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Supreme Court adds four cases to next term’s docket 

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But the Court does not grant review to correct factbound errors, it emphasized and in any event, the lower courts decision was correct. His case, along with the others granted on Monday, will likely be argued in the fall, with a decision to follow sometime next year.

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In a slew of new cases, the justices take in closer look

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City of Englewood, New Jersey , 23-1189 Issues : (1) Whether the City of Englewoods speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment; and (2) whether the court should overrule Hill v. City of Carbondale, Illinois , 24-57 Issue: Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. 10 conference.)

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Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

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That brings us to this weeks conference, in which there are 143 petitions and applications on the Supreme Courts docket. Government contractors defenses to torts The GEO Group, Inc. The class action alleged violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and Colorado common law prohibitions against unjust enrichment.

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'Don't You Want To Confirm Who I Am?' a Mistakenly Arrested Grandmother Asked the Marshals. They Did Not.

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McCarthy had plenty of evidence to contradict that conclusion, including her driver's license from Colorado, where she had lived before Arizona. As Reason 's Billy Binion notes , subsequent Supreme Court decisions make it doubtful whether Bivens claims are viable in practice. the Westfall Act. the Westfall Act.

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Justices consider next steps in murder case in which prosecution admits error

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At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. The court also agreed to take up a twice-relisted challenge to Colorados ban on conversion therapy.

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In lawsuit originally filed by J.D. Vance, GOP asks court to overrule limit on campaign spending

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A series of Supreme Court decisions have weighed in on the 1971 laws campaign-spending rules. Valeo , the court struck down the limits on independent expenditures but generally upheld the limits on contributions. A quarter-century later, in 2001, the court in FEC v. In its landmark 1976 ruling in Buckley v.

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Red states urge Supreme Court to block suits against big oil

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While the Supreme Court routinely throws out lower-court decisions granting prisoners habeas relief, its fairly uncommon for the justices to summarily grant relief to habeas petitioners. City of Carbondale, Illinois , 24-57 Issue: Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. Relisted after the Nov. 10 and Jan. 10 and Jan.

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