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Senate Set to Vote on Another Anti-gun Judge
9 hours ago ago from AmmoLand.com
Senate Set to Vote on Another Anti-gun Judge Gun Owners of America Washington, DC - - (AmmoLand.com) - Here we go again. First, there was Sonia Sotomayor. Then there was David Hamilton. Now, we have another radical, anti-gun judge that has been nominated for the federal judiciary. His name is Louis Butler, and he is so radical, he was twice rejected by the people of Wisconsin (which is, by the way, one of the most ...
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1 day ago ago from JD Journal
The Supreme Court handed down several decisions today, including the first written by Justice Sotomayor. In keeping with tradition, it was a unanimous decision, although Justice Thomas issued a concurrence. The case was Mohawk Industries V. Carpenter, an attorney-client privilege case in which the Court upheld the lower court's ruling that a federal judge's decision releasing documents created by Mohawk Industries' lawyer could not be ...
Related content"Undocumented Immigrant" Is Now A Legal Lexicon
3 hours ago ago from Change.org's Immigration Blog
Newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, is already starting to make a difference in the courtroom. While handing down a decision in a civil litigation case, MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC. v. CARPENTER , Judge Sotomayor became the first justice on the United States Supreme Court to use the lexicon "undocumented immigrants" to classify immigrants without legal status in her traditional debut opinion. Discourse does matter given ...
Related contentChief Justice Randall Shepard To Receive American Judicature Society Award
18 hours ago ago from Muncie Free Press - Grassroots Journalism for Muncie Indiana and Delaware County
Des Moines, Iowa - Hon. Randall T. Shepard, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, has been selected as the recipient of the Sixth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Justice Shepard was chosen by a three-member panel: Hon. Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; Justice Ronald Robie, California Court of Appeal-Third Appellate District; and Judge Frederic Rodgers, Gilpin Combined ...
Related contentA State-Law Escape Hatch?
7 hours ago ago from SCOTUSblog
Below, Sam Bateman of Stanford Law School recaps Florida v. Powell , one of two cases heard by the Court on Monday. Sam previewed the case here on Sunday, and Lyle's post-argument analysis is available here . Check the Florida v. Powell (08-1175) SCOTUSwiki page for additional updates. At oral argument on December 7 in Florida v. Powell , the Court grappled with how far a “ Miranda warning” can deviate from the standard content typically ...
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Justices Appear Skeptical of Anticorruption Law
20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON A federal law that is a favorite tool of prosecutors in corruption cases met with almost universal hostility from the justices in Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday. Evan Vucci/Associated Press Miguel A. Estrada, center, urged the Supreme Court to strike down a law entirely. Related Sotomayor Draws Retort From a Fellow Justice (December 9, 2009) Times Topics: U.S. Supreme Court Jerry Lai/Associated ...
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18 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court released its first four decisions in argued cases this term on Tuesday. They were all minor, but one was notable for being Justice Sonia Sotomayor 's Supreme Court debut and for prompting a testy concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas . In a minor case, part of an opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor was rejected by Justice Clarence Thomas. Related Justices Appear Skeptical of ...
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9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The New York Times : The Supreme Court released its first four decisions in argued cases this term on Tuesday. They were all minor, but one was notable for being Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court debut and for prompting a testy concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas. The case concerned whether federal trial-court rulings concerning the lawyer-client privilege may be appealed right away. Justice Sotomayor, with methodical reasoning ...
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12 hours ago ago from BBC
By William Horsley BBC News, Strasbourg At 50 years old, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is sometimes held up as a model for the rest of the world - the only supranational court devoted to protecting individual human rights against abuses of state power. Judgements at the court take an average of six years or more But its future is now the subject of a highly sensitive debate that ...
Related contentJustices debate 'honest services' law
20 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
A federal law that makes it a crime to deprive the public or one's employer of honest services is a favorite of prosecutors on the hunt for corrupt politicians and self-dealing corporate honchos. This Story But it found few admirers Tuesday at the Supreme Court. From one end of the mahogany bench to the other, and across the court's notable ideological divide, justices took turns criticizing the 1988 law that makes ...
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