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Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Too Close to Call

MADISON, Wis. - The race between a conservative-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and a little-known challenger fueled by a wave of anger over the state's divisive new union rights law was too close to call early Wednesday morning. Unofficial returns from Tuesday's election showed Justice David Prosser and his...

Supreme Court to Hear NJ Man's Appeal Over Strip Searches

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear the case of a man who claims that strip searches in two New Jersey jails violated his constitutional rights. Albert Florence was searched twice in seven days after he was arrested on a warrant for a traffic fine he had already paid. The justices will review an...

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New Jersey Man Protests, Sues Over Routine Strip Search

WASHINGTON -- Albert Florence was strip-searched twice in seven days in two New Jersey jails after he was arrested on a warrant for a traffic fine he had already paid. Florence said he should never have been ordered to undress for the searches, much less been arrested. He sued over his treatment, but a divided panel of...

Supreme Court to Take Up Huge Sex Bias Claim Against Wal-Mart

WASHINGTON -- Christine Kwapnoski hasn't done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days. But Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club stores in both Missouri and California: Men making more than women and getting promoted...

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HUFFPOST FUNDRACE -- Justice Stevens on Citizens United

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens blasted the Court's Citizens United ruling in a speech on Wednesday .

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Why the Supreme Court Should Hear the DOMA Lawsuit

Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Supreme Court should quickly agree to hear the case.

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Mexican justice says Cassez case decision coming in August

Mexican Supreme Court justice Olga Sanchez Cordero said in a television interview broadcast here Thursday that the case of Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping in Mexico, will be decided in August.

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Bruce Harris, Chatham New Jersey Mayor, Not Confirmed For New Jersey Supreme Court

Democratic state senators in New Jersey denied the nation's first gay, black, Republican mayor a chance to sit on the state's highest court, questioning his qualifications and ability to remain independent of the man who nominated him.

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2012: Seeing the Long Arc of American Democracy Reversed

At long last, you are the official Republican nominee for president.

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06/01/12 Jeff Davis Co. student transfer suit dismissed Source: Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg MS The Mississippi Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from a couple involved in a dispute with the Jefferson Davis County school system over their daughter's transfer to Lamar County schools.
06/01/12 Justices say 'impact fees' are taxes that cannot be... Source: The Daily Reporter - Columbus OH The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled yesterday that "impact fees" being assessed by a Warren County township to applicants for zoning certificates were taxes, not fees, and that the township could not lawfully impose them.
06/01/12 Appellate court: Defense of Marriage Act is... Source: Republican-American - Waterbury CT From California to Boston, the legal storm over gay marriage is moving swiftly and inexorably toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
06/01/12 National View: Partisanship tips scales on Supreme... Source: Leader-Telegram - Eau Claire WI Just a few weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court's hearings in March on the constitutionality of several parts of the Affordable Care Act - aka Obamacare - an overwhelming majority of the nation's legal scholars predicted that the law would be upheld.
06/01/12 Federal appeals court rules against Defense of... Source: Deseret News - Salt Lake City UT A unanimous three-member Federal appeals court panel ruled against one part of the Defense of Marriage Act on Thursday, holding that it unconstitutionally created separate classes of marriage and intruded into state rights in defining marriage.

Background on Supreme court

A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, apex court, and highest court of appeal.

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