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Jul 09, 2021US Supreme Court Procedures and Decisions. Robert Longley is a U.S. government and history expert with over 30 years of experience in municipal government and urban planning. From the day the U.S. Supreme Court votes to hear a case to the day some nine months when we learn its decision, lots of high-level law happens.
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A Summary of the Supreme Court's Parental Rights Doctrine: The Supreme Court's Parental Rights Doctrine is the culmination of the Court's rulings on parental rights.Up until 2021, the Supreme Court consistently upheld parental rights. In 2021, however, the split decision in Troxel v.Granville opened the door for individual judges and States to apply their own rules to parental rights.
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Jun 18, 2021The United States Supreme Court today issued a major favorable decision in a case, Fulton v.City of Philadelphia, involving religious liberty. The case considered whether the
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Jan 06, 2021The Supreme Court is expected to rule on both issues. The ruling will be particularly noteworthy because the Court has never issued binding precedent related to the copyrightability of source code and it has not issued a fair use decision in over twenty-five years.
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Sep 14, 2021The Supreme Court of New York issued the order to shut down the trading software Coinseed. Coinseed, a cryptocurrency trading company that reportedly turned its customers' cash into the meme token Dogecoin without their knowledge, has been ordered to shut down forever. The order to shut down Coinseed comes after the New York Attorney General
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Aug 03, 2021The Need for Supreme Court Term Limits. By Maggie Jo Buchanan August 3, 2021, 4:00 am. Getty/Chip Somodevilla The statue Contemplation of Justice stands on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on
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May 14, 2021The Supreme Court Has Given Its Blessing to Public Corruption With its Bridgegate decision, the Supreme Court put another nail in the coffin of our corruption laws. By Elie Mystal Twitter
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Sep 23, 2021In recent years, with the U.S. Congress deadlocked and unable to act, the Supreme Court has issued a string of landmark decisions expanding LGBTQ rights. The culmination came when the high court
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Attorney general offices therefore play an active role before the Supreme Court. Collectively, they are the second most active litigant before the Court, behind only the U.S. government. Two issues relevant to many cases brought before the Court by
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May 31, 2021The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of
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21 The Supreme Court today issued notice in a special leave petition filed by Orissa Administrative Tribunal Bar Association challenging Orissa High Court's order of upholding notification issued
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Aug 29, 2021The Supreme Court has issued fresh standard operating procedures to accord final hearing of cases in physical mode from September 1, and will employ a hybrid option from Tuesday to Thursday amid strict observance of Covid appropriate norms. The top court has been hearing cases through video-conferencing since March last year due to the pandemic and several bar bodies and
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Jul 19, 2021On July 1, 2021 the Supreme Court handed down its decision in a highly anticipated voting rights case, Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, on appeal from the U.S. Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court has almost complete discretion to choose the cases it will hear. The losing side in the lower court files a petition for writ of certiorari. A writ is a court order. Writ of certiorari: the order the Supreme Court issues when it agrees to review a lower court decision; or a Supreme Court order agreeing to hear an appeal.
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May 24, 2021Supreme Court issues 2 unanimous decisions Patrick Semansky/AP FILE - In this March 21, 2021, file photo security fencing surrounds the Supreme Court building on
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Sep 07, 2021The justices issued a 10-0 decision in favor of removing criminal sanctions for abortion in the northern state of Coahuila, where a person could be imprisoned for up to three years for getting an abortion.. Under Mexican law, any supreme court ruling that includes more than eight justices siding with a decision can be applied to the rest of the country as well.
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Sep 02, 2021The Supreme Court denied the government's request to block a lower court's ruling. The Biden administration must as a result restart the controversial border policy. Claire Hansen Aug. 24, 2021
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Jun 18, 2021The Supreme Court issues another important unanimous decision By Andrea Widburg In Philadelphia (as in most cities), the foster care system is dependent on private organizations certifying
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Aug 31, 2021L ast week, it was Remain in Mexico.On Tuesday, the supreme court issued an order requiring the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump
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Apr 12, 2021As the Supreme Court has said for decades, its authority to issue that form of relief is very limited. There's a very widely cited in-chambers opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia from 1986 where
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Jul 26, 2021Below is a list of U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving civil rights and discrimination. Race Discrimination. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856) A major precursor to the Civil War, this controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision denied citizenship and basic rights to all blacks --
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The Supreme Court waited months to act in the case. The last of the written briefs in the case was filed Oct. 19. But a court that includes three Trump appointees waited through the election, Trump's challenge to his defeat and a month after Trump left office before issuing its order.
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Sep 13, 2021Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer issued a warning to Democrats to remake the Supreme Court, including expanding the institution with justices, suggesting that Republicans would take advantage of the Democrats' agenda. Breyer said in an extensive interview with NPR that he would not be up to calls for progressive lawmakers to retire because of his []
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22 Minnesota Supreme Court to weigh in on Minneapolis ballot issue. Wednesday, a coalition of Minneapolis residents spoke about their push to change policing in the city. The Yes 4 Minneapolis
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Jul 19, 2021Issues already on the docket include abortion, guns, religious school choice, the death penalty, and terrorism. It could also add a huge case on affirmative action. The Supreme Court
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Jun 17, 2021BREAKING: Supreme Court issues unanimous religious liberty decision. JIM WATSON / AFP. John Burger-published on 06/17/21 - updated on 06/17/21.
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16 Supreme Court fast tracks Minneapolis ballot issue on police All sides were ordered to file papers by 5 p.m. Wednesday. A lower court ruling said the ballot language was still misleading.
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Apr 25, 20212021 Supreme Court Action . In 2021, four partisan gerrymandering cases came before the Supreme Court. None had substantive rulings. In Gill v. Whitford, No. 16-1161, the Court remanded the case for the plaintiffs to prove standing. In Benisek v. Lamone, No. 17-333, the Court refused to grant a preliminary injunction on the Maryland
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The Arkansas Supreme Court also Thursday dismissed a challenge seeking to remove Issue 5, an increase to the Arkansas minimum wage, from the ballot. The proposal was being challenged over the petition paperwork filed to place the issue on the ballot.
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Nov 27, 2021Reading a U.S. Supreme Court opinion can be intimidating. The average opinion includes 4,751 words, and is one of approximately 75 issued each year. It might be reassuring, however, to know that opinions contain similar parts and tend to follow a similar format. There are also useful things to identify amid the pages to help focus reading.
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