HowAppealing

APRIL 9, 2022

“Idaho Supreme Court Halts 6-Week Abortion Ban Based on Texas’ Law; The court says Idaho’s law cannot go into effect this month as scheduled while it reviews legal challenges; The ban prohibits abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected”: Vimal Patel has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Both activists and legal community members are calling for prosecutors to mount a more substantive case against them, reports Odette Yousef for NPR.

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Above The Law

MARCH 2, 2022

* Come back when you’re older, spud: Bill to make tobacco purchasing age 21 passed Idaho’s Senate. Not enough of a good thing: a spike in need for legal help fighting evictions is hurting legal services. [ New Florida law makes panhandling a fineable offense. Idaho Capital Sun ]. appeared first on Above the Law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

The University of Idaho has lost a major free speech and religious freedom case after a federal judge ruled in favor of three Christian law students at College of Law. Students, faculty, and staff from the law school gathered in front of the Moscow, Idaho, campus to express support for all students.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2024

Tarah Demant, the National Director of Programs at Amnesty International USA, said that the court’s decision to overturn Roe has led to “a patchwork of devastating laws” across the country. Wade , the landmark case from 1973 that established the constitutional right to abortion.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There has been much talk in the last week about a letter from the University of Idaho General Counsel’s Office warning professors about discussing abortion. The warning is outgrowth of the No Public Funds for Abortion Act (Idaho Code Section 18-8701 through Section 18-8711). The letter triggered alarm on the Idaho faculty.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block access to emergency abortion services in Idaho. US , the Supreme Court was asked to determine whether a federal law —the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)—would preempt Idaho’s near-total abortion ban. In Moyle v.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

LegalCheek ] * NY puts off looking into proposals that could allow non-attorneys to provide some legal services to cover justice gap. [ New York Law Journal ] * WeWork hoping to use bankruptcy law to storm back for the hybrid work world. appeared first on Above the Law. Law360 ] * Wachtell names new leadership.

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Above The Law

APRIL 16, 2024

* Supreme Court authorizes Idaho's anti-trans care law with Justice Gorsuch writing that the decision might abuse the standard notion of the Court's shadow docket power, but all the justices who created those precedents are dead now and we have a supermajority so YOLO (you'd be shocked at how lightly paraphrased that is too).

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MARCH 11, 2024

legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. The other is the continuing lack of public access to the law. Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S.

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Above The Law

APRIL 27, 2022

Members of the law school Christian Legal Society say they were punished for expressing their religious beliefs. The post Three Students Sue Law School For Violating First Amendment Rights appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

MAY 9, 2023

Mackenzie Davidson grew up in a Mormon household and sheepishly admits she knew little about […]

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Above The Law

MARCH 29, 2023

* Idaho planning to criminalize interstate travel to procure legal services in another state. If only the Constitution said something about states fully and faithfully crediting the laws of other states. Bloomberg Law News ] * Over 100 law professors urge New York not to mess with bail reform laws.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2023

State of Idaho. This action, in effect, prevents the enforcement of Section 18-622 of Idaho law which criminalizes those who perform or attempt to perform an abortion, unless carrying the pregnancy to term is likely to result in the death of the mother.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

link] The Kentucky Court of Justice has multiple services to help the self-represented linked to their Legal Self-Help page at: [link] The page includes multiple tutorials on subjects such as eviction relief, small claims, protective orders, and an online glossary of legal terms.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily reinstated Idaho’s abortion ban, which includes emergency abortions, and agreed to hear arguments on the matter. Section 18-622 of the Idaho Statutes criminalizes performing or attempting to perform an abortion, unless not doing so would result in the mother’s death.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Do state laws permitting individuals to carry concealed weapons undermine federal legislation banning weapons in the vicinity of schools? Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The court’s decision could fundamentally restructure interstate groundwater law in the United States for decades — or the case could be dismissed immediately on the grounds that Mississippi has failed to allege the proper cause of action. The key legal issue in Mississippi v. At the same time, however, the Idaho v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Idaho legislators proposed a bill Friday calling on Congress to close a legal loophole in a region encompassing an uninhabited 50-square mile tract of land within Yellowstone National Park, which supposedly permits the commission of serious criminal acts such as murder and kidnapping without consequences.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 25, 2023

