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“Constitutional Law, Constitutional Litigation, and the Truth About Constitutional Text”

HowAppealing

Constitutional Law, Constitutional Litigation, and the Truth About Constitutional Text”: Eric Segall has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

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Supreme Court declines South Carolina agency appeal in Google antitrust case

JURIST

SCDPR’s petition argued that waiver of sovereign immunity should be limited to specific litigation stakes and claimed the Fourth Circuit’s ruling contradicted other circuits’ precedents on state agency autonomy.

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Justice Mahmud Jamal becomes first person of color to sit on Canada Supreme Court

JURIST

It speaks to his long career as a litigator before his appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2019. He appeared before the Supreme Court 35 times on civil, constitutional, criminal, and regulatory issues. Jamal’s questionnaire has been made public.

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‘Free-World’ Regulations Could Prevent Prison Abuses: Study

The Crime Report

Applying the regulatory approach used in the “free-world” has significant advantages over constitutional law in mitigating abusive conditions in prisons and jails, according to a paper published in the Yale Law Journal. Constitutional law does not fill the gap,” Littman writes. “[It

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SCOTUS Adds LGBTQ Book Case to Docket

Constitutional Law Reporter

At the outset of the litigation, the Parents moved for a preliminary injunction to require the Board to provide such notice and an opt-out option. The post SCOTUS Adds LGBTQ Book Case to Docket appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. After the district court denied their motion, the Parents appealed.

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Gain Experience with Paralegal Pro Bono Work

Paralegal Bootcamp

I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. The case was over, and the partner in charge of that case was also in charge of the firm’s entire litigation department. If you’re reading this and you were a litigation paralegal in the 90s before eDiscovery became mainstream, you know what I’m talking about.

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Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution

SCOTUSBlog

It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments.