ABA Journal

JULY 1, 2021

Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that two Arizona voting restrictions do not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Developing: The U.S. Justice Samuel…

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JURIST

MARCH 3, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that will shape the future of restrictive voting rights laws. The court heard arguments in the combined cases of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee concerning two Arizona state laws.

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JULY 7, 2021

Share This article is the final entry in a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee is not only the correct result under the applicable law – Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act – it is a common-sense decision that upholds traditional state voting rules that Section 2 was never meant to reach.

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The Crime Report

JULY 6, 2022

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that requires voters in presidential elections to show proof of citizenship, saying it flouts a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar attempt from Arizona to enact a proof-of-citizenship requirement, reports the Washington Post.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Arizona “generally makes it quite easy for residents to vote.” Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. Democratic National Committee.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2022

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Is the Roberts Court the Least Productive Court of All Time? Study finds Supreme Court on far right of American public (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service).

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Friday sent the case of an Arizona man convicted of drug possession back to the state courts. But the justices sent the case back to the state courts for them to determine whether the absent analyst’s statements qualified as “testimony” – another criteria for the confrontation clause to apply.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 4, 2022

See, e.g., Arizona Ethics Op. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in September 2005 to foster increased civility, professionalism and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in the state of Illinois. 2215 (2012).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A Tennessee appeals court has unanimously ruled Tim Gilbert, a Black man convicted of aggravated assault and other charges by an all-white jury should get a new trial, saying that prosecutors failed to rebut a claim made by defense lawyers that the room where the jury deliberated was prejudicial to the man, reports the New York Times.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Table of contents What Are Lawyer Flat Fees? The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? Are Fees Refundable? What Are Lawyer Flat Fees?

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JURIST

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire filed a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief in the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire on Monday challenging the state’s new voter identification law. The legal action targets legislation requiring proof of U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court Rules on Tribal Police and Immigrants’ Testimony (Adam Liptak, The New York Times). billion cancer case award (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. 1982), the Supreme Court addressed a boycott of white-owned businesses in Mississippi. District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled for Martin on the core constitutional challenge. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Cochran present a frontal assault on the traditional framework under which federal courts have entertained complaints about federal agencies. The first case involves Axon Enterprise, an Arizona company that makes police body cameras and other technology products for law enforcement. SEC that the ALJ’s appointment was unlawful.

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JULY 8, 2022

Immigration has historically been the purview of the federal government, and states have refrained from seeking to enforce federal immigration laws themselves, particularly after a Supreme Court ruling a decade ago knocked down an effort by Arizona to do so.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case that UCLA law professor Richard Hasen has called the “ 800-pound gorilla ” of election law. The Supreme Court has never endorsed the independent state legislature theory in a majority opinion. The case, Moore v. House of Representatives.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2025

Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona ruled Wednesday that Arizona’s abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional and permanently enjoined Arizona employees from enforcing the abortion ban. And Planned Parenthood Arizona will not stop fighting for our patients and our health care staff.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Friday that licensed physicians can legally perform abortions insofar as the fetus is less than 15 weeks old. In September 2022, a trial court ruled that a 1901 near-total abortion ban could be enforced following Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The trial began with the introduction of evidence that the New York Times editorial board ignored internal objections to publishing the 2017 column linking Palin to the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona in which then-U.S. In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. Justice Kavanaugh writes, quoting Linda R.S. :

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court Wednesday granted a request by death row inmate John Cruz for post conviction relief from his 2005 death sentence. In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the court ruled that the Arizona Supreme Court incorrectly held that the 2016 case Lynch v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Third, the court found that BLM used internally inconsistent emission rates. In 2018, the court vacated EPA’s earlier denial of the request.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a 200-word description of a ballot initiative to enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution was valid and determined voters would see the initiative on the statewide general election ballot.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

Arizona’s Supreme Court found on Tuesday that a 159-year-old law banning abortion is enforceable following the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights case Roe v Wade, sending a 52-year-old case back to trial court. Given the injunction, and in line with Roe , Arizona’s abortion policy evolved.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over an election law that requires state residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in presidential and other federal elections. House Bill 2492 was signed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in March. Inter Tribal Council, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Arizona to execute a man who suffered from severe mental illness and, according to his lawyers, did not understand why the state wanted to put him to death. Shortly after the court rejected Dixon’s final appeal, Arizona executed him by lethal injection. Clarence Dixon.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

US law student and undergraduate delegates passed four proposed amendments Sunday at the first-ever Model Constitutional Convention hosted by Arizona State University (ASU) Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. This followed two days of discussion and deliberation in Phoenix, Arizona. New London.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

An Arizona court Friday ruled that the state’s 1901 abortion ban may be enforced. The court disagreed, finding that because “the legal basis for the judgment entered in 1973 has now been overruled, it must vacate the judgment in its entirety.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 9, 2024

“Abortion in Arizona set to be illegal in nearly all circumstances, state high court rules”: Ray Stern and Stacey Barchenger of The Arizona Republic have this report. Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star reports that “ Court ruling makes nearly all abortions in Arizona illegal.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In a per curiam opinion on Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in overturning the death sentence of inmate George Kayer, who robbed and murdered his companion on a gambling trip in Laughlin, Nevada, in 1994. A trial court jury found Kayer guilty of first-degree murder.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Share In what was only the second opinion day of the 2022-23 term, the Supreme Court delivered a rare win for a criminally convicted petitioner and offered a clarifying example of when it is appropriate for a federal court to intervene when a state court fails to apply federal law. Arizona in 2016.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“Supreme Court Rules for Death Row Inmate in Arizona; By a 5-to-4 vote, the justices sided with John Montenegro Cruz, who was sentenced to death by jurors who were not told he would be ineligible for parole if they voted for a life sentence”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Planned Parenthood of Arizona Monday asked an Arizona state judge to stay a September 23 ruling which would allow a 1901 abortion ban to go into effect. The ban went into effect shortly after the Superior Court of Pima County ruling and bans all abortions unless the procedure is necessary to save a pregnant person’s life.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Share Two men on Arizona’s death row are not entitled to present new evidence in federal court to support their arguments that their trial lawyers bungled their cases, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-3 decision. In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court sided with Arizona. “[O]nly

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Arizona , the Supreme Court will consider whether an Arizona rule of criminal procedure, Rule 32.1(g) g) , precludes Arizona courts from applying federal law to a defendant’s case in post-conviction proceedings. South Carolina , the Supreme Court addressed this very issue. In 2016, the U.S.

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