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Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418 (1979), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that set the standard for involuntary commitment for treatment by raising the burden of proof required to commit persons for psychiatric treatment from the usual civil burden of proof of "preponderance of the evidence" to "clear and convincing evidence".
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
The case was first filed in a state district court before the city moved it to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas in 2017. [2] The district court selected to review the matter under intermediate scrutiny based on Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, rather than the strict scrutiny content-based standard of Reed v.
At the time, First Assistant Attorney General of Texas Brent Webster decried Mangrum's decision as "an activist Austin judge’s attempt to override Texas abortion laws." [8] [10] On November 28, 2023, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zurawski. By this time, the number of plaintiffs in the case had increased to 22: 20 women ...
This case occurred in California, but its arguments, based on the rights to equal protection and due process, could be applied elsewhere in the United States. Earlier that same year in Texas, the attorney general had also released a statement against racial segregation [ 4 ] showing that some momentum had begun to shift, at least in public ...
Congress passed the law in 2021, later overriding a veto by former President Donald Trump. After Trump’s veto was overridden, Texas Top Shop, Inc., et al., sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick ...
To obtain a land grant, it must be authorized under either the national constitution or laws, or the laws of the Mexican government prior to independence. Saddler v. Republic, Dallam 610 (1844). Although it takes more than one to be in an affray, a conviction against one will stand even if the others are acquitted. Binge v. Smith, Dallam 616 ...
Moody and Paxton were challenges to two state statutes – enacted in Florida and Texas, respectively – that sought to limit this moderation. In July 2024, the justices vacated the lower-court decisions in both cases due to both courts failing to perform a full First Amendment assessment of the laws, and remanded them for further consideration.