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- Impact of health care challenge in Supreme Court on small businessesThe Supreme Court will hear the National Federation of Independent Business’ petition to rule on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law. The outcome could have a significant impact on costs, but will provide certainty.
- Supreme Court Mulls Hearing a Texas Affirmative Action CaseThe Washington Post is reporting that on top of cases on Obamacare, immigration law, and a Texas redistricting case, the Supreme Court is considering hearing the case of a Sugarland, Texas woman who claims racial discrimination in college admissions.
- Immigration Law Becomes Political Battle in Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments for and against Arizona's tough immigration.
- Immigration Expert Says Supreme Court Won't Side with ArizonaHigh Court could determine whether Arizona can enforce its controversial illegal immigration law by June.
- Supreme Court Has Conflict of Interest in the Affordable Health Care LawSupreme Court Justices Kagan, Thomas, and Scalia make the news because they will not recuse themselves from reviewing the Affordable Health Care Act. Kagan should recuse herself because of her former position, Thomas because of his wife's firm.
- Supreme Court to Hear Obamacare ChallengeThe 26 state challenge to the Constitutionality of Obamacare will be heard by the Supreme Court in 2012.
- Eyewitness Evidence on Trial at the Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a case that could change the way courts allow eyewitness testimony in court and whether suggestive behavior by police may taint the reliability of an eyewitness.
- Prison OvercrowdingAmerican courts and authorities are following the Supreme Court's decision in Brown versus Plata.
- Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument on the Constitutionality of GPS TrackersThe Justice Department feels that if your car is on a Public road then they have the authority to place a GPS Tracker on your vehicle to follow all you movement without the benefit of a warrant. The decision on this case is expected in June 2012
Supreme Court Legalizes Downloading MusicThe United State Supreme Court has refused an appeal that would have made downloading music an infringement of federal copyright law. Take that, Metallica!- White House Prods Supreme Court to Rule on Health Care ReformThe Justice Department recently petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care reform legislation.
A Clear and Present Danger: The First Amendment Vs. The Supreme CourtThe United States entered WWI in 1917 but was ill-prepared to meet the demands of a ready-made military base. The Conscription Act and the Espionage Act set the stage for the initial challenge to the First Amendment in front of the Supreme Court.- Disorderly ConductScenarios of disorderly conduct.
- Bush War Crimes, Supreme Court's Constitutional Criminality and the End of the GOPShort Form News Digest
- Why Wal-Mart's Women Lost in the Supreme CourtOver 1 million women employees brought the largest class action in United States history against Wal-Mar for alleged discrimination against women in pay, promotions, and career advancement. Unfortunately, they lost. Find out why, here...
- Supreme Court Overturns Calif. Video Game Ban, Rules in Favor of Common SenseThe Supreme Court ruled Monday that video games fall under free speech protection. Here are three things I find notable about this decision as an avid video gamer.
- Cheers to Supreme Court California Video Game Ban DecisionIs it not the parents' responsibility to monitor what their children are being exposed to? Asking the government to engage in the censorship business in place of good parenting is ridiculous.
- California Video Game Ban Struck Down by Supreme Court as UnconstitutionalCalifornia wanted to restrict the sale or rental of violent video games to children. The Supreme Court ruled that this is unconstitutional.
- Quick-Hit Reaction: Supreme Court Dismisses Landmark Case Against Wal-MartThe Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart which would have been the largest sexual discrimination lawsuit ever.
U.S. Supreme Court Clears Path for Arizona Employer Sanctions Lawin a ruling that SB 1070 proponents have lauded as an indication that the SCOTUS will overturn lower court rulings on SB1070, the Court upholds another controversial Arizona law.- Quick-Hit Reaction: Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Immigration LawThe Supreme Court upheld the Arizona immigration law Thursday, allowing the state to shut down businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Here are three notable aspects of this decision.
