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Alabama Prosecutes Mother for Using Prescribed Medication

The Crime Report

Since 2006, when meth labs were appearing across rural communities, Alabama has made it a felony to expose a child to a chemically toxic environment by enforcing heavier penalties on people who make drugs around children, exposing them to the vapors that are emitted in the creation of crack and meth.

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

The Crime Report

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.” House seats violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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New Jersey Supreme Court allows review of juvenile sentences

JURIST

The legislature has yet to amend the law, which requires a mandatory sentence of at least 30 years without parole for juveniles and adults convicted under certain homicide statutes. Alabama : the juvenile’s age and immaturity, the juveniles family home environment, the circumstances of the offense, peer pressure and legal naivete.

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Court to scrutinize disparate fees under Constitution’s bankruptcy clause

SCOTUSBlog

A small group of bankruptcy judges in six of the 90-odd judicial districts nationwide, backed by their senators (in Alabama and North Carolina) managed to have their districts excluded from the U.S. Trustee program, so Congress can’t be blamed for lack of uniformity when it adopted the challenged statute. Well, not quite.

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Disqualified voters challenge Virginia’s felony disenfranchisement provision

JURIST

The plaintiffs allege that this provision violates the Virginia Readmission Act , a law passed in 1870 alongside a series of statutes to readmit representatives from former Confederate states to Congress. The case concerns a provision of the state constitution that automatically disenfranchises a person with any felony conviction.

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Court holds disparate fees in business bankruptcy cases unconstitutional

SCOTUSBlog

Fitzgerald , unanimously agreeing on Monday that a statute that imposes higher fees on bankruptcy filers in 48 states than in the other two states is so far from “uniform” that it transgresses the Constitution’s requirement that Congress provide “uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.”.

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

SCOTUSBlog

States subject to Cabazon Band were entitled (under a federal statute referred to as Public Law 280) to prevent the prohibited types of gambling even on reservations, but they cannot enforce their regulatory regimes against those types of gambling that are regulated but not prohibited. Three provisions of the Restoration Act are relevant.

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