JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Under the Supreme Court decision Allen v. The rights groups say that the North Carolina legislature did not include these criteria when redistricting the state. The action against North Carolina is not the only ongoing voting rights litigation in the country.

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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. Harper , and the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2025

South Carolina is set to carry out the first execution by firing squad in 15 years. The US Supreme Court denies Friday the emergency petition to stay clears the way for the state to carry out the death penalty. The post South Carolina to carry out first firing squad execution in 15 years appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2024

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill Thursday permitting concealed and open carry for firearms throughout the state. 16 other states currently allow legal carry through reciprocity agreements with South Carolina without any other restrictions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ).

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Tuesday introduced the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act. The proposed legislation follows the US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. If enacted, the act would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy at the federal level.

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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2021

A federal district court judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat abortion act. Wade is overturned, either through a Supreme Court decision or a Constitutional amendment. We are Article III constitutional courts.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

“South Carolina judge is at the center of a political whirlwind around Biden’s Supreme Court decision”: Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak, and Phil Mattingly of CNN have this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolinas governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid. A decision is expected by summer.

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ABA Journal

JULY 25, 2022

Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v.… Technology companies could face a “disparate patchwork” of laws regulating abortion information in the aftermath of the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2023

The report first provides a comprehensive display of how states have changed their abortion policies since June 2022 when the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. The report comes as abortion bans are being struck down in many states, including Nebraska , North Carolina , and South Carolina. Wade precedent.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

A handful of states — Alabama, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to the advocacy group MAP — make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to youths.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In their petition, the legislators argue that courts are split as to whether an official seeking to intervene in a case under a state law must prove that the state’s interest is not adequately represented. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 30, 2023

Supreme Court sided with John Montenegro Cruz, a death row inmate in Arizona. According to a 5-4 majority, Arizona erred in refusing to apply the Court’s precedent set forth in Simmons v. South Carolina , 512 U.S. However, according to the majority, the case is an exception under Bouie v. City of Columbia , 378 U.S.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The City of Charleston filed an action in the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas against fossil fuel companies asserting that they are responsible for “devastating adverse” climate change impacts on Charleston and its residents. Office of the Prime Minister (Nepal Supreme Court). Shrestha v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. Here is a full list of the cases set for argument during the March argument session: Louisiana v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts. Ian Ward, Politico) Voting Rights Claims Plunge in Wake of Supreme Court Decision (Diana Dombrowski, Alex Ebert, Kimberly Robinson, Jon Meltzer, K. 13 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. Edwards and Planned Parenthood went to federal court in South Carolina. The Supreme Court, it says, has made clear that this is a stringent test.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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