Supreme Court to take on controversial election-law case : NPR

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The independent state legislature theory was first invoked by three conservative US Supreme Court justices in the celebrated Bush v. Gore case that handed the 2000 election victory to George W. Bush.

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The independent state legislature theory was first invoked by three conservative US Supreme Court justices in the celebrated Bush v. Gore case that handed the 2000 election victory to George W. Bush.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change how federal elections are conducted. At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by state courts and state constitutions.

The theory, known as the “independent state legislature theory,” stems from the election clause in Article I of the Constitution. It says, “The times, places

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New California plastics law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom

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The law requires that single-use packaging and plastic single-use food serviceware be recyclable or compostable by 2032. It also requires by 2032 a 25% reduction in the sales of plastic packaging and for 65% of all single-use plastic packaging to be recycled. And it establishes an accountability group, which will include industry representatives, to run a new recycling program overseen by the state.

“Our kids deserve a future free of plastic waste and all its dangerous impacts, everything from clogging our oceans to killing animals — contaminating the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat,” Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement. “No more.”

Stakeholders negotiated the language around the bill, trying to design a law that would significantly cut plastic production, ramp up recycling and composting and shift the burden of plastics pollution to industry.

Newsom signed the law just as the US Supreme
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Doctors face unprecedented legal risks after Roe overturn

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This is a MedPage Today story.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade, doctors across the country are facing an array of legal questions and concerns that are so new and uncertain they once seemed out of the realm of possibility, according to experts.

From determining whether they can provide care when the life of the mother is at risk and whether they must report a patient for a self-induced abortion, to considering how to code certain medical treatments and how to avoid allegations of aiding and abetting, doctors – – and other healthcare providers and staff — are finding themselves caught in a precarious legal framework that is still in flux.

“It is a horrible situation to put doctors in, who really just want to help patients,” Jessie Hill, of Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, told MedPage Today.

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UK Policy To Permit Secret Agents To Commit Crimes Is Lawful, Tribunal Guidelines

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Criminal LawIn Canada, a criminal record just isn’t issued when a person is acquitted of against the law that they were charged with. So what is it that the State must show in an effort to maintain the defendant from being admitted to bail and then being able to bond out in the course of the pre-trial course of? The State must prove that the offense is a capital offense i.e., capital or first degree intentional murder (could also be punished by the dying penalty); and capital sexual battery (sexual penetration on a baby under 12 years previous). Or, the State must prove that the offense is one that is punishable by life imprisonment. These very severe offenses are listed in Florida Statute section 907.041. Once the State proves that the charged offense is either a capital offense or one punishable by life imprisonment, then the State has the burden to … Read more

Spring 2022 Semester Law Graduation at Georgia State University

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Jul. 2—Georgia State University’s College of Law conferred degrees to more than 150 students at the end of the spring 2022 semester. Law graduates were honored during the college’s hooding ceremony on May 13 at Center Parc Stadium.

Local Law graduates were:

— Daniela Hoolihan of Smyrna (30080), who earned a Master of Laws degree in the Foreign Bar Track concentration

— Narges Nekooei of Atlanta (30339), who earned a Master of Laws degree in the Foreign Bar Track concentration

— Dagem Araya of Atlanta (30339), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Othman Awad of Marietta (30064), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Shykeena Blanton of Athens (30606), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Melissa Davies of Smyrna (30082), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Nicole Deloach of Mableton (30126), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Robert Evans of Mableton

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