By Ryan Shepard
May 19, 2021
The United States Supreme Court has voted unanimously to restrict law enforcement officer s ability to search homes without a warrant.
The Supreme Court s decision pertains to a case involving a couple named
Edward and
Kim Cinaglia. Kim Cinaglia alleges that things escalated when Edward Cinaglia asked him to take a gun from their house and shoot him. From there, Edward Cinaglia left their home in a frustrated and volatile state. She also left the home and stayed in a motel, but she hid his gun before she left. One day later, Kim attempted to contact Edward, but he did not answer. In response, she asked the police to escort her home because she was fearful he may have hurt himself. After arriving, police officers found Edward and sent him for a psychological evaluation. While he was being evaluated, officers searched his home and confiscated his weapons.
The United States Supreme Court has issued four opinions. In Edwards v. Vannoy the court held that the jury-unanimity rule announced in Ramos v. Louisiana does
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In December 2015, we
wrote about the many failed health insurance co-ops created under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), and the impact of those failures on providers and other creditors, consumers, and taxpayers. At that time, co-ops across the country had more than one million enrollees. As of January 2021, there were roughly
120,000 enrollees in three remaining co-op plans. Nonprofit co-op insurers were intended to increase competition and provide less expensive coverage to consumers. However, low prices, lack of adequate government funding, restrictions on the use of federal loans for marketing, and low risk corridor payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created financial challenges for these insurance plans
In 2018, we, the voters of Louisiana, did the right thing. However, our job is not done.
In 2018, we passed a constitutional amendment to require criminal juries in Louisiana to vote unanimously to convict those accused of committing crimes. No longer will a Louisiana citizen be imprisoned in cases where at least one juror had reasonable doubt.
This decision ended a practice that was followed only in Louisiana and Oregon. However, this decision applied only to convictions that were not yet final in the legal sense. Because of how the constitutional amendment was worded, it does not apply to those who had been convicted in the past, unless their case was still on direct appeal.