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Two death penalty cases and free speech at animal facilities

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Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. On remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus. Texas , Andrus maintains that the Texas court disregarded the Supreme Court’s express guidance for conducting the prejudice analysis.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Case in point: Texas v. That case, which involved Texas’ challenge to a regulation that delegated governmental authority to an actuarial group to set standards for Medicaid reimbursement, had been rescheduled twice and relisted six times going into last Friday’s conference. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.

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Another look at qualified immunity

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Texas , 21-5050. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. Texas , 21-6001. Issues : (1) Whether, on remand, the Texas court rejected the Supreme Court’s conclusions in Andrus v. relisted after the April 1 conference). Returning Relists. relisted after the Jan. Goertz , 21-442. relisted after the Feb.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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Both cases present the question whether statutes that authorize appellate courts to review final agency adjudications implicitly strip district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to those proceedings. The next two relists raise a related question: whether a habeas corpus statute, 28 U.S.C. Texas , 21-6001.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. In Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

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I cite a story in the book from Tulia, Texas , where a cop goes out and arrests around 10 percent of the black people in town and frames them for drug crimes that they didn’t commit. Lo and behold, most of them pleaded guilty because they felt like they had no other choice. DC: The law exists to protect capital.

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Are timing limits on property owners’ claims jurisdictional?

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The district court held that the federal Quiet Title Act’s 12-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional, concluded that a reasonable landowner would have known that the government had been permitting public use of the road since the 1970s, and dismissed the case. Texas , 21-6001. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed.