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A unanimous ruling by the Utah Supreme Court Tuesday denied a petition by citizens to block the governor’s and legislature’s actions on a medical marijuana bill. The case revolves around two tools the citizens of Utah have for enacting laws through ballot measures. First, in an initiative, upon receiving a sufficient number of verified signatures, [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected a plea for Muslim women to be allowed entry into mosques in the country. A regional head of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, a far-right political organization, had filed the public interest litigation petition. The petitioner had also sought the abolition of the “purdah system,” or the [...]

The US Supreme Court added 13 cases to its docket for the October 2019 term Friday, including three cases challenging the Trump administration’s decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protected undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as children from deportation. The court also denied review of an Alabama [...]

The US Supreme Court held in a 7-2 decision on Friday that undocumented immigrants must know both that they are in the country illegally and that they belong to a class that is proscribed from possessing firearms to be prosecuted under federal law. The petitioner, Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif, whose F-1 student visa had [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that property owners who have had their property taken by state or local governments may file a Fifth Amendment takings claim in federal court without having to first exhaust remedies in state court. The Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause requires that the government provide “just compensation” when taking private [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief on Tuesday with the US Supreme Court urging it to find that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The LDF submitted the brief in support of the [...]

New Hampshire Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled Wednesday that lawmakers are violating the New Hampshire Constitution by not funding an appropriate education for students in the state’s districts. However, he also stated that the legislature was the proper governing body to rectify this issue. Ruoff did not specify to the legislature what the formula [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a creditor may be held in civil contempt for violating a bankruptcy court’s discharge order if there is no fair ground of doubt as to whether the order barred the creditor’s conduct. The case, Taggart v. Lorenzen, involved the petitioner Bradley Taggart, who had once owned an interest [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday held that pretrial detention during a term of supervised release can toll, or pause, that term of release. In Mont v. US the petitioner was serving a five-year term of supervised release when he was arrested on state drug trafficking charges, violating the terms of his release. The district [...]

A group of transgender women on Wednesday challenged a Pennsylvania law that prevents them from legally changing their names because they have been convicted of felonies. The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), together with Pro Bono partner Reed Smith, filed a constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania statute 54 PaCS § 702(c)(1)–(2). The challenge argues [...]