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U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS Says Text on Your Own Gadget or Your Employer Can Read What You Text

June 17, 2010
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A California police department did not violate the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it audited the text messages on a pager the city had issued him, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday. Okay, I’m all for freedom of speech.  After all, we all email and text messages that are private and some [...]

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A Case Too Good for the SCOTUS to Pass Up

December 7, 2009
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Back to the separation of church and state and God against the gays, again.  Perhaps, this case is not all that interesting but there is just something about it that caught our interest.  Here goes. According to the Washington Post: The Christian Legal Society at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in [...]

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The Supreme Court Upholds Courts of Law, Not Courts of Justice

June 18, 2009

In a 5-4 decision today the Supreme Court of the United States made one of the worst rulings in history. “DNA testing has an unparalleled ability both to exonerate the wrongly convicted and to identify the guilty,” the majority conceded, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. “The availability of new [...]

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Is “Justice” Getting Harder to Buy?

June 8, 2009

It seems that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that those big corporations who pay to play may find it harder to sway the judge in the future.  Some of us have been in that situation — David fighting Goliath, except David never seems to win in the court room. Today the [...]

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Supreme Court Justice David Souter to Retire

April 30, 2009

AT only 69, Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s present term.  It has been reported that Souter will stay until his replacement is confirmed. Justice Souter has to be one of the greatest disappointments to Republican conservatives among all appointments to the Court.  Appointed by [...]

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U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Consumers For Once

March 4, 2009

Today was a big day in the U.S. Supreme Court.  The justices, in a 6-3 decision, said that an FDA-approval label does not protect pharmaceuticals from lawsuits. By a 6-to-3 vote in a major defeat for the pharmaceutical industry, the high court ruled that U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling approvals do not pre-empt state [...]

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