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Justices explore legal ramifications of Florida court's deadline ruling
Sun ReporterIn a wide-ranging inquiry into the legal side of the presidential election dispute, the Supreme Court took turns yesterday denouncing and defending a Florida court ruling that prolonged the feud. After a 90-minute hearing, before an audience peopled with...Tags: Al Gore, Justice System, U.S. Electoral College, Polls, Local Elections
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Nineteen touched by No. 19
Sun StaffAwe-struck schoolboy Dick Jerardi Jerardi has worked a thousand locker rooms and big events as a sports reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. Four decades ago, when he was in the seventh or eighth grade at Cathedral School, he still placed his...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Bars and Clubs, Death, Baltimore Colts
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Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions"
Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions" By Elizabeth Sherwood North Central Michigan College student There are many people who have played an important role in the journey to equality for all. The most notable of those people...Tags: Minority Groups, University of South Carolina , Racism, Discrimination, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that U.S. courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding lawsuits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed out a...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Justice System, Stephen Breyer, Criminal Laws, Laws
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Salt, Chocolate Chip Cookies, John G. Roberts, Jr., Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Stephen Breyer
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Family, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Justice System, Incest
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Why North Carolina can't have its own official church
In recent days my Facebook feed has been littered with links to stories about a bill in the North Carolina Legislature that would allow the state to establish its own religion. Here was another example, my outraged friends said, of Bible Belt...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Separation of Church and State, North Carolina Legislature, Justice System, Church and State Relations
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Justice System, Energy Resources, Stephen Breyer, Trials
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Family, Samuel A. Alito, John G. Roberts, Jr., Elena Kagan, Same-Sex Marriage
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...
Tags: Family, Minority Groups, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., Same-Sex Marriage
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The stakes before the court
WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try. The two big cases being argued this...
Tags: Family, Minority Groups, Samuel A. Alito, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage
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From affirmative action to diversity
Victor Davis HansonSometime in the new millennium, "global warming" evolved into "climate change." Amid growing controversies over the planet's past temperatures, Al Gore and other activists understood that human-induced "climate change" could better explain almost any...Tags: Victor Davis Hanson, Minority Groups, Immigration, Al Gore, George H.W. Bush
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