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Alabama Birthing Center Regulations Are Nearly Impossible To Comply With. State Supreme Court Could Intervene.

"It shouldn't be this hard to give birth safely in the state of Alabama, and it doesn't have to," said the ACLU's lead counsel on the case.

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Ohio AG Asks State Supreme Court To Bar Universal Injunction

Can a state trial court issue an "universal injunction" against all parts of a new law, even though "only two named plaintiffs have alleged narrow harms from only one part of the law."

Reason

Wisconsin Senate Attempts to Pass New Legislative Map Before Court

The Wisconsin Senate aims to pass new legislative maps ahead of the state Supreme Court. Stakes are high as political control is at stake in this battlegro...

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‘Deliberate and anti-democratic’: Wisconsin grapples with partisan gerrymandering

State supreme court will hear challenge to legislative map that has cemented Republican legislative power

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Wisconsin Republicans want to impeach a liberal state Supreme Court justice before she has even heard a case

After her blowout victory secured the court’s liberal majority, GOP officials want her off the bench

The Independent UK

Wisconsin Democrats combat impeachment of court justice with $4M effort

The Wisconsin Democratic Party has launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice

The Independent UK

Mandatory retirement ages responsible for half of state supreme court retirements this year

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2023 sees high percentage of mandatory state supreme court retirements, continuing 2022 trend

In 2022 and the first half of 2023, there was been an uptick in the percentage of mandatory retirements in state supreme courts. From 2019 to 2021, about one in every four retirements were mandated, while the remaining were voluntary. In 2022, there was an increase in the proportion of…

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Illinois judge strikes down state's ban on high-powered guns

CHICAGO — A downstate judge on Friday struck down the ban on high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law earlier this year, a ruling the Illinois attorney general’s office immediately appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Chicago Tribune

Hobbs vows not to carry out execution scheduled by court

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials won't carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general

The Independent UK

Work for anti-abortion group issue in Wisconsin court race

The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court provided legal advice to one of the state’s leading anti-abortion groups, work that Wisconsin Right to Life hasn’t detailed but is now being used against Dan Kelly

The Independent UK

Republican lawmakers shy away from changing Montana’s constitutional right to abortion

Republican lawmakers in Montana wield a supermajority that gives them the power to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment that would break the link between abortion rights and the right to privacy in the state’s constitution.

Tribune News Service

Prosecutor suspended by DeSantis asks court to reinstate him

An elected Florida prosecutor who says he was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for political gain and because he is a Democrat is asking the state Supreme Court to reinstate him

The Independent UK

Oregon court refuses to overturn order blocking gun measure

Oregon's Supreme Court has again refused to overturn a lower court ruling blocking a voter-approved gun measure from taking effect

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No new hearing on condemned Missouri man's innocence claim

The attorney for a Missouri man facing lethal injection next week says he will ask the state Supreme Court to postpone the execution by three or four months to allow more time to investigate his innocence claim

The Independent UK

Indiana justices won't hear 2nd abortion case for now

Indiana’s high court says it will not immediately consider a challenge to the state’s abortion ban that is based on the argument that the law violates some people’s religious freedoms, leaving that decision to an appeals court, at least for now

Tribune News Service

‘We are not going down without a fight.’ Abortion advocates rally as more restrictive laws likely in Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Floridians will rally this weekend in solidarity with abortion rights advocates across the country to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that made access to an abortion a federal right in the United States

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Colorado Supreme Court to review Denver police’s use of 'digital dragnet' in deadly arson case

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court will review the Denver Police Department’s controversial use of a Google search warrant that led officers to identify and arrest three teenagers in connection with the 2020 arson of a Green Valley Ranch home that killed five family members.

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Wisconsin Assembly puts amendment on ballot that would make it harder for violent criminals to get out of jail

The amendment would require a judge to consider a defendant’s potential risk to public safety, including criminal history, when setting bail.

The Independent UK

Indiana's top court hearing challenge to state abortion ban

The fate of Indiana’s Republican-backed abortion ban is going before the state Supreme Court as it hears arguments on whether it violates privacy protections under the state constitution

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South Carolina’s 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional, state Supreme Court rules

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling 3-2 that it violated the state’s constitutional right to privacy.

The Independent UK

Attorney General files intent to appeal judge's bail ruling

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed paperwork with the state Supreme Court to appeal a local judge’s ruling that eliminating cash bail for criminal defendants is unconstitutional

Reason

Judge Rules Illinois' Elimination of Cash Bail Unconstitutional

The governor and attorney general say they’ll appeal to the state Supreme Court.

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Union Station: Federal lawsuits related to public-sector unions: 2022 roundup

Since late 2019, Ballotpedia has tracked close to 200 federal lawsuits related to public-sector unions. Today, we’ll take a look at the state of litigation at the end of 2022 and highlight a selection of cases with recent activity in the district and circuit courts.

The Independent UK

Flint water crisis charges dismissed against ex-Gov. Snyder

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder over the Flint water crisis

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