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North Carolina’s voter-ID lawsuit, racial bias in juries and a veteran’s disability claim

SCOTUSBlog

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Both the district court and the U.S. The en banc U.S.

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The long conference’s relists

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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Why the ‘Machinery of Death’ Keeps Running

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They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. The court issued a cryptic and unusual “per curiam” decision – one which is a given in the name of the court rather than any specific judges. What they got instead was something less.

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North Carolina appeals court rules same-sex partners eligible for domestic violence protections

JURIST

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled Thursday that people who are or have been in a dating relationship with a same-sex partner are equally protected against domestic violence as persons in opposite-sex relationships placed in a similar situation. While relying on the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v.

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The rise of certiorari before judgment

SCOTUSBlog

University of North Carolina. Unlike the Harvard University case , in which the same petitioner, Students for Fair Admissions, is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the U.S. Less well noticed was a curious procedural feature of the second case, Students for Fair Admissions v.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Trump’s steel tariffs, UNC affirmative action, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

SCOTUSBlog

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, challenges to President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Turkish steel, the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. University of North Carolina.