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Roberts Casts Blame on Both Parties for Judicial Nomination Gridlock

WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting federal judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of judicial nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking...

Opinion: Should Companies Be Free to Hide Their Misconduct?

(June 30) -- Imagine if the public didn't know about all the corporate wrongdoing leading to BP's oil spill or Goldman Sachs' role in the financial collapse. Without the ensuing public outrage, would the government have responded the same way? Under a recent court ruling, such information may no longer be public. In an...

Top Court's Ruling in School Case Skirts Bigger Issue

(June 29) -- The Supreme Court has decided a California law school can deny university recognition to a campus club that bars non-Christians from its membership. But the ruling still hasn't settled the larger issue of how far colleges can go in pressing student groups not to discriminate. Many public universities have...

Supreme Court Declines Vatican Sex-Abuse Appeal

(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to review a lawsuit that challenges the Vatican's immunity from prosecution in clerical sex abuse cases. Minnesota lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, who filed the case in 2002, called the high court's decision to allow the lawsuit to go forward "an enormous breakthrough for the...

Opinion: Supreme Court's Gun Ban Ruling Will Have Limited Impact

(June 28) -- It is not surprising that the same five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that the District of Columbia's handgun ban was unconstitutional two years ago have now ruled that similar bans, whether enacted by Chicago or any other state or city, are similarly not permitted. Most observers thought the...

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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.

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The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate (but largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and over state court cases involving issues of federal law, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases.

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