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Justice Jackson Offers Fresh Interpretation of 14th Amendment in Alabama Case

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Milligan is a case about whether Alabama’s 2021 redistricting plan for the state’s U.S. “Yet, that is what Alabama has been commanded to do here: redraw its districts to subordinate traditional districting principles to race.” Wade’s recently overturned decision on reproductive rights, and Brown v.

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Justices to review long-simmering dispute over gambling on tribal lands in Texas

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That decision distinguishes between types of gambling that a state prohibits outright and types of gambling that a state tolerates subject to regulation. In 1983, responding to a lower-court decision holding that the transfer of those trust responsibilities violated the Texas Constitution, Texas terminated the trust relationship.

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Divided court rejects Texas’ bid to control gambling in tribal casinos

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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. The most controversial provisions of that statute, addressed in Ysleta , are the provisions that govern the tribes’ subjection to Texas gambling regulations.

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

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The theory runs against the text, history, and case law of the Thirteenth Amendment. The court came to this question by a rather circuitous route. That academic attention is generally a reference to a 1990 Northwestern University Law Review article, which is cited by the Court in its order. Alabama , 219 U.S.

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

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As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Some worked behind the scenes. A few attained modest fame.

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The Most Interesting Supreme Court Rulings of 2024

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“This will go down in history reading as a 6-3 opinion, but it was actually 5-4 because Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually did set out one of the key arguments, which is that you can’t criminally prosecute over official versus unofficial acts,” said Joe Patrice, an editor of Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like a Lawyer.