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

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The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. Iowa Pork Producers Association v. This week it disposed of four.

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

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Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Last up is Grzegorczyk v.

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Court adds seven new cases to the 2025-26 term

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Three justices – Gorsuch and Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett – would have held that courts cannot undertake such a balancing test, while six others disagreed. In Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Given the sheer number of landlords and tenants, any eviction-moratorium statute stands to affect countless parties.”

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

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