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New Mexico Reformers Lose Bid to End Juvenile Life Sentences

The Crime Report

The failure of a New Mexico bill that would have prohibited life sentences and mandated earlier probation eligibility for juveniles has exposed deep rifts between those seeking judicial reform and victim advocates in the state. Wilson said the New Mexico Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Youth will continue to press lawmakers.

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How a veteran sketch artist offers a peek into oral arguments in the work-from-home era

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The court now allows live-audio streaming of its arguments — a step forward in transparency and access. Unlike when the court is open, he could not observe and draw the lawyers arguing cases in real time. 10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I New Mexico (Oct. Lien changed that.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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As Compliance Date for Methane Waste Rule Nears, California Federal Court Ruled That BLM Could Not Postpone Compliance, Oil and Gas Trade Groups Again Asked Wyoming Federal Court for Preliminary Injunction. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility filed a complaint in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging BLM’s approval of 2,067 oil and gas leases covering almost two million acres of public lands across five states—Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

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Colorado G.O.P. asks justices to review Trump ballot eligibility

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Share Lawyers for Colorado’s Republican Party came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to overturn a ruling by that state’s highest court that would leave former President Donald Trump off Colorado’s primary ballot in 2024 because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. And in Sept.

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Supreme Court to decide whether insurrection provision keeps Trump off ballot

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2022, a court in New Mexico ruled that Couy Griffin could not serve as a county commissioner because he had participated in the Jan. The case now before the Supreme Court was the first one to hold that Trump was disqualified from appearing on the ballot in 2024. In a ruling on Dec. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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She grew up on the family’s Lazy B Ranch, which sat astride the border between Arizona and New Mexico and occupied about 250 square miles – almost four times the size of Washington, D.C. Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford.

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