JURIST
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law published a report Wednesday identifying thousands of people being held in Mississippi’s county jails while awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail or public defenders unavailable when required.
JURIST
APRIL 27, 2022
Mississippi civic leaders Monday filed a lawsuit against the Mississippi Supreme Court claiming that the state is violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the US Constitution. J ustice Leslie King is the fourth Black justice to sit on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
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JURIST
JANUARY 24, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging a Mississippi felon voter disenfranchisement law. The post US federal appeals court hears oral arguments in Mississippi felony disenfranchisement case appeared first on JURIST - News. The case, Dennis Hopkins v.
ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The right to counsel is “tenuous” in a small Mississippi justice court in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, where two judges appointed lawyers for felony defendants in…
JURIST
JANUARY 2, 2024
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.
LegalReader
MAY 6, 2022
There’s no point in having the children express their wish to live with you as Mississippi courts do not have to take their will into consideration.
JURIST
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The first case the justices heard was Mississippi v. Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border.
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