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Al-Hela v. Biden and Due Process at Guantanamo A photo of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House, which houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (NCinDC, https://flic.kr/p/gcj6HV; CC BY-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/) On April 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman Al-Hela’s petition for a rehearing en banc to consider his claim for habeas corpus re...

Jerry LambeMay 25th, 2021, 5:47 pm Arkansas Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R), the lead sponsor of the bill at the center of the ACLU’s lawsuit. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths, claiming the measure violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Republican-controlled state legislature in early April overrode a veto from Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) to pass HB157...

Personal jurisdiction is perhaps one of the most complicated areas in litigation.  Each successive case since International Shoe Co. v. Washington, seems to create more new questions...

It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Overrule Roe v. Wade Commentary The Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of a Mississippi statute banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The court should use this opportunity to liberate America from the long nightmare of nationalized abortion policy. It should overrule Roe v. Wade. Abortion involves profound social and moral issues. This essay, however, focuses on political, judicial, and constitutional issues. Politically, ...

A Time for Courage on the Supreme Court | Opinion O. Carter Snead , Professor of Law and Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the University of Notre Dame On 5/20/21 at 6:30 AM EDT Brown v. Board of Education and the precedent overruled was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which for 58 years had allowed states to engage in "separate but equal" discrimination on the basis of race. On May 17, 2021, the Court agreed to hear a dispute regarding a younger line of pr...

Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Lawsuit to Block Lubbock, Texas Ordinance Outlawing Abortion 19 May 2021 Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas have filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Lubbock after its citizens voted May 1 to become a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” The abortion industry giant and the civil rights organization claim the ordinance Lubbock’s citizens approved to make abortion illegal within the city’s limits is u...

The Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia, Washington. | Wikimedia Commons/Drums600 A licensed therapist is suing Washington state over its ban on sexual orientation counseling for minors, a practice described by critics as “conversion therapy.”  In a lawsuit filed last Thursday in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington at Tacoma, licensed marriage and family therapist Brian Tingley contends that Senate Bill 5722 constitutes a “denial of free speech rights"...

The Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia, Washington. | Wikimedia Commons/Drums600 A licensed therapist is suing Washington state over its ban on sexual orientation counseling for minors, a practice described by critics as “conversion therapy.”  In a lawsuit filed last Thursday in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington at Tacoma, licensed marriage and family therapist Brian Tingley contends that Senate Bill 5722 constitutes a “denial of free s...

Without any details, how are advisors expected to advise their clients today? As most estate planners are aware by now, tax bills have been introduced by U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders, Chris Van Hollen and others that, when aggregated, essentially eliminate every significant estate-planning tool or advantage advisors and their clients currently possess, including an historically high estate and gift tax exemption, stepped-up income tax basis at death and minority interest discounts. And as p...

Font Size: Planned Parenthood sued on Monday a Texas city that had declared itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services and Dr. G. Sealy Massingill sued the city Monday night, alleging the “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion” violates the Fourteenth Amendment. “It imposes substantial liability on anyone who procures, performs, aids, or abets an abortion in Lubbock, be it a doctor, nurse, relative, friend, or stranger,” the complai...