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Petteway v. Galveston County [c] 86 F.4th 1146 (5th Cir. 2023) is a United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit case in which the court held that racial and ethnic groups may not aggregate their populations in Voting Rights Act violation claims. The decision overrules the court's prior decision in Campos v. City of Baytown (1988).
Rebecca Louise Pennell (born 1971) [1] is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. She served as a judge of the Washington Court of Appeals from 2016 to 2024.
Noting that the last overhaul of the California ethics rules was in 1992, in the early 2000s the State Bar of California formed a Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct tasked with considering intervening changes in the law and the findings of the ABA's Ethics 2000 Commission. [46]
President Joe Biden on Monday proposed major changes for the U.S. Supreme Court: an enforceable code of ethics, term limits for justices and a constitutional amendment that would limit the ...
The legislation approved 79-34 by the House had been roundly criticized by ethics officials, who say the change – coupled with another limiting the power of city and county ethics panels ...
The code was issued during a time when the court faced great criticism, especially around the conduct of justice Clarence Thomas.It was shown that he received undisclosed gifts of luxury travel [2] and that he was involved with cases that were related to the political activities of his wife, Ginni Thomas, who worked to overturn the 2020 election results in the weeks leading up to the January 6 ...
A federal judge apologized after he was found to have violated the judiciary’s code of conduct for publishing an op-ed earlier this year criticizing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over a ...
The Maceo Organization, also known as the Maceo Syndicate, was a criminal organization, that ran Galveston, Texas politically and criminally throughout most of Galveston's open era. The organization's bosses, Sam and Rosario Maceo , operated illegal gambling , prostitution , bootlegging and racketeering activities.