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A Justice league of their own
WASHINGTON -- For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down. As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court's...Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Discrimination, Voting
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The court sides with secrecy
When Congress and the executive branch collude to keep Americans in the dark about whether their privacy is being invaded, the Supreme Court should be willing to lift the veil of secrecy — at least to the extent of forcing the government to...Tags: Lawyers, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Supreme Court questions sides in challenge of Md. DNA law
Maryland's practice of collecting genetic information from people arrested — but not convicted — on serious charges took the national stage Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on what Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. called "perhaps the...
Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Police Arrests, Identification Technology
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From the Boathouse: Houseboat now a true home
Ahoy! Good news for permanently affixed floating homes. The Supreme Court issued a decision Jan. 15, in a 7-2 vote, that a floating home is not a boat, hence is not a vessel. U.S. Code defines the word "vessel" as including all means of water...Tags: International Law, Crime, Law and Justice, Radio, Pacific Ocean, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry
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Notebook: Litmus tests await votes in SD Legislature
It would seem highly unlikely Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg pay attention to the South Dakota House of Representatives. Those three...Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Jeff Monroe, Parties and Movements
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A house is a house, the Supreme Court decides, even if it floats
WASHINGTON — A house that sits on the water is a floating home, not a vessel, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The 7-2 decision upholds laws in California, Washington and other states that say houseboats are governed by local laws applying to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Riviera Beach
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A warrant to draw blood?
The Supreme Court was asked this week to rule that police never need to obtain a search warrant before drawing blood from a motorist stopped for drunk driving. The court should reject that claim. In 2010, Tyler G. McNeely was stopped by a Missouri...
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Medical Procedures and Tests, Crime, Law and Justice, Antonin Scalia
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Disdain all around
WASHINGTON — While accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative justices of "disdain for democracy," Pamela S. Karlan proves herself talented at dispensing disdain. The Stanford law professor is, however, less talented at her chosen task of...Tags: George Will, Microsoft Corporation, Voting, Democracy, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Defending the insanity defense
The Supreme Court refused this week to review the murder conviction of an Idaho man who was prevented by state law from offering an insanity defense. The court's abdication of its responsibility encourages other states to dismantle a central principle...
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Crime, Law and Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Defendants, Laws
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Dog day at the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has a Lemon Test (for church-and-state separation), a Miller Test (obscenity) and a Smith Test (religious freedom), not to mention the late Justice Potter Stewart's pornography test: He knew it when he saw it. To this...
Tags: Lawyers, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Crime, Law and Justice
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Will Wall Street prevail?
Corporate-sponsored groups have launched a campaign of litigation in the lower federal courts challenging the legality of the second major piece of President Barack Obama's legislative program, one that received a lot of attention in last week's first...
Tags: Finance, Barack Obama, Litigation and Regulation, Laws, Wachovia Corp.
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Supreme Court upholds healthcare law as tax measure
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’s healthcare law Thursday, ruling the government may impose tax penalties on persons who do not have health insurance. The court’s long-awaited ruling...
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barack Obama, Judges
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