The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed rolling back his state’s raise the age law that, in 2017, had moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of New York’s violent Rikers Island jails and into its more rehabilitative family court. And in July, Louisiana Gov. We have seen this movie before.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is back. On Monday, the court granted nine petitions from the enormous number that built up over the summer. A short explanation of relists is available here. First up is Buffington v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made substantial progress at last week’s conference to reduce the accumulation of relisted cases. But the court denied review without recorded dissent to two-time relist Alaska v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit affirmed. Louisiana , 21-993. New Relist.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Supreme Court. The last 15 years of decision-making has convinced a majority of the American public that political ideology more often than not has subverted the Rule of Law in the high court. That reality is evidenced by the way the Court has dealt with juvenile justice cases since 2005.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Louisiana , the justices ruled that Miller also applied retroactively – that is, to anyone sentenced before 2012. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. In Bassett v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. USERRA allows individuals to sue non-compliant employers in either state or federal court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Abitron argued that the Lanham Act should not apply to its foreign sales. A short explanation of relists is available here. There are four newly relisted cases this week.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

My life in that underworld still widely unknown to many, began when I met an extraordinary man in the Death House at Angola, a Louisiana slave plantation turned into a prison in 1880. The Louisiana Pardon Board chairman and the prison official were convicted. Under Louisiana law, his crime was manslaughter.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. Justice Kavanaugh writes, quoting Linda R.S. :

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the scope of the First Amendment — specifically, whether a law forbidding clandestine recordings is overbroad and whether a state may require individuals to carry identification cards labeled “SEX OFFENDER.” In Louisiana v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court cleared out quite a bit of its backlog of relisted cases at last week’s conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. 23 conference and the April 12 conference — that’s six conferences — the Supreme Court relisted just one new case. This week, the court also began clearing out some relists that have been hanging around for a while.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. As the case comes to the Supreme Court, Medrano contended that the use of his statements violated his rights under Miranda v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Louisiana’s Republican controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower legislators to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can tried as adults. However, earlier this year, the court already sent the four teenagers to adult prisons under charge of murder.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But in a recent podcast interview with a pair of east county campaign supporters, Knox described her opposition to new state laws and court rulings that provide greater leniency for juvenile offenders, including her concerns that California now offers a chance to teens sentenced to life without parole. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Supreme Court Weighs Reviving Biden Immigration Guidelines; The justices wrestled with questions about states’ standing to sue, whether the guidelines were lawful and the limits of judicial power over immigration”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Supreme Court mulls Biden immigration enforcement shift.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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