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By Kevin Fogarty Add a new comment May 16, 2012, 2:35 PM - The US Supreme Court may consider corporations to be people, but three Federal judges in three states have ruled that an IP address is not a person, throwing into question charges against ...
But progress at the state level has been uneven, with many states waiting to see how healthcare reform fares in a US Supreme Court ruling anticipated in June that could overturn the law. The main case before the court was brought by 26 states that ...
By Debra Cassens Weiss Seattle police officers are asking the US Supreme Court to grant cert and rule they did not use excessive force by tasering a pregnant woman who would not get out of her car.
20, 2012, the second anniversary of the US Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision: People in more than 100 cities participated in similar demonstrations.

The US Supreme Court is being asked to take on the case of a man who owes Sony $675000 for admitting to illegally share 31 songs online.
Mason's approach runs counter to a 40-year-old US Supreme Court decision that threw out the country's death penalty laws in part over the arbitrariness of the laws in place at the time, said Ohio state public defender Tim Young.
by The HR Specialist: Compensation and Benefits on May 16, 2012 11:00am The US Supreme Court will decide the fate of health care reform before the end of June, after hearing three days of oral arguments for and against it in late March.

While US Supreme Court watchers focus on the controversial insurance requirement in President Barack Obama's healthcare law, lesser known is that the court's ruling next month will also decide the fate of billions of dollars in new taxes.
The US Supreme Court will not hear Bulldog investors' appeal of a three-year old fine for allegedly marketing its hedge fund in Massachusetts.
A controversial ship which was involved in one of the worst-ever oil spills off Alaska in 1989 has been denied permission by the Supreme Court (SC) to anchor off the Gujarat coast for dismantling. Exxon Valdez, now named Oriental Nicety, has once again ...
But it is still part of the United States - even if the state Supreme Court wants to pretend that it isn't. Five of the state court's seven justices recently expressed their disapproval of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision by announcing ...
They took their case to the US Supreme Court and asked that the mandate be declared unconstitutional. It is a dicey proposition to place such an issue before this Supreme Court. This is a court that is supposed to have judicial restraint, ...
The US Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that executing the mentally retarded amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and is unconstitutional.
One Veteran has taken this question to the United States Supreme Court. Peter Barclay, 42, from Albany, Oregon filed his case in the Supreme Courts earlier this month with the assistance of his lawyer, Michael Eisenberg, from Washington DC Mr.
Moran, 56, sat back in Oneida County Court as his attorney, Mark Curley, explained to Judge John Balzano why he believed the latest decisions by the state Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court suggest that Moran's constitutional rights were ...
By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer US Sen. Patrick Leahy is urging the US Supreme Court to let the 2010 health care law stand.
I was fortunate to be able to attend the argument before the United States Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the provision in the Affordable Care Act providing that individuals should take personal responsibility for paying for their health ...
She will speak about ethics and the US Supreme Court. Tuesday, May 22 - 7:45 pm Trevor Potter, a member of Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, DC office and former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission, who represents Stephen Colbert ...
The US Supreme Court says it won't take up the case of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters. In documents made public Tuesday, the nation's highest court denied Petters' request to review his 2009 conviction on charges he orchestrated a $3.65 billion ...
The state of Wyoming has asked the US Supreme Court to review its challenge to a 2001 federal rule barring development on roadless areas in national forests.
By From staff reports The US Supreme Court has again steered clear of an international dispute over a half-billion dollars in gold and silver that a local salvage company discovered and brought from the ocean floor to Tampa.
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - The four-year-old Saga of Psystar, a Florida Mac clone maker that was crushed by Apple, ended Monday when the US Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling. The decision to not consider the case ...
Minneapolis - The US Supreme Court says it won't take up the case of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters. In documents made public Tuesday, the nation's highest court denied Petters' request to review his 2009 conviction on charges he orchestrated a ...
No matter how the US Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care reform, health care is on track to drive the federal government into bankruptcy.
