Abortion Law
Garza v. Hargan
En Banc D.C. Circuit Upholds Order Requiring HHS to Allow an Undocumented Minor to Have an Abortion.
Recent Cases
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Criminal Law
State v. Gray
Washington Supreme Court Affirms Child Pornography Conviction of Teenager.
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Criminal Law
Brangan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Holds that Judges Must Issue Findings of Fact when Setting Unaffordable Bail for Indigent Defendants.
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Civil Rights
Palakovic v. Wetzel
Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
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Eighth Amendment
United States v. Slatten
D.C. Circuit Holds It Cruel and Unusual to Impose Mandatory Thirty-Year Sentence on Military Contractors for Gun Charge.
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Title VII
Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College
Seventh Circuit Holds Sexual Orientation Discrimination Is a Form of Sex Discrimination.
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Political Question Doctrine
bin Ali Jaber v. United States
D.C. Circuit Holds Statutory Challenge to Drone Strike is Nonjusticiable.
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Sentencing
Lucero v. People
Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole.
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Sovereign Immunity
Doe v. Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
D.C. Circuit Finds Ethiopia Immune in Hacking Suit.
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42 U.S.C. ยง 1983
Colbert v. City of Chicago
Seventh Circuit Suggests Conspiracy-of-Silence Claim for Plaintiffs Who Are Prevented from Witnessing Search.