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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. A lower court decided that the maps did violate Section 2. “Yet, that is what Alabama has been commanded to do here: redraw its districts to subordinate traditional districting principles to race.”

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

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The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. That decision distinguishes between types of gambling that a state prohibits outright and types of gambling that a state tolerates subject to regulation. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.

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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

At the Lectern

It’s time again (actually, past time) to look at how the California Supreme Court fared at the U.S. Supreme Court during the latter’s most recent term, which ended last month. 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.

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

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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the District Court for the District of Columbia has caused a bit of a stir after a hearing in a criminal case where she called for briefing on the alternative grounds for the right to an abortion. The court came to this question by a rather circuitous route. Alabama , 219 U.S. 480, 484 (1990).

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The Most Interesting Supreme Court Rulings of 2024

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The most recent Supreme Court term was marked by a sustained challenge to the authority of administrative agencies, significant victories for former President Donald J. Trump, and conflicting signals on issues related to firearms and abortion, leading to a series of impactful decisions. Presidential Immunity In Trump v.

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

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A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. 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.

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