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/ Jamala Rogers, far left, executive director of the Organization for Black Struggle, delivers petitions supporting a new trial for Lamar Johnson to Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt in 2019.
Last week, the Missouri Supreme Court dealt another blow to advocates seeking to free Lamar Johnson from prison. The St. Louis man has served 26 years for a murder that the St. Louis Circuit Attorney whose office originally prosecuted the case now says he didn’t commit.
But the prosecutor’s office and advocates alike have been stymied by legal procedure. The Supreme Court on March 2 unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling that Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner does not have the right to motion for a new trial. The request, its decision affirmed, came decades too late.
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Sarah T. Hughes. (Photo via Archives Department/State Bar of Texas)
March is Women’s History Month. Despite the disheartening news that women and people of color continue to advance incrementally in the profession (and that’s politely putting lipstick on a pig), there have always been women lawyers and judges fighting challenging odds to make a difference. Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, and most recently, Amy Coney Barrett. Four women out of nine presently sitting on the Court. Until 30 years ago there were none. And witness Vice President Kamala Harris, a woman lawyer and a BIPOC.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) – Protection from lawsuits for religious institutions in an anti-discrimination law is OK, the Washington Supreme Court recently ruled, but a Seattle group is not free from litigation yet for refusing to hire a gay man for its open lawyer position.
The defendant in attorney Matthew Woods’ lawsuit, which had failed at the trial court level, might not qualify for the exception, a March 4 opinion written by Justice Barbara Madsen that refused to strike down the state legislature’s work on the Washington Law Against Discrimination.
Religious nonprofits are not considered employers for the purposes of the WLAD and are therefore exempt from litigation. The decision in Woods’ case on the constitutionality of the exemption was in line with previous challenges.