NOMAAN MERCHANT, AP Dallas (AP) - The US Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a new trial for a Houston-area man convicted of killing his girlfriend's baby daughter, despite a key witness in the case retreating from her testimony.
FR) said Monday it will launch Havanista-branded Cuban rum in the US if the country lifts its embargo on Cuba, after the US Supreme Court refused to review a decision by a lower court that prevented the company from renewing its Havana Club trademark ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The US Supreme Court won't hear an appeal over whether the family of a man allegedly killed by former Boston mob boss and FBI informant "Whitey" Bulger should get millions of dollars from the government.
Last week I got my sample ballot for the upcoming California primary and opened the booklet to the page for the United States Senate candidates. I was almost blinded by the array of twenty-four candidates listed randomly in one huge roster.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court won't consider giving a man convicted in the death of a Texas toddler a new trial because the medical examiner changed her opinion on the cause of death.
By Tobi Soniyi in Abuja, 13 May 2012 The Supreme Court has set aside the acquisition of 50 per cent stake by the federal government in the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 127 granted to Famfa Oil Nigeria Limited, a company which has renowned businesswoman, ...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant controversial US ship Oriental Nicety, earlier known as 'Exxon Valdez' and involved in one of the worst US oil spills off Alaska in 1986, an immediate permission to anchor off the Gujarat coast.
AP The US Supreme Court has again steered clear of an international dispute over the treasure salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck.
The US Supreme Court has described driving as a regulated activity on public roads where there is no personal expectation of privacy.
But it is still part of the United States - even if the state Supreme Court wants to pretend that it isn't. Five of the state court's seven justices recently expressed their disapproval of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision by announcing ...
By Chuck Lindell Three members of the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court face re-election this year, but two will have to survive primary opponents who accuse the court of becoming too pro-business.
By Anonymous Chicagoan Otis McDonald, the lead plaintiff in a landmark US Supreme Court case on gun rights, will speak on concealed carry laws at 7 pm May 17 at the local NAACP office, 101 S. MacArthur Hwy.
Her case was thrown out after the US Supreme Court ruled she missed a deadline for filing the lawsuit. In eight of his last 18 campaign events, Obama reminded voters that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which provides employees more time to file such ...
The US Supreme Court in January laid down the final verdict that police may not install GPS tracking devices on automobiles without the sanction of a warrant signed by an independent magistrate.
Whatever happens in that circuit, the losers are expected to seek review from the US Supreme Court. Traditionally, family-law issues like marriage have been decided at the state level, and in 1967 Virginia argued that it could ban interracial marriage ...
Eugene Scalia is a well-known name in Washington - his father is US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The younger Scalia is a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher who has carved out a niche representing business groups against regulatory agencies ...
In March, he sat in the chambers of the US Supreme Court as the challenge he helped lead to President Obama's health care law was argued.
A pending US Supreme Court ruling could make life more expensive for money managers that invest in distressed real estate debt.
05/14/2012 ...within the US Supreme Court and the US. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter.... by Sheri Qualters | 05/14/2012 ...A string of recent defense verdicts in the...not just technically ...
By Melissa Westphal ROCKFORD - Rockford's Big Three hospitals will spend much of this year improving and expanding facilities and preparing for federal health care reform mandates, even as the US Supreme Court scrutinizes the law.
In late April, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Arizona v. the United States, which goes to the heart of our constitutional system: federalism, the relationship between the federal government and the 50 states.
Also, US Treasury ekes out a profit on Banner Bank TARP investment; and Supreme Court rebuffs local securities lawsuit.
BY SUSAN CLARY Fifty years ago, Clarence Earl Gideon, a Panama City drifter, sat in his jail cell, took a pencil to paper and wrote a five-page petition to the US Supreme Court. He asked the justices to consider his complaint that a Bay County judge ...
John Cornyn is interviewed after leaving the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC after the morning session March 27, 2012. (Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty Images) Sen. John Cornyn is interviewed after leaving the US Supreme Court in Washington, ...


 


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