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Deseret News
April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — The first U.S. Supreme Court debate over President Donald Trump's so-called travel ban took place this week, and while justices won't make a ruling until June, the decision is playing out at a time in which the refugee crisis in one of the impacted countries, Syria, may be getting worse.
CNN
April 25, 2018
"Today's decision is a big blow for accountability for human rights violations in US courts," Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. "Although the Supreme Court had opened the door to such suits in its 2004 ruling, in the Sosa (v.
PRI
April 25, 2018
That year, the high court ruled in Korematsu v. United States that Japanese Americans could lawfully be sent to concentration camps during World War II. In a decision that legal scholars now almost universally view as shameful and wrong, the court accepted the government's stance that President FranklinÃâà...
IPWatchdog.com
April 25, 2018
Earlier today the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Oil States v. .... Greene's Energy Group, the U.S. Supreme Court today relegated patents and challenges to them as more a public, as opposed to a private, right. Justice Thomas .... Professor of Law, University of Richmond, School of Law.
6abc.com
April 25, 2018
In its final oral argument of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard one of the most highly-anticipated cases of the Trump presidency: ... by the Trump administration to bar immigration to the United States from certain foreign countries, Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation on Sept.
Christian Science Monitor
April 24, 2018
All four have told the United States Supreme Court this year that they feel, for various reasons, disenfranchised. ... In a year marked by several potentially landmark decisions, the most significant could be in the trio of gerrymandering cases the high court has reviewed – the last of which is being arguedÃâà...
PolitiFact
April 23, 2018
The Supreme Court decision affects immigrants in the country legally. Immigrants in the country illegally are already subject to deportation by virtue of that status. The Supreme Court case centered on James Garcia Dimaya, a native of the Philippines admitted to the United States as a lawful permanentÃâà...
Disability Scoop
April 18, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous March 2017 decision in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District is holding school districts to a higher standard by requiring “appropriately ambitious” programs. In December, the U.S. Department of Education issued guidelines on implementation of the ruling thatÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — “I'm calling, very simply, for a shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Donald J. Trump said on Dec. 8, 2015. It was .... in September. The Korematsu decision occupies a curious place in the Supreme Court's jurisprudence, as a grave error that has never been formally disavowed.
Marshall Independent
March 31, 2018
Vitale, 1962 U.S. Supreme Court which removed prayer from public schools. A decision that cited no previous cases because there were none in nearly 200 years of U.S. history. Within a year, in Abington v. Schempp, the court ruled that a Bible reading by a student, of his choice, without comment, to startÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 31, 2018
Board of Education of Topeka, Kan., which led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision against school segregation. (AP) ... She showed up out of the blue at my public grade school in Macon, Ga., one day in the mid-1960s, and I'd see her at recess hanging out by a red-brick wall, away from theÃâà...
HuffPost
March 31, 2018
To destroy the landmark Supreme Court decision and ignore its admonition to integrate the schools “with all deliberate speed,” government officials had to ... Indeed, the Kremlin played and preyed on the racial divides in America's vaunted democracy, taunting the United States for beating up black childrenÃâà...
Longmont Times-Call
March 30, 2018
Many think the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision integrated public schools. It did no such thing in my home state of Virginia. Led by U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia's state legislature passed more than 200 state laws circumventing the Supreme Court's mandate. Those laws have become famousÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 30, 2018
Students who survived the Parkland, Florida school shooting wouldn't go there, but a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice did. ... Heller decision changed that when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Washington, D.C., could not ban possession of handguns, finding "the inherent right of self-defense" to beÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 30, 2018
"I think he really wore it on his sleeve in some ways," said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law and expert on the ... Reinhardt also was an advocate for prisoners and blasted the U.S. Supreme Court in a 2015 article for decisions he said prevented courts from freeingÃâà...
Vermillion Plain Talk
March 30, 2018
Back in the early 1950s, she was a quiet girl in Topeka, Kansas, thrust into prominence who persevered to become a focal point of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education ending school segregation. The Brown family long has emphasized the importance manyÃâà...
