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Biden Again Summons His “Leading Legal Constitutional Scholars” to Support an Absurd Constitutional Claim

JonathanTurley

By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law. However, in 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.) It failed to do so.

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Arizona court rules abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy unconstitutional

JURIST

Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona ruled Wednesday that Arizona’s abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional and permanently enjoined Arizona employees from enforcing the abortion ban. They argued that there is no legal remedy to address these harms.

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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

LawSites

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. as well as president of the company that created Decisis, Legal InQuery Solutions. I now have more information on the launch of the service, based on my interview yesterday with Jeffrey S.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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Why the Supreme Court—and the Justice System—Need Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Crime Report

When the Circuit Court judge in the restraining order case ruled against me, offering no reasons for doing so, I wanted to give up; but Benjamin and Edinger did not. Eventually, we won a resounding victory in the Florida appeals court on First Amendment grounds. I was blessed to have had stellar legal representation.

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Tarasoff Revisited: Nebraska Court Rejects Liability Of Psychiatrist After Patient Murders Girlfriend

JonathanTurley

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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Doubts About Lethal Injection Drugs Reignite Capital Punishment Debate

The Crime Report

Supreme Court has backed the finding against the lethal injection technique as “cruel and unusual punishment,” which has been in use among states since 1977, said the the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a nonprofit advocacy group.