SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Returning Relists 74 Pinehurst LLC v. Maryland and Napue v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

This push has put police officers at odds with Republican lawmakers who usually trumpet support for law enforcement. In states like Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana, many officers are worried. executive director of the Louisiana Chiefs of Police Association says, “We feel it was just another opportunity to get our officers hurt.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the scope of the First Amendment — specifically, whether a law forbidding clandestine recordings is overbroad and whether a state may require individuals to carry identification cards labeled “SEX OFFENDER.” In Louisiana v.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Idaho Wednesday to prevent the enforcement of its law criminalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors. Idaho Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 71 into law in April. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2024.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her. Bonin failed to do this in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Judge Priscilla Richman wrote separately to say that although “there is undeniably a split among circuit courts” on this issue, Dubin’s actions came within the statute’s literal prohibition against “us[ing], without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person.”. Louisiana , 21-993. relisted after the Oct. Khorrami v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

(The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). Similarly, Katz and PennEast include detailed histories of English and early American law on bankruptcy or eminent domain.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Fitisemanu and the Tulis argue that the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, embraced the founding-era common-law understanding of birthright citizenship. Louisiana , 21-993. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has deviated from that by holding that enablement is a question of law that courts review without deference. Louisiana , 21-993. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. 28 conference).

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. And, once again, the views expressed by the dissenting justices, led by Justices Clarence Thomas and Justice Scalia, could be read as political ideology more so than the rule of law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court overruled precedent from the 1970s upholding nonunanimous verdicts in criminal cases. Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Louisiana , 21-993. Two years ago in Ramos v. 28 conference).

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Over the next four years, the troubled child (as he was under Texas law ) repeatedly self-injured himself, including more than 50 times trying to take his own life. The last 15 years of decision-making has convinced a majority of the American public that political ideology more often than not has subverted the Rule of Law in the high court.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

My life in that underworld still widely unknown to many, began when I met an extraordinary man in the Death House at Angola, a Louisiana slave plantation turned into a prison in 1880. The Louisiana Pardon Board chairman and the prison official were convicted. Under Louisiana law, his crime was manslaughter.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony. citizens and lawful permanent residents (known casually as “green-card holders”) can apply for a visa for their immediate relatives. Our last new relist is Bouarfa v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

She did not return calls to The Imprint , but her campaign pledges include protecting victims’ rights, enforcing the law and holding offenders accountable. In 1960, she experienced perhaps her most formative memory: watching on television as 6-year-old Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, Louisiana, flanked by white U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Amant, Louisiana. That is the majority rule among the federal courts of appeals. The court may soon decide to answer that question.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision. Below is an updating guide to states with now-active legislation or trigger laws banning or criminalizing abortion. Law : Alabama HB314 2019. The pushback was just as swift.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

A Louisiana grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor for enabling the termination of a minor’s pregnancy by prescribing an abortion bill. I have said it before and I will say it again: We will hold individuals accountable for breaking the law.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Prosecutors conceded that Medrano was not actually at the scene of the crime. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Supreme Court Weighs Reviving Biden Immigration Guidelines; The justices wrestled with questions about states’ standing to sue, whether the guidelines were lawful and the limits of judicial power over immigration”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. .”

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