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SCOTUS dispatch: Supreme Court appears likely to side with straight women in ‘reverse discrimination’ case

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and the admission of new attorneys to the Supreme Court bar. I smiled politely, trying to telepathically assess how she would vote on the gender-affirming care case I covered in December. But the Department added that Ames could not meet the evidence requirements of an employment discrimination case regardless.

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Supreme Court affirms death penalty, with a Batson dissent

At the Lectern

and California Supreme Court decisions holding it unconstitutional for an attorney to racially discriminate in peremptorily challenging prospective jurors. The superior court ruled the defendant had not made even a prima facie case of discrimination and thus did not require the prosecutor to justify his challenge.

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Supreme Court will resolve conflict about co-tenancy leasing requirements (and about punctuation?)

At the Lectern

The 62-page unpublished opinion of the Fourth District, Division One, addressed several issues, so it’s not clear why Justice Liu wanted to hear the case, but one of the issues has been of repeated interest to him. ” Three years ago, Justice Liu issued a separate statement in a case raising a similar issue. c)(1); People v.

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The drop in straight grants is indeed not permanent — Part I

At the Lectern

In another case involving the Racial Justice Act (see Montgomery above and Avalos below), the court issued an order to show cause, returnable in the superior court, in In re Naddi , a pro per’s habeas corpus petition. Rules of Court, rule 8.528(d); see In re Benoit (1973) 10 Cal.3d ” (Link added.)