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Supreme Court To Decide Blockbuster Cases Soon

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- One never knows when the Supreme Court will hand down its last, often biggest, opinions of the term. But the justices' summer travel sch...

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Deportation And Wiretapping At The Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuin...

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Supreme Court's Women Celebrate 30 Years Of Female Justices

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The only four women to serve as Supreme Court justices gathered Wednesday night to celebrate Sandra Day O'Connor's pathbreaking arrival...

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Death of a Mandate: Why Health Care Reform in America is Over

Meredith Bagby | Posted 05.29.2012

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The legislation that cost a hugely popular president nearly all his political capital is about to be dismantled with the strike of the court's gavel.

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2 Justices Could Be Key In Health Care Law Case

AP | CONNIE CASS | Posted 05.28.2012

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WASHINGTON — The fate of President Barack Obama's health care law appears to rest precariously in the hands of two justices. After three days o...

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Idaho Couple Can Fight EPA, Supreme Court Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously reversed a lower court opinion that forbade an Idaho couple from challenging an Environmental...

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Supreme Court Takes On Life-Without-Parole Sentence For Teens Convicted Of Murder

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In 2005, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for minors no matter how heinous the crime. In 2010, the justices drew the same line...

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A New Look at Citizens United

Lyle Denniston | Posted 05.04.2012

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Many observers have blamed the Court's January 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission for supposedly turning on the corporate money-in-politics spigot. But even some members of the Court are questioning anew whether that was a mistake.

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The High Court's Brisk Constitutional: Health Reform

Alain L. Sanders | Posted 04.13.2012

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If ever there was a get-out-of-town case, this one is it: Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, the case that challenges the constituti...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Provides Hint On Potential Same-Sex Marriage Case

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 04.11.2012

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NEW YORK — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v....

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Justice Ginsburg Talks Constitution, Women, Liberty on Egyptian TV

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.01.2012

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Appearing on Egyptian television before concluding a four-day trip in Egypt, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg extolled the virtues of the U.S. Constitution...

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Warrantless GPS Tracking Unconstitutional, Supreme Court Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The installation of a GPS tracking device onto a suspect's car constitutes a search -- and therefore could require a warrant -- the Supr...

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Supreme Court: Death Row Inmate Should Not Die Due to Mailroom Mix-Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.18.2012

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An Alabama death row inmate stymied by a law firm's egregious mail room mix-up will have the opportunity to appeal his death sentence, the Supreme Cou...

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Supreme Court Fusses Over Indecent TV

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- "There's a bare buttock there, and there's a bare buttock here," said Seth Waxman, pointing up to the historical and mythical figures th...

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Who Will Be America's Next Top Conservative Justice?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.21.2011

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At the Fox News presidential debate in Iowa last week, moderator Megyn Kelly asked the Republican candidates to name their favorite Supreme Court just...

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The Supreme Court Cookbook

AP | By JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's children banished her from the kitchen decades ago – her tuna fish casserole the ...

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Justice Kennedy Hints At Change Of Heart In Sixth Amendment Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday morning, Justice Anthony Kennedy turned a constitutional inquiry he once derided as "formalistic and wooden" into one of his ...

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Justices Weigh Guns, Gangs And Broad Search Warrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court grappled with guns, gangs and a detective's good faith in executing a search warrant at oral argument Monday morning. ...

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What 'Citizens United' And A Case Tuesday Have In Common

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Justice Anthony Kennedy doesn't always cast the decisive swing vote. He too can be found in dissent, aggressively lobbying the law to tu...

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WATCH: Supreme Court To Hear Strange Bedfellow, Riverbed Cases This Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.03.2011

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The Supreme Court rounds out its December sitting this week with a couple of cases rife with ex-bedfellows, strange bedfellows and riverbeds. Monda...

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Justices Not Moved By HIV-Positive Pilot's Distress

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A majority of the Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday morning to help a California man who claims he suffered severe mental and em...

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What Do Facebook And Justice Scalia Have In Common?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- What do Facebook and the conservative majority of the Supreme Court have in common? Based on Monday's oral argument, it appears they're ...

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Justices Resist Call For New Rule On Eyewitness IDs

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared satisfied Wednesday morning that no new constitutional rule was needed to weed out unreliable eyewitness iden...

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Supreme Court Asked How Much Bad Lawyering The Constitution Allows

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- When Anthony Cooper shot a fleeing woman in the thigh and buttocks back in 2003, his lawyer advised him to reject the prosecution's deal...

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Democrats Try To Overturn Supreme Court's Anti-Consumer Rulings

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- It's not abortion or affirmative action -- or, for that matter, campaign finance -- but a series of recent cases on arbitration has shar...

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