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Latest News in Access to Justice
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September 18, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has reversed class certification for a group of transgender incarcerated people, finding that they had not shown that the Oregon Department of Corrections has systemically targeted trans women by housing them in male-only facilities.
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September 18, 2026
A South Dakota federal judge on Friday denied as moot a League of Women Voters bid to force state election officials to correct inaccurate notices sent to new registrants limited to voting in federal elections, finding that the secretary of state adopted every change the challengers requested and is unlikely to reverse course before the November election.
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September 18, 2026
Jeffery Lee, a 49-year-old Alabama prisoner on death row who had elected to be executed via nitrogen gas — a method a federal judge found earlier this year would violate his constitutional rights — was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his bid for an emergency stay.
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September 17, 2026
The Michigan Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it is launching a pilot project, based on recent reforms in Utah and Arizona, that will allow trained nonlawyers to provide in-court support to people who cannot afford a lawyer in civil cases.
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September 16, 2026
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday ruled that police cannot conduct warrantless strip searches outside of jails or prisons absent consent or an emergency, but found that Pennsylvania officers who unconstitutionally searched a man enjoy qualified immunity from his civil rights claims because the limitation was not clearly established at the time.
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