constitutional
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“While today’s ruling adopts a narrower constitutional framework than Dueñas, it affirms a core principle our work helped advance: Courts must consider a person’s inability to pay before imposing certain court assessments,” Eidmann said.
From Los Angeles Times
In her second term, she introduced a constitutional amendment to reserve 45 seats in the legislature for female MPs, and worked to educate young women - in a country where 70% of them were illiterate.
From BBC
“The violation of a single defendant’s constitutional rights calls into question the fairness of the entire criminal justice system.”
From Los Angeles Times
Florida has at least four proposed constitutional amendments targeting property taxes that are moving through the legislative process.
From MarketWatch
Anam Petit, who served as an immigration judge in Virginia until September, said the administration’s emphasis on speedy case completions has to be balanced against the constitutional right to a fair hearing.
From Los Angeles Times
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