JURIST

APRIL 25, 2023

The NAACP Monday filed a lawsuit to block a new Mississippi bill that they allege would violate the state’s constitution. House Bill (HB) 1020 allows the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice to appoint four judges to the Circuit Court of Hinds County. African Americans in Mississippi died so that we could vote.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This case arises out of a lawsuit between Jackson Women’s Health Organization—the only abortion provider in the state—and the state of Mississippi. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch then filed a brief with the Supreme Court in July asking it to reconsider its precedential rulings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2025

The petitioners comprise Republican-led states Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, and Mississippi, alongside the American Petroleum Institute and Gulf Energy Alliance. This legal challenge follows prior litigation against the Biden administrations attempts to pause oil and gas leasing, which the same court struck down in 2022.

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Chugh LLP

AUGUST 19, 2021

. During this informative video, Chugh, LLP legal professionals provide an overview of legal considerations you should consider before filing for divorce, including: Prenuptial agreements. Legal separation. This legal binding contract lays out the ownership of their assets in case the marriage fails or otherwise ends.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50 , the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Mississippi; Nominee for Chair, U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

1 in a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. But the majority, over dissents by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices, nonetheless allowed the Texas law to go into effect while litigation challenging its constitutionality continues in the lower courts.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

Dodge (George Washington University Law School) and first published on Transnational Litigation Blog. The original version can be found at Transnational Litigation Blog. litigation, it would not involve arguing the merits of Chinas actions during the pandemic or submitting to U.S. This article was written by Prof. Limbaugh, Jr.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2025

A Mississippi federal judge said Tuesday that he will allow two outside nonprofits to step into litigation over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $5 overdraft fee rule and defend the Biden-era regulation against a banking industry-backed legal challenge.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

The court added nine other cases to its docket for the 2021-22 term, on issues ranging from securities litigation to interstate water disputes. Premier Rehab Keller , a lawsuit filed in federal court in 2018 by Jane Cummings, who has been deaf since birth and is legally blind. Mississippi v. Pivotal Software v.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

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. Without more, this activity cannot be deemed ‘outrageous’ in the legal sense.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

Plaintiff also testified that he printed the power of attorney form online, and that anytime he presented the document, he stated that he was not sure of its legality. 34-6-208, would not apply to this power of attorney because it was executed in Mississippi. Code Ann. §

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Brown took the decision to segregate Black and white children in education out of the hands of those racist political majorities of state governments, like Mississippi, and shielded children with the protection of the Constitution. As with most societal injustices, the climate crisis harms children of color and pregnant Black mothers most.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 13, 2021

Here’s the full list of cases scheduled for argument in the October session: Mississippi v. A lawyer and former judge appointed by the justices to review the case recommended that Mississippi’s complaint be dismissed. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd , 11th and Federal Circuits) have done or plan to do in the fall. Tennessee (Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Breyer wrote his own dissent , which was joined by Kagan and Sotomayor, in which he acknowledged the procedural challenges posed by the Texas law but expressed skepticism as to “why that fact should make a critical legal difference” when “the invasion of a constitutional right” is at issue.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

They asked the justices to intervene on an emergency basis and block the enforcement of the law while a challenge to its constitutionality is litigated in the lower courts. The Mississippi case, Dobbs v.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

.” Tyler Olson of Fox News reports that “ Supreme Court lets challenge to Texas abortion law proceed, allows law to remain in effect; Ruling comes as Supreme Court considers major Mississippi abortion case, too.” ” Reese Oxner of The Texas Tribune reports that “ U.S. ” You can access today’s U.S. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, the court – at least for now – declined to block the law despite the fact that it defies Roe and Casey , the future of which are squarely at issue in a separate case , to be argued in the upcoming 2021-22 term, involving a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Even if S.B.

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The Crime Report

JULY 5, 2022

People involved with the criminal legal system also disproportionately face significant health challenges before, during, and after incarceration. People outside of prison systems can also stockpile medications in advance of a severe weather event, but these same acts are legally prohibited for incarcerated people.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Not only is there a pending case on the docket of the Court that has long been viewed as a serious threat to Roe , but the White House and the House of Representatives are threatening immediate actions that could also create new challenges for pro-choice litigants. Both were legally and factually wrong. to codify Roe.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2025

Reynolds Vapor Company, joined a lawsuit by retailers based in Texas and Mississippi two states covered by the 5th Circuit. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana. The company, R.J. Although the dispute may seem like a technical one, the FDA contends that the stakes are high.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If the law were to be blocked and a clinic legally performed abortions, Kavanaugh queried, would S.B. And Justice Amy Coney Barrett emphasized that even pre-enforcement litigation in the state courts would simply not be as useful to the providers as litigation in federal courts. Kavanaugh also asked Stone about S.B.

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Above The Law

MAY 17, 2021

Fox News ] * Allegations made in litigation suggest that a former Trump lawyer is raiding a nonprofit for her own personal use. [ AP ] * The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned a medical marijuana initiative in that state. Hopefully legalized marijuana there isn't just a "pipe" dream. Mississippi Today ]. *

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. He also founded the Constitutional Litigation Clinic (now the Constitutional Rights Clinic) at Rutgers. As both a government lawyer and in private practice, Douglas Huron spent his legal career advocating on behalf of workers. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

As associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, she helped litigate civil-rights cases in the South. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. Cissy had assisted with the case by transcribing the legal briefs. 2, 2022).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The administration is returning to ask for an injunction from a court that just voted against such an injunction as legally unfounded. As previously discussed , the attempted intervention of the Justice Department in the Texas case was not just legally unnecessary but unwise. For pro-choice advocates, the pending case of Dobbs v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The court also found that the plaintiff’s claim was “frivolous because there is no legal theory on which he can rely.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Second, the states told the justices, Texas’ lawsuit is not a viable case because (again, among other things) Texas does not have a legal right to sue, known as standing, because it cannot show that it has been injured.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Wednesday’s argument in Dobbs , which involves a Mississippi ban on almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, comes 30 days after the court heard arguments in another consequential abortion controversy: a pair of challenges to a six-week abortion ban that took effect in Texas on Sept. Mississippi’s arguments.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. They agreed to hear both cases before the court of appeals has fully weighed in, and they ordered an accelerated schedule for briefing and arguments not seen since the 2000 election litigation in Bush v. 8 — on hold.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Given that there does not seem to have been a single thing Trump has done since entering office that has been legal, nor has his lackey Musk (or is it Trump thats the lackey?), there is not a single thing that doesnt require litigation to challenge and enjoin. And none of this is legal.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

As this matter returns to the states, it is striking to consider what has changed legally and socially in the past 50 years. In the Dobbs litigation of 2022, 26 states asked the court to overturn Roe and its successor, Casey. While Dobbs is a major reversal of a long-standing precedent, much has changed legally since 1973.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

During a nearly 28-year career on the court, Breyer shunned rigid approaches to legal interpretation, often seeking functional rulings with an eye toward real-world consequences. Religion was another area in which Breyer, who is Jewish, sought to reach a solution that worked, even if it did not necessarily hew closely to legal orthodoxy.

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