Above The Law
JUNE 28, 2022
Stare decisis? A matter of judgment: Louisiana judge temporarily prevents abortion ban from kicking in. appeared first on Above the Law. * Here's a map showing the legality of abortion, state by state. [ The Guardian ]. I hardly knew her! [ States scramble to prevent the 2nd Amendment from being an absolute right. [
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 13, 2024
Cosmas Emeziem, JSD Cornell University, Drinan Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA. The complexity is also illustrated by the embeddedness of Sharia law, and customary law, in private law in different parts of the country. ©Author 2024.
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JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
Louisiana , judges could only sentence juvenile defendants to life imprisonment if they made a separate factual finding that the defendant could not be rehabilitated. It is hard to see how that approach is “founded in the law rather than in the proclivities of individuals,” [as Justice Kavanaugh said in an earlier decision].
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Natural Resources Defense Council , holding that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of the laws it administers if those laws are ambiguous. On remand, the state court of appeals ruled that any error was harmless, and the Louisiana Supreme Court denied review.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have banned life in prison without parole for children under state law.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. 8 , the Texas law, added a new wrinkle to the so-called heartbeat laws that have become standard fare in conservative states. Wade to the Present.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.
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