JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The court held that the plaintiffs in the case had failed to show standing to maintain a case for a preliminary injunction.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Share Confirming expectations, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously denied Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater. For this state-level version of a trespass, Mississippi sought over $600 million in damages. As the court confirmed last year in Florida v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, allowed the enforcement of an Arizona election law requiring prospective voters to provide “satisfactory evidence of citizenship” upon registering to vote. The Supreme Court’s order on Thursday vacated this decision and allowed the provision to go into effect.

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Above The Law

MAY 23, 2023

The post Judge Prevents Mississippi From Creating White-Elected Courts For Black Counties… For Now appeared first on Above the Law. Shouts out to Henry Wingate.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by Johnson & Johnson seeking to halt lawsuits alleging that the company failed to warn consumers of the dangers posed by talcum powder in their products. Because the FDA did not require a warning label, Johnson & Johnson argues that Mississippi is barred from suing the company.

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JURIST

JANUARY 2, 2024

A federal judge ruled Sunday that Mississippi officials can create the planned state-run court in Jackson, the state capital, where the majority of residents are Black, despite objections from the NAACP. ” The original lawsuit accuses Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and other state officials of unfairly singling out Jackson.

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JURIST

JULY 19, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reaffirmed Thursday that a section of the Mississippi Constitution that banned felons from voting for life did not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution and was thereby constitutional. In a landmark US Supreme Court case from the 1970s, Richarson v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 25, 2022

“Court: Mississippi can continue blocking felons from voting.” ” And Ashton Pittman of Mississippi Free Press has a report headlined “ ‘A Wrong Never Righted’: Court Upholds Mississippi’s 1890 Jim Crow Voting Law.” Graves, Jr.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Mississippi can continue to bar more than 10 percent of its citizens from voting, maintaining a Jim Crow-era provision that bars Mississippians convicted of felonies from taking part in elections, reports the Daily Journal.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The judges who preside over these courtrooms are similar to justices of the peace in other states and are not required to have a law degree. Some of those courts violate state rules by failing to require law enforcement to return search warrants and related documents.

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled on Friday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adequately evaluated emission impacts when it approved a gas pipeline expansion in Pennsylvania and New York, allowing the project to move forward.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 12, 2021

Madison, Mississippi Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler is challenging Initiative 65 in court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

“Mississippi District Attorney Doug Evans Sued for Engineering the Wrongful Prosecution of Curtis Flowers; The landmark lawsuit was brought on behalf of Flowers by the Mississippi Center for Justice and the Hogan Lovells law firm”: The Mississippi Center for Justice issued this news release yesterday.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The post I Did Not Have Mississippi Creating Whites-Only Courts On My Black History Month Bingo Card appeared first on Above the Law. You don't understand — this isn't blatant racism and segregation, it's tradition and heritage.'

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The post Mississippi Proves Civil Rights Lawyer’s Point With Sham Arrest And Trial appeared first on Above the Law. I look forward to the judge's resignation.

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LegalReader

MAY 6, 2022

There’s no point in having the children express their wish to live with you as Mississippi courts do not have to take their will into consideration.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 12, 2024

“Fifth Circuit Judge Moving States, But No Plans to Retire; Leslie Southwick moving chambers from Mississippi to Texas; No circuit approval needed to change court locations”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

It's a simple principle of evidence law: Any testimony must be supported by an evidentiary basis. When a witness for the prosecution shoots from the hip with testimony untethered to any evidentiary basis, there's error. When that error inflames the.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Mississippi House of Representatives has passed a bill that will form a court system of unelected judges and prosecutors to preside over part of the majority-Black city of Jackson, the Capitol Complex Improvement District, Kiara Alfonseca reports for ABC News.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 23, 2024

“Conservative Appeals Judges Question Felon Voting Ban Claims; Mississippi prohibits certain felons from ever voting again; En banc Fifth Circuit hears claim that ban cruel and unusual”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Supreme Court to dismiss lawsuit claiming Jim Crow laws harm public education”: Bobby Harrison of Mississippi Today has this report. “Fitch to ask U.S.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The former director of advocacy at the Mississippi College School of Law claims in a recent federal court filing she was constructively terminated from the…

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Share Mississippi v. Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v.

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HowAppealing

MAY 19, 2022

“A federal appeals court says the S.E.C.’s Jody Godoy of Reuters reports that “ SEC in-house judges violate right to jury trial, appeals court rules.” ” Jennifer Bennett of Bloomberg Law reports that “ SEC In-House Hearing Violates Right to Jury, Fifth Cir.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The post Not Really Sure How Mississippi’s Public Defender Program Has Worked The Last Two Decades appeared first on Above the Law. It's like the biggest rule breaker is the government or something.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2024

Garland also expressed hope that the release of the investigation’s findings would lead toward progress in improving relations between marginalized communities and law enforcement as well as provide a launch pad for institutional reform. Arizona is no stranger to the use of questionable police tactics.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Share The first oral argument of the Supreme Court’s new term, Mississippi v. Tennessee , dealt with Mississippi’s claim that Memphis, Tennessee, is stealing Mississippi’s groundwater. Coghlan argued that the groundwater extraction created a cone of depression that physically entered into Mississippi.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

EDT, the American Bar Association will host a webinar reviewing major criminal law cases of the current term (including Van Buren v. Mississippi , and Edwards v. The post ABA’s annual Supreme Court review: Criminal cases appeared first on SCOTUSblog. United States , Jones v. The panel, moderated by Rory Little of U.C.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding. In Miller v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Scholars have argued that the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, has applied a color-blind analysis to the law, churning out opinions that privilege white people, reinforce police power, and fortify carceral systems. While the opinions the court delivered in Buck v. Mississippi , and Ramos v.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2024

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Thursday mostly upheld a lower court’s decision that prevents the rejection of absentee ballots with address variations for upcoming elections. Under Wisconsin law, absentee ballots require completion in the presence of a witness, who would then sign it and provide their address.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“Domestic Abusers Have Gun Rights Too, US Appeals Court Rules; Court vacates conviction of Texas man tied to five shootings; Ruling is latest fallout from US Supreme Court landmark ruling”: Erik Larson of Bloomberg News has this report. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 5, 2023

A Mississippi inmate’s habeas appeal is doomed because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions remarking that federal courts have discretion to deny relief as “law and…

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

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