The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. When it was instituted, there was overt classism in the legal system: you’re basically only going to have a lawyer if you can afford one.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast , and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Michael Dreeben, another solicitor general’s office veteran, is listed as Prelogar’s co-instructor. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

That will reunite former Solicitor General Paul Clement (Axon’s lawyer) with his former #2 Greg Garre (Cochran’s lawyer), who succeeded him in that post. Federal Trade Commission (which involves essentially the same issue for that agency’s administrative process) that the court seems likely to hear both together next fall.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. New Relist.

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LawSites

JUNE 2, 2022

Designed to help lawyers improve the drafts of their briefs and legal documents, BriefCatch is a Microsoft Word add-in that offers some 11,000 style and editing suggestions, together with explanations and illustrations drawn from the exemplary writing of actual lawyers and judges. How the Draft Scored.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Solicitor General Paul Clement, as well as lawyers from the New Jersey public-interest firm Cause of Action. Although stare decisis analysis may apply to that holding, it does not apply to the interpretative methodology outlined in Chevron. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. As lawyers, as women, as mothers, as advocates for children’s rights, we could easily despair.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Americans United for Life argues that “ Roe and Casey contradict the stare decisis values of consistency, dependability, and predictability and are entitled to minimal stare decisis respect.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But today, the only attendees will be the three arguing lawyers (and their second chairs), essential court personnel, most if not all of the justices’ law clerks, two spouses of justices, three sketch artists, and 18 news correspondents. Even before the justices take the bench, Stewart is chomping at the bit. Casey did that,” she replies. “No,

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Would they strike down Roe and Casey , as lawyers for Mississippi urged them to do, or would they stop short of formally overruling those cases but still uphold the state’s ban? The only real question was how far the justices might go. We may have been a dysfunctional family,” Thomas said, “but we were a family.”.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Entirely apart from his jurisprudence, I think the sarcasm of Justice Scalia ‘s opinions sets a terrible example for lawyers and law students on how to write. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent? CHEMERINSKY: I think it’s a terrible change. I’ve written about this. THE CRIME REPORT: Does that ever get changed?

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