SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. On appeal, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Bassett’s request for a hearing and dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

In Arizona, the legislatures enacted eight new laws, including broad record clearing, as well as two new laws that improved occupational licensing opportunities and a judicial “second chance” certificate.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. Two and a half months into bail reform crime in New York City had gone up 20 percent.”. That is unjust in so many ways.”. percent and 25.1

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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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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. It is akin to New Jersey Democrat Sen. It is the ultimate jury instruction not from the court but from the community.

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