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Latest News in Access to Justice
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June 23, 2026
An exonerated man may continue his suit against the city of Boston that alleges three city police officers, who are now dead, helped convict him of a 1975 murder he didn't commit, a Massachusetts federal court has ruled.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ended a Rastafarian's bid to hold Louisiana prison guards responsible for allegedly violating his religious rights by forcibly shaving off his dreadlocks, ruling a law aimed at preventing religious discrimination at state and local levels can't be used to sue government officials in their individual capacities without their consent.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case over whether a federal inmate can use a 1971 high court precedent to pursue damages from prison officials for allegedly failing to provide adequate medical care after a 2021 prison fight.
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June 18, 2026
A Michigan appeals court panel upheld a parolable life sentence for a woman who was 20 years old when she took part in a 2007 drive-by shooting that left two people dead, finding that recent Michigan Supreme Court rulings limiting life sentences for young offenders do not apply to her case.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear Texas' challenge of a Fifth Circuit decision to allow a man's successive habeas claim under a rare exception for "previously unavailable" claims under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
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