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Ballot measures and the balance of power
Politico
A three-judge panel pressed attorneys on where the peoples’ power bumps up against the power of the Legislature. An attorney for the labor-backed coalition challenging the law warned “the app companies overreached” by “taking away the Legislature’s ability to legislate” with an “essentially impossible” bar to change. A California Department…
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The New York Times
Supreme Court to examine the scope of identity fraud
Courthouse News Service
The American Law Institute Launches Restatement of the Law, Constitutional Torts
American Law Institute
The Right’s Religious Liberty Agenda Is on a Collision Course With Labor Law
The Nation
US Voting Suits Hinge on High Court Case, Ex-DOJ Official Says
Bloomberg Law
You thought the Supreme Court’s last term was bad? Brace yourself
The Washington Post
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Whose Rights Are They, Anyway? Juror Secrecy versus Defendants’ Right to Impartial Trial: SCOTUS to Hear Clinic’s Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, which asks whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury requires defendants in criminal cases to be allowed to introduce testimony from jurors to prove that racial bias infected jury deliberations. At the heart of the case is…
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