The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) established the current regime under which federal courts address petitions for a writ of habeas corpus by state prisoners.
January
2026
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A deaf man is admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery. The hospital, unable to locate an available American Sign Language interpreter, relies on the man’s children to communicate with him.
At the end of the October 2014 term, the Supreme Court decided a seemingly mundane case involving municipal sign ordinances.
Magistrate judges are “nothing less than indispensable” to the modern judicial system.