Utica Observer Dispatch
March 30, 2018
It is difficult for right-thinking people to come to grips with the fact that there was a time when black children could not go to school with white children. It took a U.S. Supreme Court decision to change that. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling ended school segregation. And the deathÃâà...
NRToday.com
March 30, 2018
As a girl in Kansas, Linda Brown's father tried to enroll her in an all-white school in Topeka. He and several black families were turned away, sparking the Brown v. Board of Education case that challenged segregation in public schools. A 1954 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court followed, striking downÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
March 29, 2018
“Harvard's admissions process considers each applicant as a whole person, and we review many factors, consistent with the legal standards established by the U.S. Supreme Court.” First-generation college students make up 17.3 percent of this year's admits, up from 15.1 percent for the admitted Class ofÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 29, 2018
In 2002, I remember sitting in the U.S. Supreme Court chamber listening to Tom Lee — now a member of Utah's Supreme Court — nimbly arguing that Utah was ... The Constitution and Congress, Lee said, demand the census be an actual count of people living in the United States, not statistical projections.
ABA Journal
March 29, 2018
In 1935, however, the U.S. Supreme Court had declared the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional. And in ... established under the U.S. Constitution that provides for the separation of powers and allocates the “judicial power of the United States” to the judicialÃâà...
Longview News-Journal
March 29, 2018
Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, died Sunday at age 76. AP File Photo ... I think about that whenever I see a book or film about the struggle to end racial discrimination in the United States. Though it is a story as old asÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 29, 2018
Existing state law prevents schools from asking students about their immigration status when enrolling in school. In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that held that immigrants living in the United States illegally could not be excluded from public elementary and secondary schoolsÃâà...
Haaretz
March 28, 2018
On Thursday, the justices of the United States Supreme Court will huddle over a list of cases, deciding which they will deign to hear this coming term. On that list sits a foreign affairs blockbuster - one with the potential to roil Israeli-Palestinian politics and to restore constitutional balance to American foreignÃâà...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
March 28, 2018
This morning the Supreme Court wraps up the March session by hearing oral argument in Benisek v. Lamone, a high-profile partisan-gerrymandering challenge by Republican voters to a Democratic-leaning congressional district in Maryland. Amy Howe had this blog's preview, which first appeared atÃâà...
History
March 28, 2018
Board of Education, the landmark 1954 case that eventually overturned “separate-but-equal” segregation in the United States, the Supreme Court Justices ... nearly every aspect of school segregation—and some historians argue that the doll tests played a relatively insignificant part in the court's decision.
The Hill
March 27, 2018
At the federal level, nonpublic school choice programs have been constitutional since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris decision. The key tenet of that decision was that choice programs maintain government neutrality toward religion by providing aid to parents, not schools, whoÃâà...
NPR
March 27, 2018
Board of Education of Topeka has died. Linda Brown was just a kid when her father tried to enroll her in a white elementary school. And a promise he made to her in 1951 led to a transformative U.S. Supreme Court decision three years later. Here's Frank Morris from member station KCUR. FRANK MORRISÃâà...
Reporter Newspapers
March 27, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review of a lawsuit over a Sandy Springs ban on sex-toy sales, meaning the city will pay no penalty for a law that ... project at Emory University School of Law filed briefs urging the Supreme Court to take the case, saying the lower court's decision risked making basicÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 27, 2018
A 1954 decision by the US Supreme Court followed, striking down racial segregation in schools and cementing Linda Brown's place in history. She died ... Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 75. PeacefulÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
March 20, 2018
(CNN) -- Here is a look at the life of the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor. ... 1982 - Writes an opinion invalidating a women-only enrollment policy at a Mississippi State nursing school because it "tends to perpetuate the stereotyped view of nursing as anÃâà...
York Dispatch
March 20, 2018
Keefer said her decision to co-sponsor wasn't about being a Republican but about maintaining separation of powers between the legislative, executive ... When the state Supreme Court ruled in late January that the congressional districts drawn in 2011 were unconstitutionally gerrymandered, it gave theÃâà...
