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By Colleen Murphy | December 5, 2023
Alexander Shalom, the senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the American Civil Liberties Union's New Jersey chapter, argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court for the 100th time last week.
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By ALM Staff | December 4, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Rachel McKane and David Pellow | December 1, 2023
Racketeering charges typically are reserved for people accused of conspiring toward a criminal goal, such as members of organized crime networks or financiers engaged in insider trading. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is attempting to build an argument that seeking to stop construction of the police training facility—through actions that include organizing protests, occupying the construction site and vandalizing police cars and construction equipment—constitutes a "corrupt agreement" or shared criminal goal.
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By Matt Brown | The Associated Press | December 1, 2023
A record number of Black attorneys general, seven in total, are serving today. Two Black attorneys, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have servedg as U.S. attorney general. And the vice president, Kamala Harris, was the first Black woman elected attorney general.
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By Mason Lawlor | November 30, 2023
Court found their request to replace Georgia's chosen form of government with a completely different one "strains both federalism and Section 2 to the breaking point."
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By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press | November 30, 2023
"If you get arrested in one of these counties where grand juries seldom meet, you can wind up in jail for months or even years just waiting to be indicted, and you will spend more time behind bars simply because of geographic misfortune," said Cliff Johnson, an attorney who is director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | November 28, 2023
Justices on Tuesday questioned the state's argument that physicians and patients may not overcome the state's sovereign immunity.
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By Anthony Michael Kreis | November 27, 2023
After a federal appeals court in Arkansas recently ruled that only the federal government—not private citizens or civil rights groups—could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act, an appeal to the Supreme Court is likely. But if the ruling stands, it could gut individual persons' and civil rights groups' legal right to fight racial discrimination in voting.
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By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | November 27, 2023
The ruling is important beyond Georgia's Public Service Commission because it could help protect certain statewide elections in other states subject to scrutiny for racial discrimination under the Voting Rights Act.
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By ALM Staff | November 27, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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