SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to impose new restrictions on the ability of states to sentence juveniles to life without parole, rejecting a challenge from a Mississippi man, Brett Jones, who was convicted of the 2004 stabbing death of his grandfather, a crime committed when Jones was 15.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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Law 360

APRIL 13, 2023

The Fifth Circuit rejected a COVID-19 coverage appeal from a group of dental practices, finding that a recent Louisiana Supreme Court decision prevents coverage.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The update is that the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has decided United States v. The unanimous court decided that there was still no constitutional requirement for a unanimous court-martial verdict, despite the Supreme Court decision in Ramos v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

By allowing judges to ignore such considerations when sentencing a young person to die behind bars, the recent Supreme Court decision promises to further inequity. Since 2012, Louisiana has sentenced 57 percent of eligible juvenile offenders to life without parole compared to fewer than 2 percent in Pennsylvania.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. In effect, this means that nearly 60 million Americans live in states where the courts offer absolute immunity to federal officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Thirty-six years passed between Williams’ 1982 crime and his 2018 resentencing to life imprisonment, plus 60 years, after a court decision vacated his death sentence. Billy Sinclair spent 40 years in the Louisiana prison system, six of which were on death row. He was sentenced to death in 1983 for Shirley’s murder. ”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Reaction to the Furman decision was swift. Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system. Death penalty states worked hard to discern its meaning and to ascertain what they could do to restore capital punishment.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Six states have enacted contract pharmacy protections into law: Kansas , Maryland , Mississippi , and West Virginia in 2024, Louisiana in 2023, and Arkansas in 2021. Court decision, may be rendered inconsequential. Bills are pending in other states, including Missouri and New York.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Judge Terry Douglas of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Tuesday blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US health care workers. The injunction follows a Missouri district court decision to block the mandate in 10 states that was granted Monday.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

These rates were calculated by dividing (1) the total number of cases where a clause was enforced by (2) the total number of cases where the court considered the issue of enforceability. In theory, the fact that the federal courts apply federal common law to this question should produce uniform results across the nation.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2023

I spent more than 40 years in the Louisiana penal system—from December 1965 to April 2006. I was transferred from the “parish jail” to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in November 1966. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case. I know a thing or two about solitary confinement.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Their cases are about the failure of justice in the Louisiana criminal justice system. I know Louisiana justice. Both were committed to the Louisiana prison system with life sentences. Henry was committed to the Louisiana State Penitentiary when the prison—more commonly known as Angola—was the “bloodiest prison in America.”.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

I first stumbled on 911 call analysis while reporting on a police department in northern Louisiana. When they hear it,” a prosecutor in Louisiana once told Harpster, “it will be like a Dr. Phil ‘a-ha’ moment.” She has denied allegations of misconduct in other media interviews. I was wrong.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2024

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court clears way for Louisiana congressional map with 2 Black districts (Madison Fernandez, Politico) Supreme Court upholds Louisiana redistricting plan (Nina Totenberg, NPR) Ghostwriters Try Steering Supreme Court Justices Away from Cases (Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg Law) Ketanji Brown Jackson Notes Key Question (..)

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to throw out the charge against Plessy, his case ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Report authors highlighted a recent Supreme Court decision in Canada. Florida has the highest count of incarcerated people serving life without parole sentences.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

If the justices grant the petition, it would be the first time the Supreme Court addresses the First Amendment implications of secret audio recordings. In Louisiana v. Louisiana v. The next free-speech challenge involves the limits of the First Amendment’s prohibition on compelled speech.

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The Crime Report

MAY 23, 2022

A Louisiana judge rejected President Joe Biden’s push to end Title 42, which restricted access of would-be asylum seekers to the U.S. The Mexican Supreme Court decision came after immigration officers arrested three Indigenous Mexican migrants – all under the age of 24 – for how they looked, dressed, and their minimal Spanish use.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

The court may soon decide to answer that question. Amant, Louisiana. The trial court admitted evidence that the government had knowingly failed to disclose Gladys Mobley’s connection and denied the state’s motion to dismiss Granier’s petition. And as it happens, his mother Gladys Mobley sat on the jury that convicted Granier.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana. Alabama had asked the justices to reverse an appeals court decision that lifted Smith’s death sentence. Louisiana v. 5 until Nov. Callais and Robinson v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court issued a stay order Wednesday blocking a lower court decision that would have prevented using a newly drawn Louisiana congressional district map that includes two majority black districts in the six-district state. The order itself did not contain any reasoning for issuing the stay. .”

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

Lujan Grisham signed the order in response to the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. The day the ruling came down, Lujan Grisham put out a statement explaining how New Mexico prepared in anticipation of the decision. The order protects those who provide abortion services from out-of-state civil or criminal liability.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Louisiana , the U.S. District Courts in Louisiana and Kentucky agreed with the plaintiffs and preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the rule in the plaintiff States. In Department of Education v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana. If the lower courts decision allowing RJR Vapors case to go forward stands, the FDA says, other manufacturers will also try to get around the restrictions that federal law imposes on where such challenges can be filed. The company, R.J.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In its petition, Great Lakes claims that choice of law under federal admiralty has been utter chaos since a 1955 Supreme Court decision , made tolerable only by strict enforcement of choice-of-law clauses. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed. New Relists Brown v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

This begs the question of what is genuinely considered as an “emergency decision,” as opposed to a decision that the court is trying to make hastily with little fanfare. Decisions that could have significant ramifications on Americans must be heard on a more substantive level. Louisiana v. American Rivers.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

The question came to the court in the case of Natoya Cunningham , who was convicted by a six-person jury and sentenced to eight years in prison. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction. It pointed to another recent state court decision that rejected a defendant’s challenge to the constitutionality of a six-person jury.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Here is a full list of the cases set for argument during the March argument session: Louisiana v. Callais ) (March 24) A challenge to a lower courts decision to strike down a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. Callais (consolidated with Robinson v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. Louisiana v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Judicial factfinding for restitution Under Apprendi v. New Jersey , [o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Under the Supreme Court decision Allen v. Rights groups have recently challenged redistricting maps in Georgia , Tennessee , North Dakota , Louisiana , Alabama , and South Carolina. Milligan , states are required to consider racial criteria when redistricting to avoid diluting the voting power of protected groups.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Comparing court decisions with which he disagreed to Dred Scott was almost a reflexive tactic of his. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. He really wrestled with the facts. In Plessy v.

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