The ruling was a setback for the Environmental Protection Agency and a victory for an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who have been battling with the federal government for over 15 years in their efforts to build a house on an empty lot near a large lake.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

As a refresher, in the forty-five days before a primary election, broadcasters must extend to legally qualified candidates their lowest unit rate and continue to follow all other applicable political broadcasting rules. The law gives the Texas Attorney General or an individual user the right to bring a legal action against a platform.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

But local governments operate under varying legal parameters, and the Ninth Circuit decision has different implications for different building electrification requirements depending on location, legal landscape, and policy approach. This post is not expressing a legal opinion on Ithaca’s code.) Clean Air Act, not EPCA.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

But their continued presence undermines the rule of law, warns a forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal article. Their ambiguous status “undermines” the rule of law in the criminal justice system. Johnson proposes three ways to implement the desuetude principle into law. Criminal codes around the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In many states, the legal system assumes that young children are not capable of the thought and planning that goes into committing a violent crime. This remains unclear, and due to juvenile privacy laws, we may never know. In 2021 in Rigby, Idaho, a 12-year-old girl shot three people during a planned attack at Rigby Middle School.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The state of Idaho and the Alliance Defending Freedom, an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group, have appealed to the Supreme Court to allow an Idaho law that would penalize abortion providers, Carter Sherman reports for The Guardian.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information. The FCC has designated for a hearing the renewal application of an Idaho radio station based on the station’s record of extended silence and operation at significantly reduced power.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion, setting up the Biden administration’s first legal battle over abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the legality of state efforts to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors — a contentious issue in a nation deeply divided over transgender rights and the role of medical intervention in youth gender identity. The law also curtailed then-ongoing gender-affirming care for minor patients.

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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

The nominal juror compensation provided under current law places a significant financial burden that prevents too many low-income people from serving on a jury.”. Some counties in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee pay $10; in Georgia, some pay $5, says The Indy.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 17, 2023

. § 2255 limits a district court’s discretion to consider—among other circumstance-specific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings as “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) as amended by the First Step Act.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

In the most recent study, Idaho was singled out as relying almost entirely on penalties and fines to fund its judicial system, even as the state confronts more than $195 million in uncollected court debt. Mostly white and rural states like Idaho regularly impose substantial monetary sanctions on people without the means to pay them.”.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2024

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Tuesday signed into law a gender-affirming healthcare ban for transgender minors. ” Critics of HB 4624, however, emphasize the harm that the law will impose on transgender youth. .” South Carolina is now the 25th state to restrict or ban gender-affirming treatment for minors.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 2, 2022

sues Idaho over near-total abortion ban coming Aug. 25; The lawsuit filed Tuesday was the Biden administration’s first legal action since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. “Justice Dept. Wade in June”: Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post have this report.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Sabin Center’s Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative provides pro bono legal counsel to community members who support renewable energy projects.) . In contrast to the natural gas permitting scheme, no federal law provides a specific approval process for siting oil pipelines. Three Recent Pipeline Setbacks.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

Furthermore, the Texas Legislature has the constitutional authority to regulate medical practice, and parents can choose only among legal medical procedures. The Supreme Court said last week that it will review the legality of state efforts to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2024

The city argued that the ordinances merely bar camping on public property by everyone, while the challengers contended that the laws effectively make it a crime to be homeless in the city and therefore violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. There’s nothing in the law that criminalizes homelessness.”

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2021

Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas were among other states. Governor Greg Abbott approved the law in 2017. .” ” They further argued that Texas is entitled to relief because California’s law “infringes on the dormant Commerce Clause and the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”

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