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High Court Rules for Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent. The court's narrow, 6-3 ruling means that Hank Skinner, who was about an hour away from execution when the Supreme Court intervened last year, will...

Dissenting Justice: Westboro Ruling Goes Too Far

Where should the nation draw the line on free speech? For Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the defense of First Amendment rights expressed by today's majority ruling in the Westboro Baptist Church case goes too far. The 8-1 decision found that the fringe church's hate-filled picketing at the funeral of a Marine...

Supreme Court Sides With Westboro Baptist Church; Twitter Reluctantly Agrees

Who ever said that free speech would be easy? Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, a small group, made up mostly of members of the Phelps family, that stages protests at military funerals (and other places). The case, Snyder v. Phelps, was filed by the father of a...

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Military Funeral Protesters

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals...

Obama's State of the Union Speech: Memorable Moments From Past Addresses

President Barack Obama's State of the Union address will surely touch on the year's accomplishments, bipartisanship efforts and domestic policy, but history tells us that tonight's most memorable moments will also be the most unpredictable. For all the careful planning, there's no telling who will come up with a creative...

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Supreme Court Likely to Decide Arizona Immigration Law Case by Late June

The Supreme Court will likely hand down a decision regarding Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, in late June, according to the Associated Press.

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05/31/12 Supreme Court Summer Plans 05-31-12 Source: The Daily Record - Omaha NE One never knows when the Supreme Court will hand down its last, often biggest, opinions of the term.
05/29/12 Supreme Court decision may help city in lacrosse case Source: News-Record - Greensboro NC An April U.S. Supreme Court ruling bolsters immunity claims from the city and two Durham Police Department detectives who investigated the Duke lacrosse case, lawyers for the city say.
05/24/12 Samuel A. Alito Source: National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., has demonstrated that he is a devoted ideologue who would, in fact, roll back, rather than defend, hard-won constitutional freedoms.
05/22/12 Supreme Court rules courts cannot award cost of... Source: JURIST - Paper Chase [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday ruled 6-3 [opinion, PDF] in Taniguchi v. 1920(6) [text]. 1920(6), the Supreme Court held that the most natural definition of "interpreter" was one that did oral translation and that the standard was for parties to bear their own litigation costs unless Congress explicitly states otherwise.
05/22/12 No costs award for translated documents Source: Saipan Tribune - Northern Mariana Islands WASHINGTON (AP)-The Supreme Court says interpretation and translation are not the same thing when it comes to paying fees associated with federal civil lawsuits.