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Latest News in Access to Justice

• July 29, 2025

  Ga. Urges 11th Circ. To Undo Cash Bail Reform Law Injunction

  Georgia's governor and attorney general encouraged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a district court ruling temporarily blocking enforcement of the state's cash bail reform law, arguing the lower court wrongly found the act of paying bail to be inherently expressive.

• July 29, 2025

  Tenn. Man Deemed Intellectually Disabled Fights Execution

  A Tennessee man convicted of a 1988 triple murder whom the state has since deemed intellectually disabled has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution and fully review his case, his attorney confirmed Tuesday.

• July 29, 2025

  Legal Aid DC To Open Bigger Office In '26 Amid High Demand

  Legal Aid DC plans to relocate and nearly double the size of its Anacostia office in 2026 as it faces growing demand for legal services, the organization announced this week.

• July 25, 2025

  Texas Inmate Seeks To Stop Execution In Shaken Baby Case

  A Texas death row prisoner convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter under the controversial shaken baby syndrome theory has asked the state's top criminal appeals court to halt his upcoming execution, arguing new evidence discredits the diagnosis, his attorney said Friday.

• July 25, 2025

  4th Circ. Denies Inmate's Habeas Despite 'Kafkaesque' Delays

  The Fourth Circuit has affirmed a West Virginia federal court's dismissal of a convicted murderer's bid to get out of prison, finding that although his rights may have been violated by "Kafkaesque," decadeslong delays and ineffective counsel, he was nevertheless able to find resolution in state court.

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