- Supreme Court Upholds Ariz. Immigration Law, Takes Step Back in HistorySince the Supreme Court has upheld Arizona's strict immigration law that penalized business owners for hiring illegal immigrants, everyone has an opinion. If illegal immigrants should have to go back where they came from, so should we.
The New Deal and the Four Horsemen of ReactionConstitutionalist Justices McReynolds, Sutherland, Butler and Van Devanter blocked Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal for several years. Each very opinionated and one prejudiced against Jews, the leftist press tagged them as the Four Horsemen.
Supreme Court: A Constitutional ConventionAre we going to stand by and watch as our government erodes our constitutional rights? It seems that the Supreme Court believes that they can change the constitution however they want and we are letting them.- The U.S. Deportation of Gay Spouses: Another Problem for the Supreme CourtIt may only be a matter of time where same-sex unions will force the Supreme Court to usher in a mandate that will give all gay men and women equal benefits that the majority of Americans hold dear.
- Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Heads for Heated Ballot ReviewHaving a recount of a hotly contested Supreme Court election in Wisconsin is one thing. But having it turn on newly discovered ballots, and inspire charges of GOP voter fraud, stands to turn the state into a greater battleground than ever.
- Wisconsin Election Results 2011 Undecided for State Supreme CourtWisconsin's most publicized state Supreme Court election in some time still isn't settled. Sitting Justice David Prosser or challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg could decide the fate of the infamous budget bill.
Supreme Court Halts Two Southwest ExecutionsThe U.S. Supreme Court is under attack of death penalty cases that are hitting home for many abolitionists fighting to repeal these laws. Cases are being blocked and reviewed to see if there are legal reasons to stop these executions.
Juvenile Court Judges' Race Going to Supreme Court on Taxpayer's DimeHamilton County juvenile court judges' race headed to the Supreme court with tax payers picking up the tab
The Life and Legacy of Louis D. BrandeisLouis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) was a highly significant and influential Jewish lawyer and an associate justice of the United States Supreme court whose work greatly contributed to and further developed the legal concept of "Sociological Jurisprudence".
Supreme Court Finds in Favor of WestboroBy an eight to one vote, the Supreme Court has found in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Snyder v Phelps, which pitted the father of a fallen Marine against a church whose main doctrine appears to be hating gay people and Catholics.- Why Supreme Court Justices Should Not Have a Code of EthicsThe 100 law professors who recently wrote a letter proposing an enforceable code of ethics for Supreme Court justices should know better.
- Supreme Court Upholds Campaign Finance LawsThe Supreme Court rejected an appeal by an organization that argued they were exempt from campaign finance disclosure laws because the messages were educational, rather than political.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and the Supreme CourtThis article provides information on the history of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Supreme Court of the United States. Jehovah's Witnesess fought legal battles up to the present that paved the way for greater freedom of worship and civil liberties.
- A Lawyer Should Not Be Permitted to Lie in Front of the Ohio Supreme CourtA lawyer explains his first hand experience with the lawyer disciplinary system.
Rahm Emanuel Asking Illinois Supreme Court for Help to Get on Ballot in His Bid for MayorRahm Emanuel is currently not on the ballot for the mayoral election for Chicago. He is trying to get the Illinois Supreme Court to intervene; will they?
President Lyndon Johnson's Choice: Thurgood Marshall - the First African American on the Supreme CourtIn 1967, Thurgood Marshall, the attorney who had successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Education case among others before the Supreme Court, was chosen to join the Supreme Court itself as its first African American Justice.- Smith v. Bayer: Supreme Court Looks into Class Action IssuesThe Supreme Court is called upon to decide whether the 8th Circuit erred in barring a state class action certification petition on the grounds of preclusion.
- Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics: Supreme Court to Decide on Workplace Retaliation Against Verbal ComplaintsThe court will determine whether the FSLA protections for employees who have filed complaints encompass oral complaints.
- AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion: Supreme Court to Rule on Consumers' Class Action RightsThis case will determine how claims may be handled when a consumer alleges that a company is wrongfully taking small sums of money from large numbers of people.
