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Muscogee Creek Nation files lawsuit against Oklahoma city for breaches of tribal sovereignty in traffic enforcement

JURIST

The nation asserts that the city lacks criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans on the tribe’s lands without express congressional authorization, as per the 2020 US Supreme Court case McGirt v. The Muscogee Creek Tribe is originally from an area straddling the border between what is now Georgia and Alabama.

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Bell Law Firm Wins Appeal in Case of Botched Central Line

LegalReader

Georgia Court of Appeals reverses previous trial court decision and sets stage for new trial.

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

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court doesn’t care all that much for method-of-execution challenges. It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. Nance eventually challenged Georgia’s lethal injection protocol, which uses a single drug (pentobarbital).

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

SCOTUSBlog

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. In Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. Goertz , 21-442.

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Why the ‘Machinery of Death’ Keeps Running

The Crime Report

My research on capital punishment suggests that both the arguments of today’s abolitionists and the current stalemate can be traced back half a century to the Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in a landmark death penalty case: Furman v. Four years after Furman, the death penalty was back before the Supreme Court. Austin Sarat.

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Court of Appeals Finds That Digital Remasters of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Likely Do Not Result in New Copyrighted Work That Would Bring These Songs under Federal Law – Reversing District Court Decision

Broadcast Law Blog

The decision looks like a simple premise that digitization is no magic bullet to defeat pre-1972 sound recording claims, but there is much to unpack in this seemingly straightforward decision. First, we need to provide a little background on the litigation over pre-1972 sound recordings.

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Florida Supreme Court Rejects Public Performance Right in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings – What’s Next?

Broadcast Law Blog

This case reached the Florida Supreme Court when it was certified by the United State Court of Appeals which was reviewing a District Court decision reaching the same conclusion as did the Florida Supreme Court – that there was no performance right under state law for pre-1972 sound recordings (see our summary of the District Court decision here ).

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