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Post-Roe States Advised to Fight Abortion like Organized Crime

The Crime Report

Supreme Court is set to rule this summer to either maintain the 14th Amendment right to privacy protections for abortion established by Roe v. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.

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“Milestones for African Americans in the California Judicial Branch” has a number of Supreme Court connections

At the Lectern

From the news release by Karen Datangel: “This February, California courts and the Judicial Council of California join the nation in recognizing Black History Month. Some of them relate to California’s Supreme Court: In re Perkins (1852) 2 Cal. Lee later got his freedom from a federal court ruling.

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Ruling that nursing home arbitration agreement was invalid reversed.

Day on Torts

The trial court ultimately ruled that the brother was incompetent and lacked capacity to sign the power of attorney for health care, that the power of attorney for health care was therefore invalid, and that the arbitration agreement was accordingly unenforceable. In Welch v. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”

HowAppealing

“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”: Margaret Baker of The Biloxi Sun Herald has this report. Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press reports that “ Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case.”

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”

HowAppealing

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G. .”

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Petitions of the week: Four petitions that test the limits on lawsuits against the government

SCOTUSBlog

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. 1982), the Supreme Court addressed a boycott of white-owned businesses in Mississippi. District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled for Martin on the core constitutional challenge. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb.