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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2022
Bans Off Our Bodies Protest Sign

Reproductive Freedom

Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization

The case concerns the constitutionality of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The state used the case as a vehicle to ask the Supreme Court to take away the federal constitutional right to abortion it first recognized 50 years before in Roe v. Wade. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States accepted the state鈥檚 invitation and overturned Roe eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
FBI v. Fazaga Plaintiffs

Privacy & Technology

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FBI v. Fazaga

In a case scheduled to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 8, 2021, three Muslim Americans are challenging the FBI鈥檚 secret spying on them and their communities based on their religion, in violation of the Constitution and federal law. In what will likely be a landmark case, the plaintiffs 鈥 Yassir Fazaga, Ali Uddin Malik, and Yasser Abdelrahim 鈥 insist that the FBI cannot escape accountability for violating their religious freedom by invoking 鈥渟tate secrets.鈥 The plaintiffs are represented by the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, the 桃子视频of Southern California, the 桃子视频, the Council for American Islamic Relations, and the law firm of Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
RFP attorneys Alexa Kolbi-Molinas and Andrew Beck heading towards the Supreme Court to argue the case.

Reproductive Freedom

Cameron v. EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center

In 2018, the 桃子视频 and the 桃子视频of Kentucky filed a suit on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers and their patients challenging a state law banning physicians from providing a safe and medically proven abortion method called dilation and evacuation, or 鈥淒&E.鈥 If it were to take effect, this law would prevent many patients from being able to obtain an abortion altogether. After two courts held that the law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled in March 2022 that Kentucky Attorney General Cameron can continue his pursuit to push abortion out of reach by intervening in the underlying challenge to an abortion ban, which is proceeding in a lower court.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2022
Garland v. Gonzalez

Immigrants' Rights

Garland v. Gonzalez

Whether the Immigration and Nationality Act requires a bond hearing for immigrants subject to prolonged detention while seeking protection in the U.S. from persecution or torture.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2021
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

Reproductive Freedom

Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

The 桃子视频, the 桃子视频of Texas, and coalition partners filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of abortion providers and funds on July 13, 2021, challenging S.B. 8, a Texas law allowing private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion as early as six weeks in pregnancy鈥攂efore many know they are pregnant. The ACLU鈥檚 challenge made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court three times in as many months. After hearing oral arguments in the case, the Court issued a decision on December 10, 2021, that ended the most promising pathways to blocking the ban. The Supreme Court鈥檚 decision makes it more difficult to obtain adequate relief from the courts and gives states the green light to ban abortion using bounty-hunting schemes. Texas鈥 abortion ban will remain in effect until relief can be secured from a court.
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All Cases

25 Supreme Court Cases during the 2021 Term

United States v. Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah)
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022

National Security

United States v. Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah)

Whether the district court may order two CIA contractors who devised and implemented the post-9/11 torture program to testify (as they have done twice before) about nonprivileged information; or if, instead, the Government may prohibit disclosure of even nonprivileged information by invoking the state secrets doctrine.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
United States v. Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah)

National Security

United States v. Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah)

Whether the district court may order two CIA contractors who devised and implemented the post-9/11 torture program to testify (as they have done twice before) about nonprivileged information; or if, instead, the Government may prohibit disclosure of even nonprivileged information by invoking the state secrets doctrine.
United States V. Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah). Explore Case.
Weir et al v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022

Criminal Law Reform

Weir et al v. United States

Does Congress have authority to criminalize conduct on the high seas by a foreign national on a foreign boat having no connection with the United States
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022
Weir et al v. United States

Criminal Law Reform

Weir et al v. United States

Does Congress have authority to criminalize conduct on the high seas by a foreign national on a foreign boat having no connection with the United States
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Egbert v. Boule
U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022

Human Rights

Egbert v. Boule

Whether a damages remedy should be available when a federal agent violated the plaintiff鈥檚 First and Fourth Amendment rights by entering private property without a warrant, throwing the plaintiff to the ground without justification, and then retaliated against him for exercising his right to seek redress from the government.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022
Egbert v. Boule

Human Rights

Egbert v. Boule

Whether a damages remedy should be available when a federal agent violated the plaintiff鈥檚 First and Fourth Amendment rights by entering private property without a warrant, throwing the plaintiff to the ground without justification, and then retaliated against him for exercising his right to seek redress from the government.
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United States v. Tsarnaev
U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022

Capital Punishment

United States v. Tsarnaev

Whether the district court committed reversible error in excluding mitigating evidence that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev鈥檚 older brother had previously committed three brutal murders in the name of jihad, where the defense鈥檚 central mitigation theory was that he had acted under his brother鈥檚 influence and had a lesser role in the offense.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022
United States v. Tsarnaev

Capital Punishment

United States v. Tsarnaev

Whether the district court committed reversible error in excluding mitigating evidence that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev鈥檚 older brother had previously committed three brutal murders in the name of jihad, where the defense鈥檚 central mitigation theory was that he had acted under his brother鈥檚 influence and had a lesser role in the offense.
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Hemphill v. New York
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2022

Criminal Law Reform

Hemphill v. New York

Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant who opens the door to responsive evidence also forfeits his right to exclude evidence otherwise barred by the Constitution鈥檚 Confrontation Clause.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2022
Hemphill v. New York

Criminal Law Reform

Hemphill v. New York

Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant who opens the door to responsive evidence also forfeits his right to exclude evidence otherwise barred by the Constitution鈥檚 Confrontation Clause.
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