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29 Mar 2019, 2:23 pm
Supreme Court issued a stay for a Texas murderer who says he wants his "Buddhist spiritual advisor" "or another Buddhist reverend of the State's choosing" to be with him in the execution chamber. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 12:30 pm
Supreme Court: Not without a Buddhist priest in the execution chamber. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 9:44 am
The Associated Press reports that Patrick Murphy sought the stay because state corrections officials would not allow a Buddhist priest to be in the death chamber during his execution, which he claimed discriminated against his religion. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 9:24 am
Previously, under Texas law only spiritual advisers for Christianity or Islam were allowed in the execution chamber. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 7:42 am
Judges held cooking contests in their chambers with prosecutors, defense attorneys and staff vying to make the best cookies or lasagna. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 7:07 am
Supreme Court, by a 7-2 vote, ruled in favor of Buddhist prisoner Patrick Murphy who wanted his Buddhist spiritual adviser to be present in the execution chamber when his execution, scheduled for last night, was carried out. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 6:10 am
The peace agreement’s drafters, for good and ill, designed a special judicial process (known as the Special Jurisdiction for Peace [JEP]) that is remarkably complex, with three chambers composed of 18 total magistrates and a peace tribunal composed of four sections and 20 magistrates. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 4:10 am
Last night the Supreme Court halted the execution of a Buddhist prisoner, Patrick Murphy, pending review of Murphy’s challenge to Texas’ refusal to allow a Buddhist priest to join him in the execution chamber. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 4:00 am
For example, the current rules in Ontario provide that a retired SCC judge “shall not appear as counsel or advocate in any court, or in chambers, or before any administrative board or tribunal without the express approval of a panel of the Hearing Division of the Law Society Tribunal” and note that “this approval may only be granted in exceptional circumstances and may be restricted as the panel sees fit. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 9:24 pm
Here is the relevant excerpt from the Fifth Circuit opinion: Unlike the situation described by the dissenting Justices in Ray, the policy of only permitting [Texas Department of Criminal Justice]-employed chaplains into the execution chamber at issue in this case has been in place since at least 2012 and is not ambiguous about pre[sence in the execution chamber as distinct from in the adjacent viewing area. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 9:11 pm
Last month the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to execute a Muslim inmate after denying the inmate’s request to have an imam at his side in the execution chamber, even though the prison would have allowed a Christian chaplain to be present in the chamber. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 8:57 pm
28 Mar 2019, 7:53 pm
Supreme Court stops execution of ‘Texas Seven’ prisoner; Patrick Murphy was one of the escaped convicts sentenced to death for the murder of Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery; The high court stopped his execution because Texas officials wouldn’t let a Buddhist priest into the death chamber with him. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 9:10 am
Murphy’s speech to the South Jersey Chamber of Commerce yesterday speaks volumes,” Pennacchio added. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 6:56 am
The Governor rescinded the lethal injection protocol and closed the San Quentin execution chamber concurrent with his announcement. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 1:47 am
Emma Foubister is a barrister at Matrix Chambers whose practice includes media and information law. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 8:18 pm
This is not the first time the Illinois legislature has considered changes to BIPA (see here and here), so we will have to watch to see if the bill moves through the chamber. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 4:46 pm
The Netherlands was one of the countries where, after the Senate came close to torpedoing the proposal (see our earlier blogpost), such an international commercial court (chamber) was created. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 1:07 pm
“I must say,” Gorsuch told Francisco, “I cast a skeptical eye when the government is worried about private reliance interests,” because “every private party before us” – from the Chamber of Commerce to veterans and immigration lawyers – “says their interests in stability would be better served by eliminating this rule altogether. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 5:55 am
Supreme Court vacated the the stay of execution that had been granted the day before by the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to a Muslim inmate who wanted to have his Imam instead of the Christian prison chaplain with him in the execution chamber. [read post]
