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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

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Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Kentucky’s big bet and Monsanto’s Roundup warnings

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Kentucky can recover $870 million from an online poker platform to recoup Kentuckians’ losses and whether federal approval of Roundup can protect Monsanto from violations under California law. Both the district court and the U.S.

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Christian school renews effort to expand religious freedom over employment

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, at what stage of litigation the ministerial exception should come into play. Both a federal district court and the U.S.

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A courtroom prop, a song, and another surprise

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Share Several police officers outside the Supreme Court building have donned masks as haze from Canadian wildfires has become more noticeable in Washington this morning. As I wrote earlier this week , the descendants of plaintiffs in a companion case from South Carolina believe that Brown should be renamed Briggs v.

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Pondering the aftermath of a landmark ruling in felon-in-possession cases

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Share On June 21, 2019, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Rehaif v. United States , holding that a conviction under the federal statute penalizing felons in possession of a firearm requires not only the defendant’s knowledge that he possessed a gun, but also that he knew he had the legal status of a convicted felon.

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US Supreme Court to rule on South Carolina bid to defund abortion service provider

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday for South Carolina to remove Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid coverage since it performs abortions. The petitioners, South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, raised several issues of interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act.

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South Carolina judge finds use of firing squad, electric chair cruel and unusual

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South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an electric chair for executions was unconstitutional. After the convictions, South Carolina passed Bill 200 , which changed the default method of execution in the state to electrocution.

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