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JANUARY 21, 2025

As a legal professional, timing is everythingespecially when it comes to meeting critical court deadlines. Calendar of 2025 state and local court holidays January Robert E. 6(a)(6) ), Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (See Fed. So when is your brief due?

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

.’ ” The release includes a timeline with reviews of 18 significant moments in the State’s legal history regarding African-Americans. Some of them relate to California’s Supreme Court: In re Perkins (1852) 2 Cal. Lee later got his freedom from a federal court ruling. Following the U.S. ” (9 Cal.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Perhaps they also stand as a microcosm of the diversity of work-from-home environments in which so many members of the legal community have found themselves this year. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I And he’s got a box of markers and Black’s Law Dictionary there.”. Mississippi (Nov.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

The bill explains, however, that individuals with “intersex conditions” or “differences in sex development” must be accommodated in compliance with state and federal law. Alabama is one of 23 states , including Louisiana and Texas , that have enacted laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2022

A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Share The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear argument on Dec. 1 in a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. 1 argument date in the Mississippi case was part of the Supreme Court’s release of its December argument calendar. The case, Dobbs v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v. Gallardo v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2021

Legal challenges have argued that such lengthy sentences handed down to young people amount to de facto life-without-parole terms. NOVJM argued the law would “deny justice” by diminishing the seriousness of violent crime and re-traumatize victims who participate in parole hearings. The ruling, in Jones v. Read more here.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

Plaintiff also testified that he printed the power of attorney form online, and that anytime he presented the document, he stated that he was not sure of its legality. 34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. § Code Ann. §

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for a major ruling next year on abortion – one that could upend the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. Casey , in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus becomes viable. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit a long-simmering tension between legal protections for LGBTQ people and the rights of business owners who oppose same-sex marriage. The designer, Lorie Smith, argues that subjecting her to the law would violate her right to free speech. The case, 303 Creative v. When the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By failing to respond to a plea for them to intervene, the justices allowed a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions to go into effect early Wednesday morning. The abortion providers challenging the law say that it will bar at least 85% of abortions in the state and will likely cause many clinics to close.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. The 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in Brown v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Texas women are exempt from criminal charges under SB8, the state’s highly restrictive new anti-abortion law. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

That changed this week, with announcements from different parts of the federal bureaucracy aimed at supporting and protecting reproductive health in the new landscape created by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. For legal authority, HHS is relying on the ??1986

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Wade just a few years out of law school. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. All shaped the court in their own ways.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , David Beckwith published the original Supreme Court abortion leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. That is earlier than previously allowed by the court, but the United States is one of only seven among the world’s 198 countries to allow abortions after 20 weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. Agency deference.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Share If the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term had a soundtrack, it might be “With or Without You,” the 1987 anthem by the Irish rock group U2. The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is not exactly the context that counsel would want when seeking to hold CNN liable for defamatory comments in a difficult legal action. The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06 As a public figure, he is subject to the standard created in New York Times v. Butts (1967).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. and non-U.S. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Twenty-one states have laws in place that would ban all or nearly all abortions if Roe and Casey fell. And even if the court does not formally overturn Roe and Casey , a decision weakening those precedents would permit new abortion restrictions, perhaps including bans on some early-stage abortions. Mississippi’s arguments.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Share Lawyers for the state of Texas urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortions in place. But if the court opts to review the merits of the law on an expedited basis, Texas continued, it should use the case as an opportunity to overrule the court’s landmark decisions in Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. That does not mean the court will do so, but it could substantially reduce Roe’s hold over states.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Breyer’s penchant for pragmatism was on full display in his 2014 opinion for the court in National Labor Relations Board v.

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