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U.S. justices endorse FCC authority in cellphone tower case
ReutersBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments...Tags: Vodafone Group Plc, Federal Communications Commission, John G. Roberts, Jr., Verizon Communications, Crime, Law and Justice
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Supreme Court reinforces FCC authority in disputes over cell tower placements
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell phone towers. The court voted 6-3 Monday to uphold an appeals court ruling in favor...Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, Anthony Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Healthcare Laws
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Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor
NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...
Tags: Paula Poundstone, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Radio, Dining and Drinking
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Gun rights and corresponding responsibilities
For those who oppose commonsense gun safety legislation - including background checks and magazine limits - claiming it threatens their Second Amendment rights, I say gun rights come with responsibilities to protect citizens’ safety. Even...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Shootings, Justice System, Government, Lobbying
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Letters: Parents who care, gay or straight
Re "Experts defend gay parenting," April 6 With more than 40 years of experience in education as a teacher, school director, principal and headmaster, I find Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's concern that the children of same-sex couples may suffer...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Iran
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Supreme Court won't revive Alabama immigration law
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court made it clear Monday that enforcing immigration laws was reserved for the federal government, not the states. By an 8-1 vote, the justices rejected a request from Alabama to revive part of a 2011 law designed to drive...Tags: Trials, American Civil Liberties Union, Justice and Rights, Migration, Career and Workplace
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COLUMN - Can Tsarnaev be ruled an 'enemy combatant'?
Reuters(Ari Melber is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Ari Melber April 22 (Reuters) - Three major legal questions are now swirling around the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Since his dramatic capture Friday night, the public...Tags: Trials, Government, Prosecution, Justice and Rights, U.S. Senate
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Marty Block, Mark Leno, Kevin de Leon, Loni Hancock, U.S. Senate
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Letters: The language of Justice Scalia
Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ethics, Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues
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What now on gun control?
Despite the mounting casualties of gun violence and a brutal massacre that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., the Senate on Wednesday failed to pass a bipartisan compromise to widen background checks for potential purchasers of guns as well as...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Politics, Civil Rights
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Philippines, Trials, Nigeria, Clarence Thomas, Justice and Rights
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