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A ‘Fair and Speedy Trial’ is a Pipe Dream for Many Poor Americans: Study

The Crime Report

Over 30 states lack laws that establish a firm deadline for initial appearances, requiring only that such appearances occur “within a reasonable time,” with the result that individuals can be held behind bars for weeks before seeing an attorney, charge the report’s authors. The Supreme Court has never said,” the authors assert.

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No civil liability for sharing truthful information about matter of public concern.

Day on Torts

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Mopping up final business with 14 new relists

SCOTUSBlog

20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. Then there is a case on the court’s original docket , Mississippi v. Cummings v.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1995, when Curtis was 27, lawyers sued the state on her behalf, demanding that she be transferred to a group home or other setting where she could receive better care.

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Court seems inclined to let abortion providers pursue their challenge to Texas law

SCOTUSBlog

After nearly three hours of argument by four different lawyers, the justices appeared likely to allow the case brought by a group of Texas abortion providers to go forward, even if they did not necessarily appear to agree on the rationale for that lawsuit. The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in two challenges to S.B.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

SCOTUSBlog

After the Washington attorney general learned about Stutzman’s refusal, he sued her for violating the state’s antidiscrimination laws, as did Ingersoll and his husband. whose lawyers contribute to SCOTUSblog in various capacities, is counsel to the respondents in this case.]. Mississippi v.

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Supreme Court set to hear arguments in two challenges to Texas law that bans most abortions

SCOTUSBlog

The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. Four lawyers will argue on Monday. The law is largely the brainchild of Mitchell , a lawyer who served as a law clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia and as the solicitor general of Texas.

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