AZCentral.com
March 20, 2018
After the lower court ruled in the favor of the DACA recipients, the case made it's way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the court announced Monday it ... President Barack Obama extended the protection to immigrants brought into the United States as children who have grown up here and only know this asÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
March 20, 2018
The basic Supreme Court decisions that draw free-speech lines for public high school and secondary schools students date back more than 30 years – to a time when the commercial ... A three-judge U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 against the school district on the First Amendment claim.
Education Week (blog)
March 19, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a former New York City teacher who traced her dismissal to a clash with administrators ... They argued that the federal appeals courts are in disagreement about whether a key 2006 Supreme Court decision removing First AmendmentÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case in which anti-abortion pregnancy centers are challenging a state law requiring them to provide notice to ... The Supreme Court's decision to review California's 2015 law delighted crisis pregnancy centers, but it doesn't mean they will win the case.
The 74
March 18, 2018
The Supreme Court's decision, expected to be the final say, was being watched by charter supporters nationally. Renita Thukral serves as the senior national legal adviser for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which provided support to the Louisiana charter association. Thukral grew up inÃâà...
PolitiFact
March 15, 2018
A viral story said that the U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump and ruled that public schools will not teach Sharia law. "Breaking: ... Nowtrump.com wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school in the United States "will not teach the tenets of Islam or Sharia Law." There hasÃâà...
Study International News
March 14, 2018
This year alone, Emory Law hosted a US Supreme Court Justice, the Judge Advocate General of the US Army, a judge in the Iran-United States Claims ... Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, sat down with Emory Law professor Fred Smith, Jr., for a discussion with the law schoolÃâà...
City & State
March 14, 2018
Jennifer Rodgers, the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School and a former assistant U.S. attorney ... on a narrowed definition of what constitutes corruption by public officials outlined in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case McDonnell v. United States.
Mondaq News Alerts
March 14, 2018
The Second Circuit now agrees with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on this issue as reflected in its opinion in Hively v. Ivey Tech ... Ivey Tech Community College opinion. ... As this opinion has just been issued, we are unaware whether the employer will seek a review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Montgomery Herald
March 14, 2018
The United States is not immune to mad endeavors conducted in secrecy, and the U.S. Supreme Court is not always a friend to sunshine. An example of the Supreme Court's complicity in secrecy is the case of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) v. Sims, decided in 1985. The case unleashed an ongoingÃâà...
North Platte Telegraph
March 14, 2018
The program's schedule included visits with congressional leaders, Cabinet members, officials representing the Departments of State and Defense, as well as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Both will be awarded a $10,000 college scholarship provided by The Hearst Foundation. The USSYP serves asÃâà...
Center For American Progress
March 14, 2018
Getty/Steve Russell/Toronto StarFake women's health centers manipulate women's right make informed decisions about their reproductive health, July 2010. ... On March 20, the anti-choice movement will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v.
Fast Company
March 14, 2018
In the wake of last month's mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, students at more than 2,500 schools across the United States are walking ... While the U.S. Supreme Court has said that students do not shed their constitutional free-speech rights “at the school house gate,” schools may, in fact,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
The Iberville Parish School Board, the Louisiana Association of Educators and local chapters of the teacher's union argued in lawsuits that funding the state-chartered schools through a formula meant to pay for local school districts violates the Louisiana Constitution. The formula divvies up both state andÃâà...
Lawrence Journal World
March 7, 2018
What they would prefer is that the U.S. Supreme Court reverse a 25-year-old decision that strictly limits the ability of states to tax "remote" sales such as those ... who tried to collect sales taxes from Quill Corp., a large, national mail-order company that sold office equipment throughout the United States.
Bucks County Courier Times
March 7, 2018
A mandatory death sentence does not provide for such review and is cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the last remnant of the mandatory death penalty in the United States. The decisionÃâà...
Washington Blade
March 7, 2018
speaks at a rally in front of the United States Supreme Court against Trump nominees. (Washington Blade photo ... rallied before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in opposition to two Trump nominees, one with a history of anti-LGBT legal work, the other with a history of black voter suppression. At timesÃâà...
KCCI Des Moines
March 4, 2018
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear what is now considered a landmark decision that set a precedent for many free speech cases. In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the court ruled that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech orÃâà...
