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Beachfront Property Rights May Be Backed by Supreme Court in Erosion Case

The U.S. Supreme Court considered bolstering the rights of oceanfront property owners, as justices questioned a Florida program that protects against erosion by adding sand and creating new strips of public beach.

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Related Topix: US News, Florida, Florida Government, US Supreme Court

Thu Dec 03, 2009

New York Times

Homeowner Rights and Hot Dog Sellers Are Talk of Court

If you are the owner of beachfront property and the state comes along and widens the beach, do you own the new land or does the state? Gary McCracken The line between public and private property has been a sore point in Destin, Fla., after six beachfront homeowners sued over a beach-widening project.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Justices appear sympathetic to beachfront property owners

Reporting from Washington - Hearing arguments today in a Florida beach case, the Supreme Court justices sounded as though they agreed with property owners who said their right to a private beach could not be taken away when the state added new sand to an eroded shoreline.

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Related Topix: US News

Tue Nov 24, 2009

SF Gate

Review: Scalia biography draws on key interviews

"American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" , by Joan Biskupic: The last time veteran Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic wrote a biography of a justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, she promptly retired.

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Related Topix: US News, Entertainment

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The GW Hatchet

All-female panel to preside over moot court

For the first time in the event's history, the GW Law School's annual Van Vleck Moot Court in January will host an all-female panel of judges, law school Dean Frederick Lawrence said last week.

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Related Topix: Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Sonia Sotomayor

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Denver - News, Events, Restaurants, M...

Sarah Palin is only pretending to be pro-life enough, says American Right to Life

Sarah Palin: pro-life exemplar or poser in lipstick? Sarah Palin, who's monopolizing the airwaves as part of her publicity tour for her new book, Going Rogue , is widely viewed as one of the more pro-life politicians on the current scene.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Sarah Palin, Abortion, W.

Wed Nov 18, 2009

ABA Journal

Invisible Constitution and Missing Pounds Surface at Alito Speech

Perhaps there's something in the water at the U.S. Supreme Court. That's one explanation offered by Above the Law for Justice Samuel A. Alito's new younger and thinner appearance.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Blog News

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Legal Times

Alito Praises Fidelity to the Law, Defends Sotomayor

In a speech to the Federalist Society Thursday as part of its annual conference, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

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Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor, Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Sat Nov 14, 2009

U.S. Supreme Court Monitor

Sotomayor Emerges as Frequent -- and Tough ? Questioner

Bryan Stevenson, a superhero in the pantheon of the liberal public interest bar, was standing before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Pasadena Weekly

A 'Dirty Shame'

As the Right Wing wraps Samuel Alito up in a festive black robe, hoping to sell his Supreme Court appointment for Christmas , celluloid iconoclast John Waters wants nothing more than to revel in the season - boozy familial fisticuffs, consumer despair, goopy cornflake-wreath cookies and all.

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Related Topix: A Dirty Shame, Comedy Movies, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Crime Movies, Female Trouble, Hairspray, Drama Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, John Waters

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Deseret News

2 more in GOP may challenge Bennett

With Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's exit from the U.S. Senate contest, two other Republicans are looking seriously at a race against Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Sundance Film Festival, Jon Huntsman, Jr., US Governors, US Supreme Court

Tue Nov 10, 2009

CNN

Justices debate life sentences for juveniles

The Supreme Court wrestled in often emotional terms Monday over whether sentencing juvenile criminals to life in prison without parole is "cruel and unusual" punishment, especially when their crime is not murder.

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Related Topix: US News, Prison, Death Penalty

Mon Nov 09, 2009

MSNBC

High court looks at life in prison for juveniles

Joe Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, US News

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Legal Times

'Justices split on Series'

"Justices split on Series": Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies.

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Related Topix: US News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Christian Science Monitor

Supreme Court appears split on tackling rogue prosecutors

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the difficult issue of what to do about unscrupulous prosecutors willing to induce false testimony and hide exculpatory evidence to convict innocent defendants.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Mon Nov 02, 2009

OfficialWire

U.S. Supreme Court: Knots Could Tighten Around Abortion

Is abortion doomed in the United States? Probably not. But with the changed equation on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Justice Samuel Alito succeeding Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2005 -- the prospects for more restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion seem to be rising.

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Related Topix: Abortion, US News, US Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Legal Times

Justices, Law Enforcement Officials Pay Tribute to Assassinated Italian Judge

A high-level gathering at the Supreme Court paid tribute on Thursday to Giovanni Falcone, an iconic Italian judge who was assassinated in 1992 as he waged legal war against the Mafia.

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Related Topix: US News, Mafia, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Hampton Roads, Virginia, news, sports...

Attorney urges Va. to revive college booze ad ban

A federal appeals court grappled Thursday with the question of whether a judge went too far when she overturned Virginia 's ban on liquor advertising in college newspapers--a regulation the state says is intended to curb illegal underage drinking.

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Related Topix: University of Virginia, University of Pittsburgh, US News, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

The Crimson White

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak to students

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will speak today at 2 p.m. at the UA School of Law.

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Related Topix: University of Alabama

Tue Oct 27, 2009

PrawfsBlawg

Alito on the 'Catholic' 'Majority' 'Issue'

Here's a story on an issue we've written about quite often at Prawfsblawg. In it, Justice Samuel Alito complains about the recurring nature of "what he called persistent questions about the [Supreme Court's] Roman Catholic majority.

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