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Supreme Court Turns Away New Appeal From Chinese Muslims at Gitmo

WASHINGTON -- The five remaining Chinese Muslims who are being held at Guantanamo Bay lost their latest bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to hear their case. The justices turned away a plea from the five detainees, who have been held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba for nearly nine years. The detainees had previously...

A Jazzy All-American State Dinner for Chinese President

WASHINGTON -- Michelle and Barack Obama welcomed a mix of Hollywood A-listers, big business types and prominent Chinese-Americans to the White House as they threw a "quintessentially American" state dinner Wednesday for the president of China, complete with apple pie and ice cream, and jazz music for the...

Opinion: What's Wrong With Oklahoma's Shariah Amendment?

(Nov. 29) -- In early November, 70 percent of Oklahoma voters approved changing the state's constitution to instruct state courts to rely on federal and state law when deciding cases and not to use (1) international law or (2) Shariah, the sacred law of Islam. Less than a month later, a federal judge ruled that it is...

Bachmann Caucus to Start Offering Classes

WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) -- Is Glenn Beck University opening a satellite campus on Capitol Hill? If tea party darling Michele Bachmann gets her way, conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano and David Barton, a Christian evangelist who has said church-state separation is "a myth," will make up...

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Calif. Video Game Law

(Nov. 2) -- Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today questioned the legality of a California law that seeks to control the sale of violent video games. The justices invoked James Madison, 1990s video game "Mortal Kombat" and the Grimm brothers' fairy tales as they heard arguments from the state of California and...

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Justice Stephen Breyer Has Georgetown Home Burglarized

People apparently like to steal things from Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

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Supreme Court Rejects 2 Medical Test Patents; Decision Could Impact Personalized Drug Profitability

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two patents on a method for monitoring a patient's blood to determine the best dosage for a drug, a decision that may affect the profitability of personalized medicine.

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05/23/12 In Virginia high school, will Ten Commandments stay or... Source: Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe OH The two-year battle over posting the Ten Commandments on a high school wall in Giles County, Va., has been polarizing, angry and downright nasty.
05/23/12 Charles C. Haynes: In Virginia school, will Ten... Source: Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home AR Both were 5-4 decisions, with four justices voting to invalidate both displays and four voting to uphold both.
05/22/12 Charles C. Haynes: Will the Ten Commandments stay or... Source: Burlington Free Press - Burlington VT Both were 5-4 decisions, with four justices voting to invalidate both displays and four voting to uphold both.
05/21/12 Inside the first amendment: Will 10 Commandments stay... Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle - Traverse City MI The two-year battle over posting the Ten Commandments on a high school wall in Giles County, Va., has been polarizing, angry and downright nasty.
05/20/12 Charles C. Haynes: In Va. high school, will Ten... Source: Summit Daily News - Frisco CO The two-year battle over posting the Ten Commandments on a high school wall in Giles County, Va., has been polarizing, angry and downright nasty.

Background on Stephen Breyer

Stephen Gerald Breyer (; born August 15, 1938) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, and known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court.

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