Justices side with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake

June 4, 2018 Leave a comment

In this March 10, 2014 file photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips cracks eggs into a cake batter mixer inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. The Supreme Court is taking on a new clash between gay rights and religion in a case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado. The justices said Monday, June 26, 2017, they will consider whether a baker who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds can refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

The Supreme Court is setting aside a Colorado court ruling against a baker who wouldn't make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

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Baker decision won’t be justices’ last word on LGBT rights

June 1, 2018 Leave a comment

This Feb. 17, 2016, file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A flood of lawsuits over LGBT rights is making its way through courts and will continue, no matter the outcome in the Supreme Court's highly anticipated decision in the case of a Colorado baker who would not create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

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Supreme Court Notebook: Kagan recalls clerking for Marshall

March 8, 2018 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan participates in a question and answer program about her time sitting on the high court at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Justice Elena Kagan recalled the moment 30 years ago when Justice Thurgood Marshall looked at her "as though I must have lost my mind."

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Supreme Court justice cancels visit after wife fractures hip

July 17, 2017 Leave a comment

In this July 15, 2015, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in San Diego. Kennedy has emerged as a powerful new ally for prison reform advocates who have spent years campaigning against solitary confinement. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has cancelled his visit to a federal judicial conference in San Francisco after his wife fractured her hip in Austria. The Supreme Court said in a statement on Friday that Kennedy ...

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As Kennedy goes, so goes the Supreme Court

January 30, 2017 Leave a comment

Justice Anthony Kennedy leads news summary that includes a crime victim resorting to self help, a student's revenge and advice from immigration attorneys.

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Was Justice Kennedy robbed by ‘Time’?

January 4, 2016 Leave a comment

A vote for Justice Kennedy for Person of the Year heads news summary that includes a right-to-park argument, a tour of California's death row and an investigation into alleged disability bias ends.

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Supreme Court strikes down ‘born in Jerusalem’ passport law

June 8, 2015 Leave a comment

In this Nov. 3, 2014 file photo, Menachem Zivotofsky and his father Ari Zivotofsky speaks to media outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has struck down a disputed law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their U.S. passports. It's an important ruling that underscores the president's authority in foreign affairs. The court ruled 6-3 Monday that Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the law in 2002. It would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

WASHINGTON — Siding with the White House in a foreign-policy power struggle with Congress, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Americans born in the disputed city of Jerusalem can’t list Israel as their birthplace on passports. In a 6-3 ruling, ...

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Law blog roundup

July 1, 2013 Leave a comment

Family court judge tells mother: "You're going to Disneyland!"

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Supreme Court reinstates Md. DNA law

June 3, 2013 Leave a comment

A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a Maryland law that permits police to collect DNA samples from people arrested on charges of committing or attempting to commit a violent crime.

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States’ rights issue could doom DOMA

March 27, 2013 Leave a comment

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act as an unconstitutional intrusion on the authority of states to regulate marriage.

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