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Recent Court Decisions Add to Uncertainty for Businesses

Intelligize Blog

A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar?

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US Supreme Court declines to take up cash bail constitutionality case

JURIST

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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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. In Miller v. Four years later, in Montgomery v.

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US Supreme Court allows retrial of criminal defendant if tried in wrong district court

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the US Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the prosecution from retrying a criminal defendant if it is determined that the original trial venue was improper. The court, however, disagreed. In Smith v.

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SCOCA and SCOTUS, October 2023 term

At the Lectern

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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Federal Judge Suggests Abortion May Be Protected Under 13th Amendment’s Ban on Involuntary Servitude

JonathanTurley

They have asked for the dismissal of the indictment for lack of jurisdiction since the Court ruled in Dobbs that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” Professor Koppelman quoted a 1911 servitude decision in Bailey v. Alabama , 219 U.S. Alabama , 219 U.S. 480, 484 (1990). Bangerter , 61 F.3d

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The Most Interesting Supreme Court Rulings of 2024

LegalTalkNetwork

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.