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Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for minors

JURIST

The court did not find either situation to be the case because “[t]he statute does not prevent medical providers from treating children with gender dysphoria with [alternative treatments], nor does it prohibit them from providing those medical procedures to adults.”

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Acquitted-conduct sentencing returns

SCOTUSBlog

The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. South Carolina to present evidence of her good behavior in prison.

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Andy Warhol’s artwork, Arizona’s capital sentencing, and more on armed career criminals

SCOTUSBlog

South Carolina that in cases where a capital defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, due process entitles the defendant to inform the jury that he will be ineligible for parole if not sentenced to death. Arizona applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona.

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