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Missouri Supreme Court upholds congressional maps over citizen concerns

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The Missouri Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision on Wednesday, which found that the Senate congressional map did not violate the state’s constitution. ” The Missouri Constitution lays out the procedure for creating House and Senate districts. The court disagreed and upheld the map.

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Federal appeals court blocks Missouri abortion restrictions

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court decision to block enforcement of a Missouri law that would place tight restrictions on access to abortion. The first bans abortion after eight weeks, with an exception in the case of a medical emergency but not in cases of rape or incest.

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Court green-lights execution of Missouri man who presented evidence of racist prosecutor

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Share For the second time in less than a week, the Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Kevin Johnson, paving the way for Missouri to carry out his lethal injection on Tuesday night. Johnson, who is Black, came to the Supreme Court on Nov. Supreme Court from reviewing it.

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Minnesota court denies request to require statewide public school mask mandate

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Parents Advocating for Safe Schools (PASS), an association of Minnesota parents, filed suit against the state of Minnesota and Governor Timothy Walz, asking the court to order Walz to impose a statewide mask requirement for all public schools. Pass also asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order compelling Walz to require masks.

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False Confessions: Protecting the Vulnerable

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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. The lack of training is particularly telling in Missouri. Abuse of Power. in continuing education courses.

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United States: No Early Dismissal In Post-TCPA Facebook Case - Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

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Recently, a Missouri federal court analyzed how the United States Supreme Court decision in Facebook v. Duguid ("Facebook") interprets the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA").

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In rejecting a prisoner’s post-conviction claim, court plants seeds for narrowing habeas relief

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Davenport , the Supreme Court held on Thursday that a federal court cannot grant habeas relief to a convicted state prisoner whose constitutional rights were violated at trial unless that prisoner satisfies both the judicially-created Brecht v. The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Share In Brown v. In Brecht v.

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