SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gun possession and immigration status. United States , Melvyn Gear, an Australian citizen who resides in Hawaii on an H-1B visa, asks the justices to decide whether Section 922(g)(5)(B) also requires proof of knowledge of collateral law. 18 U.S.C. § These and other petitions of the week are below: Ham v. Williams v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In addition to more intense storms, the municipalities allege other physical climate change impacts, including coral reef degradation and massive algal blooms, as well as social, educational, and economic losses, including increased immigration from the municipalities and damages to the agricultural industry.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

Advocates also say decriminalization will reduce the stigma that surrounds people involved in sex trafficking, most of whom are poor women and girls, immigrants and LGBTQ people. . Hawaii enacted a law last week that removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking and distinguishes sex buyers from people selling sex.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2022

Before I became a law student, I was tried and convicted by white folks who looked strikingly like the ones surrounding the Black woman in my mind’s eye. Mazie Hirono , a Democrat from Hawaii. As the officer read the baby its Miranda rights, the white people with the signs were not bothered in the least. Jonathan H.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Disclosure: My law firm, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, is among the counsel to the respondent in the Baltimore case. Hawaii Land Use Commission , 20-54 , bought a thousand-acre tract of land in Hawaii on which it planned to build hundreds of homes. Hawaii Land Use Commission , 20-54. relisted after the Jan.

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