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How a veteran sketch artist offers a peek into oral arguments in the work-from-home era

SCOTUSBlog

Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades , Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments. The world closed in to keep the virus out, and so did the court. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, 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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Federal Court Strikes Down Social Media Age-Verification Law on First Amendment Grounds

JonathanTurley

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment. In Netchoice, LLC v.

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Don’t Look Back: Why the Innocent Sometimes Stay in Prison

The Crime Report

The hazard—a wrongful conviction, for example—has to pass through a police screen, a forensics screen, a prosecution screen, a grand jury screen, a defense screen, a jury screen and, ultimately, appellate court and collateral review screens, before it takes final effect. As a structural matter the legal machinery is blind to this reality.

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“Federal Court Moves to Drastically Weaken Voting Rights Act; The ruling, which is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, would effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups from suing under a key provision of the landmark law”

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“Federal Court Moves to Drastically Weaken Voting Rights Act; The ruling, which is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, would effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups from suing under a key provision of the landmark law”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report.

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US appeals court denies Biden administration request to stay lower court ruling against federal student loan forgiveness plan

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday rejected the Biden Administration’s attempt to stay a lower court ruling which found President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unlawful. This is just the latest in a series of legal blows to the Biden administration’s federal student loan forgiveness plan.