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Arizona Supreme Court determines abortion law from 1864 is enforceable

JURIST

Arizona’s Supreme Court found on Tuesday that a 159-year-old law banning abortion is enforceable following the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights case Roe v Wade, sending a 52-year-old case back to trial court. Wade , at which point the state statute was deemed unconstitutional and enforcement of it was enjoined.

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New Wrinkle in Pre-1972 Sound Recording Cases – Georgia Supreme Court Holds that iHeart Streaming Does Not Violate State Criminal Statute

Broadcast Law Blog

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

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The Markel Murder: Donna Adelson Arrested at Miami International Airport

JonathanTurley

For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. Adelson and Markel married in 2006 when she was a third-year law student at the University of Miami and he was a criminal law professor at FSU.

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A Surge of Anti-Trans Laws Ignore Criminology

The Crime Report

That law is not just another, so-called “bathroom bill”—legislation intended to prevent transgender people from using restrooms that align with their gender identity; it also reaches “ locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers.” Kansas lawmakers recently overrode their governor’s veto so they could enact S.B.

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Unanimous ruling on crack-cocaine disparity is heavy on text, light on history

SCOTUSBlog

As recounted earlier , in 2008, Tarahrick Terry, then in his early 20s, was arrested in Florida for carrying just under 4 grams of crack cocaine. The crack-cocaine disparity had largely come to symbolize an ineffective and counter-productive war on drugs and a racist criminal law system. He was charged under 21 U.S.C. §

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Can Biden Resurrect the Justice Department ‘Slush Fund’?

The Crime Report

According to a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, that would violate the Constitution and several Acts of Congress. Eventually, the Justice Department’s settlement practice faced media, academic and congressional criticism on the ground that it violated federal statutory law and the Constitution.

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Justices take up bump stock dispute

SCOTUSBlog

Cargill , the justices will decide whether a “bump stock” – an attachment that transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic, assault-style weapon – is a “machinegun,” which is generally prohibited under federal law. Two federal courts of appeals struck down the regulation. This definition, the U.S. In National Rifle Association v.

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