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Federal judge rules in favor of creating Mississippi state-run court in capital city

JURIST

A federal judge ruled Sunday that Mississippi officials can create the planned state-run court in Jackson, the state capital, where the majority of residents are Black, despite objections from the NAACP. ” The original lawsuit accuses Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and other state officials of unfairly singling out Jackson.

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A ‘Fair and Speedy Trial’ is a Pipe Dream for Many Poor Americans: Study

The Crime Report

The “reasonable time” permitted under many state statutes can quickly stretch into months, as in the case of Jessica Jauch, a resident of Choctaw County in Mississippi. A Mississippi grand jury indicted Jauch on felony drug charges, issuing a warrant for her arrest that ultimately ended in her incarceration.

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Navigating the waters of the new term

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Jackson asks her first question barely 10 minutes into the argument, and she presses the lawyer for the Sackett family, Damien Schiff, with follow-ups. Justice Clarence Thomas, asking whether any bodies of water were excluded from the statute, notes that he grew up “in low country Georgia and you had standing water. That was normal.”.

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“Milestones for African Americans in the California Judicial Branch” has a number of Supreme Court connections

At the Lectern

The court ordered an enslaved person — Archy Lee — returned to his enslaver, a Mississippi citizen. The court validates a state statute requiring that “[t]he education of children of African descent, and Indian children, shall be provided for in separate schools.” Ex parte Archy (1858) 9 Cal. Following the U.S.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the reimbursement cut was a reasonable interpretation of the Medicare statute; the justices on Friday agreed to weigh in on whether that deference is appropriate in this case. Mississippi v. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,

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No civil liability for sharing truthful information about matter of public concern.

Day on Torts

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Mopping up final business with 14 new relists

SCOTUSBlog

20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. Then there is a case on the court’s original docket , Mississippi v. Mississippi v.