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Word of the Month for August 2019: Stare Decisis

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Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. People go to one court, don't get what they want so they go to another court asking for, basically, the same thing. In School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp , 374 U.S. Schempp , 374 U.S.

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Conflict of Laws and Diversity of Opinions—A View of The Nigerian Jurisdiction

Conflict of Laws

The Supreme Court of Nigeria and the Judicature The Nigerian Supreme Court is necessary for the legal system’s stability, coherence, and sustainable evolution. [2] The Supreme Court of Nigeria and the Judicature The Nigerian Supreme Court is necessary for the legal system’s stability, coherence, and sustainable evolution. [2]

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Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion

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Since the decision of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey in 1992, the hallmark of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence has been an effort to take the abortion issue seriously. At the same time, the court has spoken about women’s liberty, equal citizenship, and dignity. Wade to the Present.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.

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Justice Breyer: A formidable defender of reproductive rights

SCOTUSBlog

Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court at the end of this term will mark the end of an era. Both he and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who untimely passed early in the 2020-21 term — shared similar ideological perspectives, approaches to judicial review, and paths to the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania.

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Back to the Bullpen: Minor League Teams Settle with MLB Over Latest Challenge to Baseball’s Historic Antitrust Exemption

Fordham Law News

4] However, on November 2, 2023, it was announced that Major League Baseball had settled all three lawsuits with the minor league teams, avoiding the possible Supreme Court challenge, and sending the question of the validity of its long-held antitrust exemption back to the bullpen. [5] New York Yankees, Inc., National Basketball Assn.

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