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Supreme Court considers landmark equality cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has devoted decades to giving meaning to the Constitution's promise of equality for all before the law. Now, as the court heads into the final two weeks of this year's term, the justices may be about to close one...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Racism, Voting, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those rulings have done little to settle political arguments over abortion and guns....
Tags: Abortion Issue, Constitutional Issues, Regional Authority, Andrew Cuomo, Judges
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Disneyland takes Tomorrowland into Fantasyland with new prices
Psst, hey buddy, spare $100 so I can go to Disneyland? That’s right, the price to visit the Magic (Moneymaking) Kingdom has gone up again. For those over 10, it’s now $92 for a day pass to either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure....Tags: Disneyland Park, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Amusement and Theme Parks
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Letters: Scalia's invective
Re "Court lifts time limit on appeals," May 29 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's intemperate use of invective — "blooper reel," "feeble" and "bizarre" — against the majority opinion written by a fellow justice (in this case the...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Antonin Scalia
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Cass R. Sunstein: Biggest Supreme court ruling you haven't heard of
The Supreme Court has yet to decide this year's attention-grabbing cases on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. But last week, a divided court decided Arlington v. FCC, an important victory for Barack Obama's administration...Tags: Federal Communications Commission, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Antonin Scalia, Justice System, U.S. Congress
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Supreme Court lifts time limit on some 'actual innocence' appeals
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a second chance Tuesday to prisoners who come up with strong new evidence of their innocence, but who have waited too long to file an appeal. In a 5-4 decision, the justices lifted the one-year time limit for...
Tags: Criminals, Antonin Scalia, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Judges
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The growing case for life
Paul GreenbergThe jurisprudence of Her Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, may be only mediocre at best, but her candor deserves the highest praise. Every few years she'll pull back the judicial curtain and tell the rest of us what...Tags: Social Issues, The New York Times, University of Chicago, Crime, Law and Justice, Science and Technology
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Gosnell's 'clinic of horrors'
It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of...Tags: Social Issues, Demerol (drug), Trials, U.S. Congress, The Washington Post
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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: Healthcare Laws, Antonin Scalia, Justice System, Barack Obama, Book
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Supreme Court limits towing firms
WASHINGTON — A New Hampshire man who had his car towed when he was in a hospital recovering from a heart attack and the amputation of his left foot won a measure of justice at the U.S. Supreme Court. In a 9-0 decision released Monday, the court...Tags: Port of Los Angeles, Heart Attack, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: Social Issues, U.S. Air Force, American Civil Liberties Union, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Chicago Law School
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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: Companies and Corporations, Mitt Romney, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Sports, Plant Openings
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