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EDITORIAL: Open government gest another test in Texas House
Fort Worth Star-TelegramIssues of transparency and ethics in government and political campaigns have received mixed reaction from the Texas Legislature this year, but they'll come up again Monday when the House considers an omnibus ethics bill. It should make for some...Tags: Vicki Truitt, Rick Perry, Texas Legislature, Laws, Religion and Belief
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...
Tags: Terrorism, Colleges and Universities, Laws, George Ryan, University of Chicago
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Professor judges high court's ways
The Times LeaderHow the members of the U.S. Supreme Court interpret the Constitution is open to interpretation, and professor Noah Feldman did just that Sunday night, offering his thoughts on the the court's workings. Feldman, the Bemis Professor International Law at...Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Stephen Breyer, Petroleum Industry, Clarence Thomas, Philippines, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...
Tags: Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, John G. Roberts, Jr., Laws, Justice and Rights
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Supreme Court hears custody dispute over adopted girl
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...Tags: Stephen Breyer, Adoption, John G. Roberts, Jr., Justice and Rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chocolate Chip Cookies, John G. Roberts, Jr., Myriad Genetics Incorporated
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Still too many prisoners in California
It may come as a disappointment to Gov. Jerry Brown — but it certainly should not come as a surprise — that a panel of federal judges rejected his request that they return control of California's still-overcrowded prison system to the state....
Tags: Punishment, Jerry Brown, Politics, Trials, Safety of Citizens
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Marriage, Clarence Thomas, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Incest, Gays and Lesbians
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A hint that affirmative action may survive
All but eclipsed by the speculation about how the Supreme Court will rule on same-sex marriage is the fact that the court will also hand down a decision in the next few months about the constitutionality of affirmative action at state universities. But...
Tags: National Government, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Racism
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Justices' Gay Marriage Worries Misplaced
The Hartford CourantIn their recent consideration of legislation banning same-sex marriage, some Supreme Court justices expressed uninformed concern over how little we know about the long-term impact of such unions. Justice Anthony Kennedy said that because same-sex...Tags: Marriage, Wesleyan University, Denmark, Cultural Development, Gays and Lesbians
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Seeking marriage equality
Between now and July, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases dealing with same-sex marriage: one testing the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, the other involving the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage for federal...
Tags: Marriage, John G. Roberts, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Same-Sex Marriage
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