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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The treaty eventually led to the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its land east of the Mississippi and the deaths of many Cherokee Natives on the Trail of Tears. Article 7 of the Treaty of New Echota grants the nation a delegate in the US House of Representatives as a necessary condition of the treaty.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

What if the decisions of your 15-year-old self now made it impossible for you to have a family, a career, or any life at all? Supreme Court’s April decision on Jones v. Mississippi , the majority of justices made it much easier for teens who commit serious crimes to pay with the rest of their lives. Mississippi.

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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. Mississippi.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (2011), another case involving a default judgment against China under the FSIA, in which the court of appeals held that plaintiffs could not use assets belonging to agencies or instrumentalities of China to satisfy a judgment against China itself. Again, the defendants chose not to appear.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. An Arizona Senate committee Thursday voted in favor of a bill that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dobbs poses the best opportunity in decades to revisit some of the court’s most contentious precedents and modernize U.S. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and her team are urging the court to reverse Roe and return this issue to legislatures, the proper realm for policymaking. We at Susan B.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2023

Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case. In response, prison officials constructed three fenced exercise yards—one for each tier—that allowed inmates to exercise each day for one hour and allowed them to spend an additional hour on the tier outside of their cells for showering. Sinclair v.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

.” Tyler Olson of Fox News reports that “ Supreme Court lets challenge to Texas abortion law proceed, allows law to remain in effect; Ruling comes as Supreme Court considers major Mississippi abortion case, too.” ” Reese Oxner of The Texas Tribune reports that “ U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2025

Reynolds Vapor Company, joined a lawsuit by retailers based in Texas and Mississippi two states covered by the 5th Circuit. 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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2021

The court just accepted review in a Mississippi case that could deliver a crippling, or even lethal, blow to Roe. The Mississippi legislature moved to ban abortions after 15 weeks, seven weeks earlier than past laws passing constitutional muster. Now, however, reality has caught up to the hyperbole.

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2022

The injunction came after the Supreme Court’s leaked decision overturning Roe v. Wade —the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion. At the end of June, the Supreme Court did indeed overrule Roe v. Wade in their decision in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Share More than 140 amicus briefs were filed in Dobbs v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

While many countries have decriminalized abortion, most are closer to Mississippi than Michigan in limiting abortion to the first or second trimester. These polls suggest that the majority of Americans will continue to live in states protecting abortion while citizens would support limits like the one in Mississippi.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , 19-1392 , a case that was originally on track for the court’s Sept. The case involves a Mississippi law that prohibits abortion, with limited exceptions, after 15 weeks’ gestation. They argue that the court nonetheless should grant review in order to clarify the law for future elections.

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