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3 hrs ago | Queerty

Supreme Odds: How Will Justice Stephen Breyer Vote On Marriage Equality?

Stephen Breyer knows how to tiptoe around emotional landmines. It was he who raised the issue of "sterile couples" when Yes on 8 attorney Charles Cooper argued that marriage laws are all about procreation and that domestic partnerships are sufficient for same-sex couples.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer, Wedding, Gay/Lesbian

11 hrs ago | Reno Gazette-Journal

President not guilty of 'packing' appeals court

Frustrated that the Supreme Court was striking down some of his New Deal programs, President Frankin Roosevelt proposed adding six seats to the nine-member court, which he would fill with his own justices.

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Related Topix: US News, Clarence Thomas, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Chuck Grassley

16 hrs ago | Jurist

Supreme Court rules lawyers cannot solicit clients through DMV records

Spears [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that an attorney's solicitation of clients is not a permissible purpose covered by the litigation exception to the Driver's Privacy Protection Act [text].

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News, US Supreme Court, South Carolina, South Carolina Government

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Kansas City Star

Supreme Court ruling on voter I.D. could affect Kansas law

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona cannot require voters to document their citizenship before allowing them to cast ballots in federal elections.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, US Supreme Court, Immigration Reform

The Washington Post

Drugmakers Opened to - Pay for Delay' Suits by Supreme Court

Drugmakers can be sued for paying rivals to delay low-cost versions of popular medicines, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a decision that rewrites the rules governing the release of generic drugs.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, US Supreme Court, Bristol Myers Squibb, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Houston Chronicle

Court says pre-Miranda silence can be used

The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer

Wall Street Journal

Justices Strike Down Arizona Voting Rules

Arizona violated the federal "Motor Voter" law when it added a proof-of-citizenship requirement to standard voter-registration forms intended for use nationwide, the Supreme Court held Monday.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Immigration Reform, Antonin Scalia, Opinion

Boston.com

Graphic: The hand transplant

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital have started the world's first hand transplant program for youngsters, a technique that has been used successfully on adults but not children.

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Related Topix: US News

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Ridenbaugh Press

A case of Idaho changing the country

To most non-lawyers, the Idaho-originated Supreme Court case of Reed v. Reed is a little obscure now, not one of those few like Roe v.

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Related Topix: US News, Idaho Government, Idaho

CNN

Upcoming high court decisions

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court sit for their official photograph on October 8, 2010, at the Supreme Court.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, John G. Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Cleveland.com

Supreme Court ruling on DNA sampling is a worrisome erosion of Fourth Amendment rights: editorial

Clockwise from top left, Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the dissenters in the Maryland DNA case.

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Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, US Supreme Court, Opinion

CBS Local

Former Gov. Mario Cuomo's Portrait Unveiled By His Son

On this Father's Day weekend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday unveiled a painting of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, at the State Capitol.

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Related Topix: Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, US Governors, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, US Supreme Court

Queerty

Supreme Odds: How Will Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Vote On Marriage Equality?

For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the argument that same-sex couples should be satisfied with civil unions or domestic partnerships probably has a familiar ring - and not a pretty one.

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Related Topix: US News, Virginia Military Institute, Wedding, Gay/Lesbian

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Switched

Supreme Court Justices' Wealth Explored

At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer, US Supreme Court, My Beloved World, Books

National Review Online

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activisma "June 14

In addition to dissenting from Roe and favoring its overruling, White authored the Court's opinion in 1986 rejecting as "at best, facetious" the notion that the Constitution confers a right to homosexual sodomy.

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Related Topix: US News, ACLU

Thu Jun 13, 2013

The Washington Post

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"The J is for Jefferson," Justice Scalia says. "It's clearer if you read where I have the full phrase tattooed on my left thigh.

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Related Topix: US News, Antonin Scalia, John G. Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Sports

Jurist

Supreme Court rules judicial interference does not necessarily void guilty plea

Davila [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that judicial participation in plea negotiations does not automatically require vacatur of a defendant's guilty plea.

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Related Topix: US News, Clarence Thomas, Prison, US Supreme Court, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Real Clear Politics

Time to Play Supreme Court Bingo

We're nearing the end of the Supreme Court's term. By the time June is over, all of the court's opinions will be handed down, and the justices will take a break before resuming at the end of summer.

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Related Topix: US News, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy

Tue Jun 11, 2013

Evansville Courier & Press

EDITORIAL: Post-arrest DNA test scrapes away privacy

The Constitution's Bill of Rights guarantees the right of Americans "to be secure in their persons" against "unreasonable searches and seizures" unless authorized by a court-issued search warrant.

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Related Topix: US News, Anthony Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Opinion

Mon Jun 10, 2013

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

Unanimous Supreme Court Allows Raisin Farmers to Challenge New Deal-Era Farm Control Law

In a unanimous decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that several California raisin farmers may proceed with their constitutional challenge to a New Deal-era farm control law designed to artificially inflate agricultural prices by restricting the supply of goods available for sale on the market.

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Related Topix: US News, Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court, Agriculture, Science, Marketing