Legal Mississippi Stare Decisis 
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Photo courtesy Mississippi Department of Corrections. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v.
JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
Mississippi that when sentencing juvenile defendants to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, judges need not make a separate factual finding concerning the defendant’s youth. The post US Supreme Court rules on life imprisonment for juveniles appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 6, 2021
For us, Supreme Court precedent, yes stare decisis, is loud and clear : Women, and the privacy and integrity of our bodies and our equal status under law, are written in the silent ink of the Constitution through the fifth and fourteenth amendments. The boat is sinking. What will our Justices do? United States.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 5, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. She said many abortion opponents, including the sponsors of the Mississippi abortion law at issue, hoped her three new colleagues would allow for the reversal or reduction of Roe v. They are not the only figures showing such selective outrage.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2021
And just six minutes before 10, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch arrives with state Solicitor General Scott Stewart, who will argue in defense of the state’s prohibition on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. After a few questions from Thomas, the chief justice zeroes in on Mississippi’s 15-week ban.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and her team are urging the court to reverse Roe and return this issue to legislatures, the proper realm for policymaking. Anthony List hope the court will do precisely what Mississippi and a dozen other states request. The abortion providers’ case relies heavily on stare decisis.
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