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1 hour, 38 minutes ago ago from SCOTUSblog
This is a new feature on SCOTUSblog. The Supreme Court deals with a lot of technical legal issues. Our posts tend to be written in the same way, so that if you aren’t a lawyer it can be hard to understand exactly what we’re saying. We try not to go too deep into jargon, but it’s hard. As a result, we don’t connect with all of our readers as well as we could. Many of you aren’t lawyers. It’s important that everyone understand the ...
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4 hours ago ago from Supreme Court of Texas Blog | Texas Appellate Law | Texas Supreme Court | Texas Law
The Texas Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments this morning in three cases. The questions include the permissible ratio of punitive-to-actual damages, what duty rule Texas should adopt for ice on commercial property, and whether an heir who discovers paternity years after an estate is closed can file suit to reopen the judgment. Thomas O. Bennett Jr. and James B. Bonham Corp. v. Randy Reynolds , No. 08-0074 ( more info ...
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18 hours ago ago from n e u f n e u f
[click image] . Court won't hear appeal from ex-Gitmo prisoners WASHINGTON The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied religious rights. The justices rejected the appeal without comment Monday. Four British men say they were beaten, shackled in painful stress positions and threatened by dogs during their time at the U.S. naval base in Cuba from 2002 to ...
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18 hours ago ago from The Survival Station
Daniel Tencer Raw Story December 14, 2009 The United States Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by four former Guantanamo inmates who want to sue the US government for torture they say they endured during their stay at the prison camp, a move the inmates' lawyers say could pave the way for future torture practices by the US military. The four plaintiffs Rhuhel Ahmed, Jamal al-Harith, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul say ...
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8 hours ago ago from The Briefcase
Although there are only a handful of cases dismissed each year for speedy trial violations, few things so occupy the minds of judges as the possibility of such an event befalling them. The suggestion that all publicity is good publicity is of little comfort to the judge who goes out to fetch his morning paper and finds his name prominently mentioned in the story above the fold about how Slasher McGee is now a free man, his 43 rape charges ...
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Supreme Court Takes Text-Message Privacy Case
23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a police department violated the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it inspected personal text messages sent and received on a government pager. Related Times Topics: U.S. Supreme Court The case opens a new frontier in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, according to a three-judge panel of an appeals court that ruled in favor of the employee, a ...
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15 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
The Supreme Court will decide whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy for the text messages they send on devices owned by their employers. The case the court accepted Monday involves public employees, but a broadly written decision could hold a blueprint for private-workplace rules in a world in which communication via computers, e-mail and text messages plays a very large role. A federal appeals court in California ...
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