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Missouri Supreme Court upholds congressional maps over citizen concerns

JURIST

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision on Wednesday, which found that the Senate congressional map did not violate the state’s constitution. ” The Missouri Constitution lays out the procedure for creating House and Senate districts.

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Court green-lights execution of Missouri man who presented evidence of racist prosecutor

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Share For the second time in less than a week, the Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Kevin Johnson, paving the way for Missouri to carry out his lethal injection on Tuesday night. Johnson returned to the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, once again asking the justices to stay his execution.

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Minnesota court denies request to require statewide public school mask mandate

JURIST

.” They also argued that PASS lacked standing because it failed to prove: that its members suffered an injury-in-fact; that the alleged injury was fairly traceable to an action by Walz and Minnesota; and that the injury was redressable by a favorable court decision.

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False Confessions: Protecting the Vulnerable

The Crime Report

Forensic guardianships, which entail wards who are at substantial risk of being questioned by law enforcement officials, are assiduously protected by the law; and they have been further reinforced by Supreme Court decisions. The lack of training is particularly telling in Missouri. in continuing education courses.

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United States: No Early Dismissal In Post-TCPA Facebook Case - Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

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Recently, a Missouri federal court analyzed how the United States Supreme Court decision in Facebook v. Duguid ("Facebook") interprets the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA").

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In rejecting a prisoner’s post-conviction claim, court plants seeds for narrowing habeas relief

SCOTUSBlog

(The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Missouri that such shackling practices violate a defendant’s due process rights.) The answer to that question turned on the relationship between a Supreme Court decision and a congressional statute. In Brecht v.

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America’s Hidden ‘Constitution-Free Zones’

The Crime Report

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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