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A Major Property Rights Case Idles on Supreme Court Docket

The Court has been punting for months on whether it will take up a legal challenge brought by Los Angeles landlords alleging their city's COVID-era eviction ban was a physical taking.

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Not Guilty but Punished Anyway

Sentencing defendants based on acquitted conduct violates basic notions of justice.

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Supreme Court halts lower court order to rehire at six agencies - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused an order that required the Trump administration to reinstate 16,000 fired probationary federal workers.

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A Nevada Math Professor Who Was Disciplined for Criticizing Curriculum Changes Will Get His Day in Court

The 9th Circuit revived a First Amendment lawsuit by Lars Jensen, who says his community college punished him for complaining about dumbed-down courses.

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Appeals Court Blocks Arizona Laws Requiring Citizenship Proof for Voter Registration Citing Voter Suppression

A federal appeals court upheld a previous ruling that blocked two Arizona laws that sought to increase proof-of-citizenship for voter registration.

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Supreme Court Won't Hear a Qualified Immunity Case Where a Cop Disclosed an Abuse Report to a Woman's Abuser

Desiree Martinez says police officers ignored her attempts to report her abusive boyfriend, who was also a cop. Those officers now have immunity from her lawsuit.

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Judges wrestle with latest Supreme Court gun rights opinion - Roll Call

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion on gun rights has not eliminated the disagreement among judges in those challenges, legal experts say.

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The First Amendment Right To 'Greenmail' Developers

Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.

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9th Circuit Partly Upholds Injunctions Against Location-Specific Gun Bans in California and Hawaii

The ruling says some restrictions on guns in "sensitive places" are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others.

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Hawaii can ban guns on beaches, an appeals court says

A U.S. appeals court ruling says Hawaii can enforce a law banning firearms on its world-famous beaches, but not at other so-called sensitive places, including banks

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California School Punishes First-Grader for a Drawing, Sparking Federal Lawsuit

The First Amendment case about a first-grader’s free speech rights is headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

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9th Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity for Honolulu Cops Who Handcuffed 10-Year-Old Girl

Officers should have known that handcuffing a compliant 10-year-old is unnecessary, the court ruled.

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Gorsuch Apes NIMBY Government Lies in Supreme Court's Grants Pass Decision

Plus: A disappointing first round of "Baby YIMBY" grant awards, President Joe Biden endorses rent control, and House Republicans propose cutting housing spending.

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Supreme Court Rules That Punishing the Homeless for Sleeping Outside Isn't 'Cruel and Unusual'

Homeless advocates say the court's decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson gives local governments a blank check to "to arrest or fine those with no choice but to sleep outdoors."

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Supreme Court sidesteps case on whether federal law on medical emergencies overrides Idaho’s abortion ban

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by the federal government regarding whether Idaho’s abortion ban conflicts with a federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The law requires emergency rooms to provide stabilizing care for patients experiencing medical emergencies regardless of…

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Supreme Court allows abortion in Idaho emergency rooms, for now - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will allow abortions in Idaho in emergency situations, for now, despite the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

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In Hawaii, Permission To Use Medical Marijuana Precludes Permission To Own a Gun

The state's gun permit policy underlines the absurdity of assuming that cannabis consumers are too dangerous to be trusted with firearms.

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Appeals Court Rules That Cops Can Physically Make You Unlock Your Phone

The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.

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This Colorado Bill Would Abolish the Right to Armed Self-Defense in Many 'Sensitive Places'

Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.

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The Twisted Logic of Greg Abbott's Border Policy

Undocumented immigrants aren’t the same as an invading army, but the Texas governor keeps acting like they are.

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9th Circuit Temporarily Restores the Right To Bear Arms As It Mulls California's New Gun-Free Zones

The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.

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Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce abortion ban - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will decide this term whether Idaho can enforce its abortion ban as it applies to emergency rooms.

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School board members could soon be blocked from blocking people − and deleting their comments − on social media

If a school board member has a social media account, would it be wrong for them to block someone and delete their comments? That’s a question the Supreme Court has decided to take up after public officials, including two school board members, blocked constituents from seeing their accounts or removed…

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California's 'Repugnant' Restrictions on Public Gun Possession Just Took Effect

After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.

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Appeals court tosses convictions of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry - Roll Call

An appeals court said former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., should not have been tried in California on charges of lying to investigators.

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