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Justices asked to review Arizona’s life-without-parole sentencing scheme for youths

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Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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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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