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The decision stems from a lawsuit brought by the Arkansas State Conference NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel. The suit alleged that the Arkansas House of Representatives reapportionment plan dilutes the voting power of Black people.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Arkansas Thursday filed a petition with the US Supreme Court challenging an Arkansas law requiring state contractors to sign a pledges stating they will not boycott Israel.
“ACLU asks supreme court to overturn Arkansas’ anti-boycott law against Israel; The civil rights group says the law is in conflict with a 40-year-old supreme courtruling that boycotts are protected speech”: Chris McGreal of The Guardian (UK) has this report.
The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. According to the AP , the White House dismissed the lawsuit as baseless.
However, the court found that the proper standard does not require perfect adherence for the plaintiffs to show that they hold a sincere religious belief. Thus, the court vacated the district courtruling and remanded the case for further proceedings.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote to express concern at the Eighth Circuit’s reversal of an Arkansas federal courtruling that recognized issues in the death penalty trial of Mickey Thomas. He’s been in solitary confinement for most of the last 30 years.
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Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals courtruling that bars the city of Tulsa from enforcing municipal ordinances against Native Americans. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on hold to give the city time to appeal. But two years later, the Supreme Courtruled in McGirt v.
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That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, courtrules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]
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