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Major abortion case set for argument on Dec. 1

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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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Texas abortion ban goes into effect after justices fail to act

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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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Ruling that nursing home arbitration agreement was invalid reversed.

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34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. While the Court pointed out that neither party had suggested that the power of attorney for health care in this case failed to comply with Tennessee law, it did conclude that Tenn. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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“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”

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“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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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

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Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. 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.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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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 lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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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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