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7 Jul 2008, 6:50 am
Critics say the laws are a backdoor way to keep sex offenders locked up longer, violate their constitutional rights and endanger others seeking psychiatric treatment in facilities where the sex offenders are confined.In the most recently ended legislative session, lawmakers asked the state health department to study ways to set up a civil commitment system for Louisiana's violent sex offenders. [read post]
5 Jul 2008, 10:41 am
The Justice Department, which normally weighs in on cases affecting federal statutes, has admitted that it should have noted the 2006 law. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 4:54 pm
  One of the lawyers involved in arguing the Louisiana position stated that the 2006 law "simply 'eluded everyone's research.'"  Now Justice Department lawyers are issuing a mea culpa, admitting that they should have found the 2006 law and mentioned it in their briefs. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 11:49 pm
Louisiana.But here's the part of the article most important for we military justice wonks:The Justice Department statement was carefully worded to avoid conceding that under the reasoning of the Supreme Court decision, the military death penalty provision for child rape is now unconstitutional.The statement noted that in a 1996 decision, Loving v. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 7:49 pm
UPDATE (7/7/08):    SCOTUSBlog explains how the mistake in Kennedy may play out, and how the Department of Justice accepted responsibility for the error. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 3:36 am
SCHWAB'SCHALLENGE TO FLORIDA'S LETHAL INJECTION PROCEDURES ANDPROFICIENCY OF THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS INADMINISTERING LETHAL INJECTIONS IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SIXTH,EIGHTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS INTERPRETED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT INBAZE V. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 8:35 am
The Court reversed the death penalty for a Louisiana man sentenced for raping and seriously injuring, but not killing, his 8-year-old stepdaughter. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 1:31 pm
Back in April, we blogged about the arguments in Kennedy, focusing on a contentious exchange that Fisher, who co-chairs Davis Wright & Tremaine’s appellate litigation department, had with Justice Scalia. [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 9:02 am
Find out if commissary services are contracted or performed in house, and if it's a contract, file open records requests for all the communications you can lay your hands on between the company and the department, particularly the Sheriff. [read post]