Pin ItemailprintThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has just ruled that Prop. 8, the voter-approved ban on gay marriage in the state of California, is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court’s ruling. Not only that, but the court also rejected the argument that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused [...]
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Today represents a rare “win” for your Fourth Amendment rights, as the Supreme Court has just ruled that police attachment of a GPS device to monitor a suspect’s vehicle was a search protected by constitutional privacy rights. The court’s ruling was a blow to the Obama administration, which had previously defended the use of GPS [...]
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Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement descended upon the Supreme Court on Friday as part of a nationwide effort dubbed “Occupy the Courts”. The rallies focused on challenging a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that removed limits on corporate spending in support of political campaigns. About 100 protesters rallied on the steps of the Supreme [...]
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UPDATE: The Supreme Court has basically overturned this ruling The all-out assault on your civil rights continues. There goes the Fourth Amendment too. A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the FBI didn’t need to obtain a search warrant to covertly attach a GPS device to a suspect’s vehicle in order to track his [...]
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange managed to prolong his stay in Britain today, winning the right to petition the Supreme Court to hear his case against extradition to Sweden over allegations of sex crimes. This morning, two High Court judges in London ruled that Assange’s case raised a question of “general public importance,” meaning that he now [...]
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Here are your top stories for this Tuesday, November 15, 2011: – Supreme Court to decide on Obama health care proposal – Occupy Oakland protesters cannot camp – NBA season in jeopardy as union disbands – Turning ashes into beads
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Troy Davis was executed in Georgia last night, despite last minute efforts to spare him and despite his continued claims of innocence. Outside the prison where he was being held, a crowd of several hundred protesters cried and prayed. They spoke for the hundreds of thousands of supporters around the world who disagreed with Davis’ [...]
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors as this would violate free-speech rights. By a 7-2 vote today, the high court struck down a California law as unconstitutional saying that video game, much like books and movies, deserve free-speech protection. The ruling [...]
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The Supreme Court has sided with WalMart in the chain’s battle to block a huge sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of its female employees. This morning, the court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit against WalMart Stores cannot proceed as a class action, a reversal of a ruling made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
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Well, that’s just great. The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled that the First Amendment protected the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church when it protested at the funeral of Marine killed in Iraq. The court ruled 8-1 that the dead soldier’s father could not sue the WBC celebrating his son’s death with crude funeral [...]
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“Obamacare” was dealt another blow today. A federal judge in Florida has tossed out the health care reform law for which President Barack Obama has been fighting, setting up what will probably be a contentious Supreme Court battle over the legislation. Florida, along with 25 other states, had filed a lawsuit last spring seeking to [...]
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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who has spent the last 5 years amassing a huge grassroots following, has come forth to support support the kind of transparency that WikiLeaks supports. In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday, Paul gave his opinion on the controversy. What do YOU think of Ron [...]
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