Nigerian-American Bar Association

05/03/2022

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.

05/02/2022

Supreme Court says Boston violated First Amendment rights of group seeking to raise a Christian flag outside City Hall

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Boston violated the First Amendment rights of a group seeking to briefly raise a Christian flag atop a city flagpole outside of City Hall as a part of a city program celebrating Boston's greater community.

04/29/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/us/politics/supreme-court-discrimination-emotional-harm.amp.html

Splitting 6 to 3, the court ruled that facilities receiving federal money cannot be sued under four federal laws for discrimination that causes emotional distress.

04/20/2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093566982/florida-mask-mandate-judge-kathryn-mizelle?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

Mizelle was nominated by former President Donald Trump in 2020 at age 33. The American Bar Association said at the time she wasn't qualified because she hadn't been practicing law for long enough.

04/08/2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed as First Black Woman on US Supreme Court

04/08/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html

The vote was a bipartisan rejection of Republican attempts to paint her as a liberal extremist who had coddled criminals.

04/05/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/us/politics/supreme-court-police-malicious-prosecution.html

Plaintiffs need show only that the charges against them were dropped, the majority said, to satisfy a requirement that they had obtained a “favorable termination” of the prosecution.

12/13/2021

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/12/difference-between-rittenhouse-and-mcmichael-bryan-verdicts/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=hu-linkedinuniversity-general&utm_medium=social

Caroline Light says the different rulings in the Rittenhouse, McMichael-Bryan cases come down to the defenses’ level of success in making the perpetrator seem like the victim.

11/19/2021

What Happens When a Court Goes Rogue?

The Supreme Court has empowered a lower court that is out of control.

09/29/2021

Meet Clarence Moses, A Man Who Was Sentenced To 48 Years In Prison For Brutally Defiling A Woman In Her Dream.

In 1988, Clarence was arrested by the police as a r**e suspect.
A hospitalized woman claimed she had been brutally r**ed, by a black man. This woman had returned home drunk and woke up with bruises the next day. With no evidence for how she ended up with bruises or how someone r**ed her, she accused Clarence of ra**ng her.

More than a day after the assault, while in the hospital, the woman identified Clarence as her attacker, saying his face came to her in a dream.

Clarence Moses-EL was convicted and sentenced to 48 years in prison for ra**ng and assaulting a woman when she returned home from a night of drinking, despite no further evidence other than her bruises and her dream.

Clarence had long claimed he was innocent.

But his efforts to appeal his conviction were unsuccessful, in part because Denver police threw away DNA evidence from the scene, according to reports.

Luckily, in December 2013, while serving his 48-year prison sentence, Clarence received a letter from another man, L.C Jackson.

In the letter, Jackson said he couldn't believe Clarence had been accused of ra**ng the same woman Jackson “ had s*x” with the very same night. Jackson wrote:

'I really don't know what to say to you, but let's start by bringing what was done in the dark into the light,' Jackson wrote, according to court documents. 'I have a lot on my heart.'

This confession letter led to a court hearing in July, where Jackson testified that he lost his temper during s*x with the woman and hit her in the face. He admitted to it all. Although it wasn't necessarily a r**e.

Clarence had already spent 28 years of his 48-year sentence in prison

09/28/2021

https://time.com/6101900/greyhound-lawsuit-immigration-sweeps/

The bus company allowed border agents to board buses in Washington state and failed to warn customers of the sweeps

07/08/2021

https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-courts-supreme-courts-immigration-government-and-politics-ac1d5e8b55c9d5f0ac5f2d4316a6c6aa

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries.

06/27/2021

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-25/supreme-court-liberal-justices-join-clarence-thomas-on-lawsuit-ruling-dissent?utm_source=url_link&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm

Liberals join Clarence Thomas in the dissent, but for different reasons.

06/19/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/obamacare-supreme-court.amp.html

The court sidestepped the larger issue in the case, whether the 2010 health care law can stand without a provision that required most Americans to obtain insurance or pay a penalty.

06/04/2021

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/famed-criminal-defense-attorney-and-member-of-o-j-simpson-dream-team-dead-at-87/

F. Lee Bailey, the outspoken and pugilistic defense attorney widely credited as the man who secured a "not guilty" verdict for NFL star O.J. Simpson, died in Georgia on Thursday at the age of 87.

04/07/2021

At 21, Brazilian Man Is Set to Be One of Youngest Admitted to New York State Bar in Decades

Mateus Costa-Ribeiro’s life is accelerated: He has already graduated from law school, won a case before Brazil’s highest court and completed a master’s degree from Harvard.

03/16/2021

Eliminate the Bar Exam for Lawyers?

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/eliminate-the-bar-exam-for-lawyers-11615847973

The disadvantaged pay the price for an elitist legal system.