In nearly every jurisdiction, juvenile or family courts will be using the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool to assess whether children can safely be treated in family﹍ike settings to meet federal Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) requirements. Yet, a number of ...
North Carolina's congressional map is unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Republicans, a panel of three federal judges ruled yesterday. The judges said there may even need to be an entirely new map for the midterm elections in November. With several competitive races in the state, that co...
The district lines were crafted and approved by the GOP-led legislature in January after federal courts rejected an initial congressional map adopted in March 2022 for likely violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The court appeared split along ideological lines. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and ...
The Supreme Court in 2019 effectively allowed state lawmakers to draw voting lines to achieve their partisan goals when it ruled that federal courts don't have a role in deciding partisan gerrymandering claims. The redistricting dispute in Georgia was closely watched, as it was one of several b...
since the challenge to the law would have to go through state courts before it could be appealed to the federal system. A white lawyer,James Walker, finally agreed to take the case in December 1891.Martinetdid not consider any of the Black lawyers in New Orleans competent to raise aconstitu...
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It’s another example of the growing interest in using visualisation tools in the legal sector. Initially this is focused on using a map of the US, but other areas are planned, including: Canada and Europe, and also a map based around US Federal District courts. ...
Alabama’s racially gerrymandered map was just the latest Republican-led redistricting scheme to be struck down in the courts as voting rights groups and activists rush to challenge the GOP’s nationwide map-rigging spree—with no help from Democratic lawmakers at the federal level. Alabama’s ...
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