Supreme Court reinstates Md. DNA law
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High court limits state action on immigration
BY: Associated Press  WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court threw out major parts of Arizona’s tough crackdown on illegal immigrants Monday in a ruling sure to reverberate through the November elections. The justices unanimously approved the law’s most-discussed provision — requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons — but limited the [...] |
High court justices release financial disclosure forms
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor revealed Wednesday that she is still getting gifts more than two years after her confirmation as the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice, including a $6,000 “translucent composite print” of important places and things from her life that will soon go on display at a Smithsonian Institution gallery in Washington. Sotomayor, [...] |
Health care arguments: Can any portion survive?
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it could throw out other key parts of President Barack Obama’s health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional. On the third and last day of arguments, the justices appeared to accept the administration’s argument that at least two important insurance changes are [...] |
Conservative justices question health care law
BY: Associated Press  WASHINGTON — Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices cast serious doubt Tuesday on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. Arguments at the high court focused on whether the mandate for virtually every American to have insurance “is a step beyond what [...] |
Justices seem troubled by breadth of warrant in domestic violence case
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Inside the First Amendment: High court rulings reinforce free speech
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High court undoes Scalia’s pro-tobacco order
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia exercised a rarely used power last fall to let Philip Morris USA and three other big tobacco companies delay making multimillion-dollar payments for a program to help people quit smoking. Scalia, a cigarette smoker himself, justified acting on his own by predicting that at least three other justices would [...] |
Supreme Court limits Wal-Mart sex bias case
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court blocked the largest sex-discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history on Monday, siding with Wal-Mart and against up to 1.6 million female workers in a decision that makes it harder to mount large-scale bias claims against the nation’s other huge companies, too. The justices all agreed that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores [...] |
Justices impose limits on class actions
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the ability of people to combine forces and fight corporations together when they want to dispute contracts for cell phones, cable television and other services, a move consumer advocates called a crushing blow. In a 5-4 ideological split, the high court’s conservatives said businesses can block their [...] |
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