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

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Under Arizona law, the trial judge could have sentenced Bassett for each count to either life in prison without the possibility of parole or life in prison with the possibility of “release” after 25 years. Arizona had passed a law a decade earlier rendering anyone convicted of homicide, including murder, ineligible for parole.

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. Garland is an immigration case. The post Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration appeared first on SCOTUSblog. 27 and Oct.

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Free exercise, greenhouse-gas regulation, and a slew of other relists from the long conference

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. , relisted after the Sept. 27 conference).

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Arizona Federal Court Declined to Put Challenge to Trump “Waters of the United States” Rule on Hold. The federal district court for the District of Arizona denied EPA and the U.S. Arizona Alleged that Halting Border Wall Construction and Ending “Remain in Mexico” Program Required NEPA Review. Center for Biological Diversity v.

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