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Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting

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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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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Harlan’s moral vision is memorialized in his lone dissent in Plessy v. born children.

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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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Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. On it, Harpster has openly espoused misogynistic, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views. He doesn’t want a legal precedent prohibiting the admission of his research.”

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. In Juliana v.

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