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Navigating the waters of the new term

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Josh Gerstein of Politico, with his colleague Alexander Ward, broke the story of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson asks her first question barely 10 minutes into the argument, and she presses the lawyer for the Sackett family, Damien Schiff, with follow-ups. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That was normal.”.

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. 30, 1942 – Oct.

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Supreme Court set to hear arguments in two challenges to Texas law that bans most abortions

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The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. Four lawyers will argue on Monday. The law is largely the brainchild of Mitchell , a lawyer who served as a law clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia and as the solicitor general of Texas.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, that a majority of the court was ready and willing to roll back abortion rights. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court said the petitioner’s comments on the draft and final EIRs concerning the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions were not sufficient to exhaust administrative remedies. Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.