HowAppealing

MAY 20, 2023

“Federal court rules Alabama cannot execute Joseph Smith due to his mental disability”: Hadley Hitson of The Montgomery Advertiser has this report on a unanimous per curiam opinion that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.

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HowAppealing

MAY 19, 2024

“We’ll Protect Both Life and IVF: A Senate bill to clear up confusion after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling.” The post “We’ll Protect Both Life and IVF: A Senate bill to clear up confusion after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling.” ” U.S. ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“Supreme Court Declines to Revisit Alabama Voting Map Dispute; For the second time in recent months, the Supreme Court ruled against Alabama lawmakers and their proposed congressional district map”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report. Supreme Court. ” David G. .”

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”: Jacqueline Howard of CNN has this report. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children” appeared first on How Appealing. “How the reversal of Roe v.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2022

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is set to consider the role of race in redistricting decisions in a case concerning Alabama’s congressional district map. The post US Supreme Court reverses Wisconsin court ruling on legislative maps appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2023

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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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A US federal court on Wednesday partially blocked enforcement of an Alabama law criminalizing absentee ballot assistance. The court sided with a coalition of plaintiffs who argued the law would violate the rights of disabled, blind, and low-literacy voters. The judge enjoined several sections of Senate Bill 1 (SB1).

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HowAppealing

MARCH 13, 2024

“The People Rooting for the End of IVF; An Alabama court ruling that recognized an embryo as a child has put the popular fertility treatment into the center of a national ethics debate”: Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic has this report.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 6, 2024

“Thank the Alabama Supreme Court for its IVF decision. And in related news coverage, Kim Bellware of The Washington Post reports that “ Fourth couple sues Alabama clinic at heart of IVF court ruling.” ” The post “Thank the Alabama Supreme Court for its IVF decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Share Lawyers for Alabama voters urged the justices to stay out of a dispute over the state’s congressional map. Tuesday’s filings were the latest in the ongoing dispute over efforts in Alabama to draw new congressional maps in the wake of the 2020 census. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Share Lawyers for Alabama voters urged the justices to stay out of a dispute over the state’s congressional map. Tuesday’s filings were the latest in the ongoing dispute over efforts in Alabama to draw new congressional maps in the wake of the 2020 census. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Sept.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2023

As in Alabama, the people of Louisiana have the law on their side and the facts on their side. Robinson had previously been stayed while the Supreme Court deliberated in a similar case regarding Alabama, Allen v. The removal of the stay will allow a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling to go forward.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

Several of the courts conservative justices expressed skepticism about the map and about whether the 2022 ruling on which Louisiana relied to justify the creation of a second majority-Black district in the state was actually correct, but it was unclear whether those concerns would be enough to uphold the lower courts ruling.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Again Alabama is on the wrong side of a court ruling. The post Alabama’s F You To The Supreme Court Isn’t Working Out The Way They Hoped appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller v. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller v. Alabama and 2016’s Montgomery v. … For most, the answer is yes.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Earlier in the litigation, the court ruled that the gerrymandering claim was “justiciable” under the New Mexico Constitution. Justiciability refers to the ability of a court to hear an issue. This is not the only gerrymandering litigation in the US that has arisen before upcoming election cycles.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Alabama county bail system (John Kruzel, Reuters) Supreme Court won’t review North Carolina’s decision to nix license plates with Confederate flag (Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press) Where Texas redistricting lawsuits stand after U.S. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. We’ll be live at 9:45 a.m. The post The morning read for Friday, May 24 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: The Supreme Court banned affirmative action–except at military academies (Code Switch, NPR) Alabama’s congressional map dilutes the power of Black voters, advocates again tell Supreme Court (Ariane de Vogue & Fredreka Schouten, CNN) Supreme Court ruling sparks fears about economic fallout (Omar Mohammed, (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters in unexpected defense of Voting Rights Act (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press) Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in poop-themed dog toy trademark fight (Devan Cole, CNN) The Supreme Court’s Damper on the Right to Strike (E.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

JULY 24, 2023

Supreme Court Rulings Matter Except For When They Don't: Alabama doesn't care what Roberts has to say. If You Fail The Bar, You Can Do Something Very Funny: Hoping you don't need this but it's here either way. Lawyers Are Better At Math Than Election Law Scholars: Especially the ones named Derek Muller.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Smith was tried in Florida, but he argued that the venue was improper because he lives in Alabama. In Smith v.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Dentons will combine with Alabama law firm Dentons has announced that it will combine with Sirote & Permutt, an Alabama law firm with 86 lawyers…

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 18, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court revives South Carolina Planned Parenthood defunding case (Andrew Chung, Reuters) Drugmakers aim to strike down Medicare drug-price negotiations at Supreme Court (Spencer Kimball, CNBC) Supreme Court considers recoil from landmark gun rights ruling (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) ‘Historic and significant’: key lawyer’s verdict on Alabama (..)

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Additionally, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled in 1802 that once crossed over into Vermont, a slave contract from another state was unenforceable. Evidence lies in both the constitutional language and judicial precedent. Article 1 of Vermont’s Constitution states “[t]hat all persons are born equally free and independent.”

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L4SB

MARCH 12, 2024

The first of what we anticipate to be many court rulings on the CTA and FinCEN's enforcement ability, this case only enjoins FinCEN from enforcing as against the plaintiffs in this case.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The district court ruled in favor of the petitioners, and Galveston County appealed. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit said that the district court opinion was an error of law. The circuit courts are split on whether to allow allow these type of aggregate racial minority claims for Section 2 violations of the Voting Rights Act.

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Law 360

MAY 20, 2024

The Corporate Transparency Act's reporting requirements violate the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination and other constitutional provisions, libertarian think tank Cato Institute and others said Monday in urging the Eleventh Circuit to uphold an Alabama district court's ruling against the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

Share Two years after the court ruled that a disparity in bankrupt debtors’ fees between judicial districts was impermissible, the justices on Friday ruled 6-3 that charging equal fees going forward is an adequate remedy for that disparity. Traditionally, the Bankruptcy Administrator Program tracked the fees set by the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2024

” This District Court ruling was the center of the Supreme Court’s decision in Alexander. Under Court precedent, namely Miller v. In February, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld their congressional map over racial gerrymandering concerns. Johnson and Shaw v.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

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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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Alabama State Bar Formal Opinion 2008-03 – Lawyers’ Trust Account Obligations With Regard to Retainers and Set Fees State Bar of Arizona Ethics Opinion 10-03 – Fees; Fee Agreement; Non-Refundable Fees; Flat Fees State Bar of Georgia Formal Advisory Opinion No. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents , the Supreme Court ruled that a private individual could sue an FBI agent for violating his Fourth Amendment rights, even when there was not a specific law authorizing a claim for damages. The district court ruled that Boule’s claims would impermissibly extend Bivens , but the U.S.

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