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Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion

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Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. On Monday, the court was confronted with an emergency application from Texas abortion providers seeking to prevent that state from functionally banning abortions in the state. Wade to the Present.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upholding a similar Iowa law. By contrast, the petition in Mallory v.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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In addition, the Supreme Court held a few years back that the appointment procedures for SEC administrative law judges violate the Constitution’s appointments clause. Texas , 21-6001. Issues : (1) Whether, on remand, the Texas court rejected the Supreme Court’s conclusions in Andrus v. relisted after the April 29 conference).

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Are timing limits on property owners’ claims jurisdictional?

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The landowners note that in 2009, picking up on the court’s changing case law, the U.S. Texas , 21-6001. Issues : (1) Whether, on remand, the Texas court rejected the Supreme Court’s conclusions in Andrus v. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit held that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is not jurisdictional.

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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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By contrast, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that Baltimore’s similar tax was constitutionally permissible, concluding that the law did not single out the press and was therefore subject to only the lowest form of constitutional scrutiny: rational basis review. Texas , 21-6001. Cincinnati seeks review in City of Cincinnati, Ohio v.

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Two death penalty cases and free speech at animal facilities

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Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. On remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus. Texas , Andrus maintains that the Texas court disregarded the Supreme Court’s express guidance for conducting the prejudice analysis.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Ross , involving a dormant commerce clause challenge to a California law prohibiting the sale of pork unless the pigs from which it was made (virtually all of which come from outside the state) were raised consistent with the state’s restrictive standards. Case in point: Texas v. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.