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Kansas Supreme Court finds no fundamental right to vote in state constitution

JURIST

The Kansas Supreme Court held Friday that there is no fundamental right to vote in the state’s constitution in a complex ruling related three 2021 election laws concerning false representation of election officials, verification of advance ballots and limitations on their collection.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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False Confessions: Protecting the Vulnerable

The Crime Report

Our justice system is supposed to protect such people by assigning them a “legal guardian” —a surrogate decision-maker who acts under the authority of the probate court or of state laws governing guardianships. When the ward is an adult, authorities are required to notify the guardian that an interrogation is about to take place.

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Win More Clients by Using Document Automation Differently

LawSites

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. William Peacock writes about law and technology for the Rally blog.

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Georgetown Professor Under Fire For Reading The “N-Word” In A Class On Free Speech and Racism

JonathanTurley

We have been discussing professors who have been investigated or sanctioned for the use of the “n-word” in classes or tests at Duquesne , John Marshall , Augsberg , Chicago , DePaul , Princeton , Kansas , and other schools. Political Systems” class, and “did not censor the racial epithet.”

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Federal appeals court upholds Texas law prohibiting second trimester abortion method

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday overturned a panel decision and upheld Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which seeks to prohibit a specific type of dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion method.

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D.C. Circuit Sides with Manufacturers in Latest 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act does not prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing conditions on the distribution of discounted drugs to covered entities in the program. By Sophia R. Gaulkin & Alan M.