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20 May 2024, 10:22 am by Kalvis Golde
Alabama, the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
19 May 2024, 6:24 pm by Howard Bashman
“We’ll Protect Both Life and IVF: A Senate bill to clear up confusion after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling. [read post]
After a lengthy procedural history in which the map was ruled unconstitutional at the district level before stalling on appeal as the Supreme Court decided a similar case in Alabama, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision and ordered the map redrawn. [read post]
15 May 2024, 3:14 pm by Amy Howe
Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected a request from the state officials and Republican legislators defending the maps to put the judge’s decision on hold, but the Supreme Court paused the case until it issued its decision in June of last year in a similar challenge to Alabama’s congressional map. [read post]
10 May 2024, 6:45 am by Evangelina Cantu
They rely on the equal sovereignty principle, which the Supreme Court applied in Shelby County v. [read post]
10 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities Alabama – Legislation to Change Alabama Ethics Law Dies in Committee Yahoo News – Ralph Chapoco (Alabama Reflector) | Published: 5/8/2024 A push to change Alabama’s ethics laws for elected officials died in a Senate committee, with supporters saying they would try to bring legislation back next year. [read post]
9 May 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Her office announced that Alan Eugene Miller would be put to death sometime within thirty hours after 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 26, 2024.The governor’s action followed a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court granting the state attorney general’s request for permission to set Miller’s execution date. [read post]
9 May 2024, 2:41 pm by Ilya Somin
First, they contend the issue was resolved in two earlier Supreme Court precedents: Ultimately, we need not reweigh the competing due process arguments advanced by the parties because this Court's decisions in United States v. $8,850, 461 U. [read post]
8 May 2024, 9:05 pm by Tyler Hoguet
Supreme Court ruled that an employee has the burden of proving that an employer would not have taken an adverse action against them but for the existence of retaliatory motives. [read post]
8 May 2024, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
”...Moving to plaintiffs' free expression claim, the court rejected the state's reliance on the exception found in the Supreme Court's 1949 Giboney decision for speech integral to unlawful conduct. [read post]
6 May 2024, 12:25 pm by Lawrence Solum
And separately, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that an embryo was a person which therefore made IVF temporarily illegal. [read post]
1 May 2024, 7:52 am by Alyzza Austriaco
The measure was prompted by the Alabama Supreme Court ruling in February temporarily halting in vitro fertilization in that state and prompting lawmakers there to hastily pass legislation restarting it ( SB 159 ). ( LOUISIANA ILLUMINATOR , ALABAMA REFLECTOR , LEXISNEXIS STATE NET) MI Bills Would Allow Pharmacists to Prescribe Hormonal Birth Control Michigan lawmakers are considering a pair of bills aimed at improving access to hormonal birth control. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities Alabama – Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:16 pm by Mark Walsh
There are references to Supreme Court foundational classics such as Marbury v. [read post]