JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). In NAACP v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

Although the decision did not involve cash payments to college athletes, it may pave the way for a future Supreme Court ruling on whether college athletes should be able to earn money for playing sports – either directly from their universities or through lucrative endorsement deals. Monday’s decision in NCAA v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

However, in 1908’s Ex parte Young , the Supreme Court allowed suits against state officials, in lieu of states themselves, for violations of federal law. After New Jersey passed legislation in 2018 to withdraw from the compact, the waterfront commission sued the New Jersey governor to prevent him from enforcing the law.

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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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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2021

NOVJM argued the law would “deny justice” by diminishing the seriousness of violent crime and re-traumatize victims who participate in parole hearings. NOVJM President Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins said she founded the organization after her sister and brother-in-law, along with their baby, were murdered by someone under the age of 18.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though California’s constitution prohibited slavery, the Legislature passed and the court upheld a law requiring that people enslaved in other states be returned to their enslavers. The court ordered an enslaved person — Archy Lee — returned to his enslaver, a Mississippi citizen. Following the U.S.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

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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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2022

An abortion-inducing drug’s manufacturer has dropped its lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s restrictions on the provision and use of the drug, in connection with “the changed national landscape” in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Mississippi Today said that Sen. GenBioPro Inc.,

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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

AUGUST 10, 2023

“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”: Margaret Baker of The Biloxi Sun Herald has this report. Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press reports that “ Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case.”

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2024

” CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi Ashley Coffield disagreed , however, stating the video was not medically accurate and “has not been endorsed by any leading unbiased medical organization.” ” Since the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

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. Mississippi Deputy Solicitor General Krissy Nobile, Jones v. Mississippi (Nov. On the other end of the formality spectrum, Ramzi Kassem argued in October in Tanzin v.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2022

He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe. The court’s three liberals, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, filed a joint dissent.

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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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JUNE 21, 2022

The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v. The Mississippi case deals with a challenge to a law that banned abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy or later, the kind of state legislation rejected by the justices in Case y. Jackson Women’s Health Organization within weeks.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 25, 2022

Marimow have a front page article headlined “ Supreme Court ruling leaves states free to outlaw abortion; The justices voted 6 to 3 to uphold a restrictive Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his conservative colleagues for taking the additional step of overturning Roe v. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Casey in 1992, the hallmark of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence has been an effort to take the abortion issue seriously. In some ways, the court’s inaction can tell us only so much about the fate of Roe 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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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. Mississippi v. A new case on public funding and religious education. Gallardo v.

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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

While the media and politicians were decrying the recent Texas abortion law and misrepresenting the Court’s order in that case , the real and immediate threat to Roe v. Dobbs involves a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday in Dobbs v. The decision comes in a case involving a Mississippi law banning all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—the only abortion provider in the state— challenged the law. The post US Supreme Court overturns landmark Roe v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Friday invalidated a Mississippi election law that allowed mail-in and absentee election ballots as long as they were sent on or before Election Day. The ruling overturned the lower court’s decision that upheld the law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2023

GenBioPrio filed a similar challenge against Mississippi in October 2020 but dropped the lawsuit after the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no federal constitutional right to abortion. Additionally, the act’s definition of abortion includes the use of abortifacients.

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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

Elenis , is a challenge by a Colorado website designer to a state law that bars businesses that are open to the public from discriminating against gay people or announcing their intent to do so. The designer, Lorie Smith, argues that subjecting her to the law would violate her right to free speech. When the U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2022

Mississippi just strengthened its animal rights laws. NY's Supreme Court rules cops can't use chokeholds again. Kamala Harris gives Oklahoma's abortion law anything but the OK. [ Judge continues ban on a Kentucky law that would prohibit abortion. [ appeared first on Above the Law. Ars Technica ].

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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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the call by the Biden White House and many in the media to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in light of the recent decision of the Supreme Court not to enjoin the new abortion law in Texas. The surprise over the Supreme Court’s procedural decision is itself surprising.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 21, 2021

On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Caniglia v. Although the district court ruled that the government must have reasonable suspicion that a device contains digital contraband because of the privacy concerns of electronic searches, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2025

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution generally permits states to strip people convicted of felonies of their right to vote. Section 241 of Mississippis constitution is no exception.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 25, 2024

“Mississippi’s Absentee Ballot Measure Violates Federal Law, Appeals Court Rules; The law requires officials to count absentee ballots received by mail up to five days after Election Day; It appears unlikely that the ruling will affect the current election”: Isabelle Taft of The New York Times has this report.

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