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Supreme Court lifts time limit on some 'actual innocence' appeals
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a second chance Tuesday to prisoners who come up with strong new evidence of their innocence, but who have waited too long to file an appeal. In a 5-4 decision, the justices lifted the one-year time limit for...
Tags: Criminals, John G. Roberts, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Prosecution, U.S. Congress
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Supreme Court rules for PPL in overseas tax case
WASHINGTON- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled for utility PPL Corp. in its dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over credits the company claimed to offset overseas tax payments. The court ruled on a unanimous vote that Allentown-based PPL can...Tags: Allentown, U.S. Supreme Court, Credit and Debt, Entergy Corporation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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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: Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Biology
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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, Anthony Kennedy, Marriage, Antonin Scalia, Minority Groups
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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: Church and State Relations, Judges, North Carolina Legislature, U.S. Congress, American Civil Liberties Union
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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: Civil Rights, Minority Groups, Discrimination, Harriet Tubman, Racism
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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, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John G. Roberts, Jr., Marriage, Antonin Scalia
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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, Anthony Kennedy, Civil Rights, John G. Roberts, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...
Tags: Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Civil Rights, John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. Congress
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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, Anthony Kennedy, The Washington Post, Marriage, Antonin Scalia
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Photographer tracking Justin Bieber's Ferrari killed in accident
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the death of a photographer who was hit by a car after taking shots of Justin Bieber's white Ferrari.... -
Natalie Wood probe hampered by 'fading memories,' source says
L.A. NOWNew details in a coroner's report are not likely to move forward the Sheriff's Department probe of Natalie Wood's death. In a report released Monday, the coroner, Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, questioned the original 1981 findings and changed Wood's...
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