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Arguments in the case known as Glossip v. Oklahoma came nearly a decade after the defendant unsuccessfully challenged the state's method of execution, and after the high court has intervened to stop his execution twice before.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
The high court also weighed whether a conviction should be overturned when the state no longer defends it and will address whether the state’s procedural law prevented Glossip from receiving post-conviction relief.
—Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Oct. 2024
But the state high court on a 4-3 vote avoided that issue entirely by instead concluding that under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, Scardina, a lawyer, was not permitted to sue the baker in 2019 following an earlier administrative process.
—Reuters, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
In order to remove her name from the list, Baloch will need to appeal through order of a high court—a process that can take time.
—Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
The high court also weighed whether a conviction should be overturned when the state no longer defends it and will address whether the state’s procedural law prevented Glossip from receiving post-conviction relief.
—Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Oct. 2024
But the state high court on a 4-3 vote avoided that issue entirely by instead concluding that under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, Scardina, a lawyer, was not permitted to sue the baker in 2019 following an earlier administrative process.
—Reuters, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
In order to remove her name from the list, Baloch will need to appeal through order of a high court—a process that can take time.
—Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
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Kennedy appealed to the Supreme Court on Oct. 21, requesting his name be covered with stickers on the ballots—even though hundreds of thousands of people had already voted—after both state supreme courts ruled his name would stay on the ballot despite suspending his campaign in August.Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement In an emergency appeal, the RNC lawyers said the justices should overturn a recent ruling by Pennsylvania’s state supreme court and forbid the counting of provisional ballots by voters who made a mistake in submitting their mail ballots.David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
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Trump’s lawyers have tried to have the verdicts thrown out, contending the trial court allowed jurors to hear improper and inflammatory evidence.James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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Google will seek to have the trial court’s decision overturned on appeal, and the final judicial resolution of this case is far from certain.Alden Abbott, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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An independent tribunal convened by the ITIA accepted this explanation after consulting with experts and allowed Sinner to successfully appeal the provisional suspension which applied after each positive test, the organization said in August.Issy Ronald, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
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The case will return to the tribunal for reconsideration.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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“High court.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20court. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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