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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

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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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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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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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SCOCA and SCOTUS, October 2023 term

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There was no direct review of any of the state court’s work, but there were some notable high court/California Supreme Court-related actions. The two certiorari denials in Uber Technologies v. Gregg and Seifu had been grant-and-holds in the California Supreme Court, which later dismissed review without opinions.

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Modernize U.S. abortion law — and return abortion policy to the democratic process

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Modern technology has pushed this frontier further back. Guinness World Records recently announced that an Alabama boy named Curtis Means is the most premature baby to survive. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in Roe , “Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.”

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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. The chief justice came to the court with lifelong desires to make everything work better. Among the Freedom Riders was Congressman John Lewis, who also died this year.

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