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How 'cruel and unusual punishment' and 'excessive fines' clauses apply to Tennessee
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1789. Amendment VIII states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed ...
A question of 'cruel and unusual punishment' in Louisiana
Chicago Sun-Times· 3 days agoOates’ brutal sentence for perjury in 1685 is partly the reason the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual</ ...
Officials and community leaders anxiously await SCOTUS homelessness ruling
CBS News· 1 day agoAt stake for SCOTUS is the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping, and whether...
Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJohnson. Lower courts have ruled that arresting someone for sleeping outside when there are no free...
Here are the major cases the Supreme Court will decide on in the coming weeks - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoThe Supreme Court preserved access to a commonly used abortion medication, mifepristone, rejecting a...
Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
The Economist· 1 day agoDelisha Boyd is the product of a rape. Ms Boyd, a black Democratic state representative from New Orleans, told her story publicly for the first time when...
Your Guide to This Year’s Major Supreme Court Cases
Capital B via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHer words sounded ominous, like a warning. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the bench’s most senior liberal member, recently recalled that, on...
The Supreme Court Could Make Encampment Sweeps Even More Dangerous
The Nation· 4 days agoLate last March, Christina Del Santo pitched a tent on a marshy plot of land by Connecticut’s...
Defense lawyers want May 14 killer exempted from the death penalty
The Buffalo News· 3 days agoLawyers for the shooter who killed 10 people at a Tops grocery store in 2022 have asked for a...
Sentence upheld for habitual offender who spat at police during domestic violence arrest
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"As such, no abuse of discretion is shown." A lengthy prison sentence Pearson's appellate attorneys...