 U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

The Alabama House passed a bill and the state Senate unanimously passed another on Thursday that would safeguard access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) following the Alabama Supreme Court decision in LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic, Inc. which classified frozen embryos as children.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Smith argued that trial in the Northern District of Florida was improper because he had accessed StrikeLines’ website from his home in Mobile (in the Southern District of Alabama) and the servers storing StrikeLines’ data were located in Orlando (in the Middle District of Florida).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 16, 2023

Smith argued that trial in the Northern District of Florida was improper because he had accessed StrikeLines’ website from his home in Mobile (in the Southern District of Alabama) and the servers storing StrikeLines’ data were located in Orlando (in the Middle District of Florida).

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

The Alabama House of Representatives rejected a bill on Wednesday that would allow the resentencing of death row inmates who were sentenced by a trial judge. The bill was defeated in Alabama’s House Judicial Committee by a 9-4 vote. In 2016, the US Supreme Court issued an opinion on Hursts v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The court also sent Joseph Smith’s case from Alabama’s death row back to the court of appeals for more clarification of the basis for the lower court’s decision. Alabama had asked the justices to reverse an appeals court decision that lifted Smith’s death sentence. 5 until Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Supreme Court Restores Alabama Voting Map That a Court Said Hurt Black Voters (Adam Liptak, The New York Times). The surprising liberal consensus emerging about Biden’s Supreme Court decision (Ronald Brownstein, CNN). What Makes a Good Supreme Court Justice?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite consideration of their petition for review.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

As is frequently the case when the court denies review in cases that have been relisted repeatedly, denial occasioned dissent, this time from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to impose new restrictions on the ability of states to sentence juveniles to life without parole, rejecting a challenge from a Mississippi man, Brett Jones, who was convicted of the 2004 stabbing death of his grandfather, a crime committed when Jones was 15.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

A handful of states — Alabama, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to the advocacy group MAP — make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to youths.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

In 1993, William Neilly was sentenced in Michigan state court to life without the possibility of parole for a homicide he committed as a juvenile. Because of intervening Supreme Court decisions prohibiting the imposition of no-parole life sentences for juvenile offenders, he was resentenced to a lesser sentence. 21 and Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Reeves , 20-1084 , is the latest state-on-top petition in a habeas case alleging that a federal habeas court failed to defer to a state court decision affirming a criminal conviction, as required by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Alabama explicitly asks for summary reversal. While cases from the U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The answer the court gave was a stern rebuke, vitiating the plenary control that lower-court decisions had granted the state for more than a quarter of a century.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Comparing court decisions with which he disagreed to Dred Scott was almost a reflexive tactic of his. And it would have given African Americans the assurance that the Supreme Court was on their side.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Professor Koppelman quoted a 1911 servitude decision in Bailey v. Alabama , 219 U.S. ” Bailey involved an Alabama law making it a crime to refuse to do labor under a contract. Alabama , 219 U.S. ” Bailey involved an Alabama law making it a crime to refuse to do labor under a contract. 480, 484 (1990).

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. “He knows there will be a great legal hurdle getting the research admitted,” she wrote in an email to a colleague in another county, who also wanted Harpster to testify. “He

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2021

This appeals court decision means that violating physicians will face criminal charges and up to two years in prison. Reaction to the decision has been predictably mixed. According to The Center for Reproductive Rights stated that D&E abortion bans have been struck down in Alabama, Indiana and Kansas amongst others.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

However, he then said it was worth extending the moratorium because it would take time for a court to intervene and, in the interim, they could rush out money to renters despite the lack of constitutional authority to do so. Like many, I was mystified by the Supreme Court decision not to strike down the moratorium.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Guinness World Records recently announced that an Alabama boy named Curtis Means is the most premature baby to survive. While such cases aren’t yet the norm, Curtis’ story prompted one politically independent commentator to remark , “Medical science advancement poses a greater risk to the abortion status quo than any court decision.”.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 6, 2024

Gregg and Seifu had been grant-and-holds in the California Supreme Court, which later dismissed review without opinions. Supreme Court the chance to disapprove the California Supreme Court decision in Adolph v. However, the issue raised in the cases gave the U.S. Uber Technologies, Inc. 2023) 14 Cal.5th

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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