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Supreme Court denies Johnson and Johnson appeal over talcum powder lawsuits

JURIST

In 2014, Mississippi sued Johnson & Johnson, arguing that the company’s failure to warn users of the talcum powder in its products violated state law. Because the FDA did not require a warning label, Johnson & Johnson argues that Mississippi is barred from suing the company.

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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 burden of the chronic “Initial Appearance Crisis” falls disproportionately on Black people, who are far more likely to be detained before trial than white people because they lack money for bail or for legal counsel. What is a “reasonable” amount of time for a defendant to wait in jail for someone to actually start to defend them?

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Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?

LawSites

legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. For many with legal problems, simply knowing the law and their rights is the first step toward achieving a resolution.

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

At the Lectern

’ ” The release includes a timeline with reviews of 18 significant moments in the State’s legal history regarding African-Americans. The court ordered an enslaved person — Archy Lee — returned to his enslaver, a Mississippi citizen. Ex parte Archy (1858) 9 Cal. Following the U.S. ” (9 Cal. ” (9 Cal.

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Mississippi House of Representatives passes bill seeking to define sex in binary terms

JURIST

The Mississippi House of Representatives passed on Wednesday a bill that seeks to define sex in strictly binary terms, impacting the recognition of transgender individuals’ identities within the state. ” The ACLU of Mississippi, however, condemned the bill’s effort to narrowly define sex-based terms.

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Mississippi judge allows state trigger ban to take effect, orders abortion clinic to close

JURIST

A Mississippi judge Tuesday blocked a challenge to the state’s abortion ban, shutting down abortion access in the cascading aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch published a certification on June 27 that formally recognized the overturning of landmark abortion rights decision Roe v.

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