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Court Rulings Prod Expansion of Gun Rights Across U.S. 

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Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . Bruen, held that New York’s law requirement of a license to carry concealed weapons in public places was unconstitutional. .”

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How The Supreme Court Changed Juvenile Justice

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An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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

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Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Next up is Kelly v.

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RICO injury, federal jurisdiction, and giving veterans the benefit of the doubt

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One of those four involves an issue on which the court already is considering 11 other relisted cases: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments require the use of a 12-person jury to try defendants accused of felonies, rather than the six-person jury Florida affords for many such offenses. The district court refused, but the U.S.

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Judicial Clemency Does Not Forgive Sex Offender Registration

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In a 6-3 decision Ex parte Danny Richard Lane , the state’s highest criminal appeals court ruled that Texas’ historical doctrine of “judicial clemency” does not forgive sex offender registration. The Texas Legislature in 1991 enacted the state’s first sex offender registration program. Lane did not keep the appointment.

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Supreme Court once again considers the “categorical approach” to sentencing enhancements

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And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Justice Neil Gorsuch filed an opinion dissenting from the denial of cert , arguing that the court’s 1970 decision in Williams v.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. Clean Air Council v.

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