HowAppealing
JUNE 8, 2021
“Detrimental Reliance and Stare Decisis; Insightful thoughts from Dean Vik Amar relevant to Ramos v. Louisiana”: Will Baude has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 22, 2021
Louisiana – required the judge who sentenced him to find that he was incapable of rehabilitation before imposing life without parole. How low,” she concluded, “this Court’s respect for stare decisis has sunk.”. Alabama and its 2016 ruling in Montgomery v.
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JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
Louisiana , judges could only sentence juvenile defendants to life imprisonment if they made a separate factual finding that the defendant could not be rehabilitated. The challenge came from Brett Jones, who was convicted in 2004 of killing his grandfather at age 15. Alabama and 2016’s Montgomery v.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
Louisiana (2016), the court ruled the decision in Miller applied retroactively and that it applied “for all but the rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility.”. “The Four years later, in Montgomery v. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 13, 2024
10] where Petitioner Unterweser agreed to tow respondent’s drilling rig from Louisiana to Italy, with a forum-selection clause stipulating that any disputes would be litigated in the High Court of Justice in London. It has anchorage on doctrines such as stare decisis and precedents. Supreme Court in cases such as The Bremen v.
Above The Law
JUNE 28, 2022
Stare decisis? A matter of judgment: Louisiana judge temporarily prevents abortion ban from kicking in. * Here's a map showing the legality of abortion, state by state. [ The Guardian ]. I hardly knew her! [ States scramble to prevent the 2nd Amendment from being an absolute right. [ The post Morning Docket: 06.28.22
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Over a dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that was joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court declined to review the case of a Louisiana man whose conviction relied in part on extensive testimony by the prosecutor who had presented the case to a grand jury. In a 15-page opinion, Sotomayor detailed the facts of Anthony’s case.
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