The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Simmons was declared innocent and released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers. Simmons has maintained his innocence, saying he was in Louisiana at the time of the 1974 slaying of Carolyn Sue Rogers inside an Edmond liquor store.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lawyers objected but the judge let the testimony in. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. People like Faria, defense lawyers and sometimes even the judges are blindsided. “I

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But in a recent podcast interview with a pair of east county campaign supporters, Knox described her opposition to new state laws and court rulings that provide greater leniency for juvenile offenders, including her concerns that California now offers a chance to teens sentenced to life without parole. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

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. Some were lawyers. All shaped the court in their own ways. His two-part series, This Honorable Court , aired on PBS in 1988. Some were not.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Robinson , in which Louisiana had asked the justices to review a ruling by a federal district court that would have required the state’s legislature to draw a new congressional map that included a second majority-Black district. The case had been on hold for nearly a year, waiting for the court to issue its ruling in Allen v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S. In an unpublished decision, the D.C.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2025

” The respondents, which include President Donald Trump and other federal officials, moved to dismiss Khalil’s petition or transfer it to Louisiana where Khalil was taken and has been detained. The government relied on the district-of-confinement and immediate-custodian rules to support its position.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Four environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. They further contend that the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The 50-year-old Sauer has many of the credentials associated with others who have served as the country’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for Judge J. The Supreme Court declined to take up his petition for review. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. States Moved for Preliminary Injunction in Social Cost of Carbon Lawsuit in Louisiana. Louisiana v. Minister of Environment and Others (South Africa High Court).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. residents are not entitled to representation in the House because they do not live in a “state”; the Supreme Court on Monday allowed that ruling to stand. The other cases in which the justices denied review included: Louisiana v. The justices sent Biden v.

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