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Immunity Denied To Deputies Who Tried To Turn Muscular Dystrophy Into Reasonable Suspicion

Courts are cool with pretextual stops. As long as a cop can make up a reasonably good excuse for pulling someone over, they can start casting their lines in hopes of bigger fish. Given enough time and bullshit, cops can often talk people into warrantless

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Morning Docket: 11.18.22

* Here's a snippet of what Yale Law thinks about race conscious admissions. [Yale Daily News] * Will Cornell opt out a la Yale and Harvard? Your guess is as good as mine. [Cornell Sun] * No need to be curious about UC Berkeley though. [WSJ] * Brittney Gri

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Judge Didn’t Believe Lawyer Had A Stroke. But He Did… Because NO ONE FAKES A STROKE!

The most obvious follow-up. The post Judge Didn’t Believe Lawyer Had A Stroke. But He Did… Because NO ONE FAKES A STROKE! appeared first on Above the Law.

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Justices allow another execution to proceed, rejecting final appeal of Oklahoma man

For the fourth time in 24 hours, the Supreme Court declined to block an execution. On Thursday morning, the justices rejected a plea from Oklahoma inmate Richard Fairchild, who had asked the justices to put his execution on hold to give him time to appeal

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