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.”
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
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SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Mississippi acknowledges that it must overcome the principle of “stare decisis” – the idea that courts should normally follow their prior precedent. But here, the state insists, the “stare decisis case for overruling Roe and Casey is overwhelming.” Stare decisis and the Kavanaugh test.
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.
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.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
For instance, the National Right to Life Committee and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation argue that the court should reject the “categorical viability line” and replace it with a new “roadmap” under which courts would consider all state interests when analyzing the constitutionality of prohibitions on pre-viability elective abortions.
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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