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...Lilah RaptopoulosYou’ve probably heard that the 1950s, sixties and seventies were a time of big change in America, and the court had a big part in that....
...And in the centre of that ring, we have the state of Illinois, where Chicago is....
...One of his most consequential votes was on Bush v Gore, the controversial ruling that handed George W Bush the White House in 2000....
...general of the United States....
...Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalised same-sex marriage, and efforts are under way in Illinois, Minnesota and Rhode Island. Activists hope the Supreme Court will take note....
...I have to end the post on the epic basketball game played between Kellogg & Chicago Booth prior to the Chicago Bulls V Milwaukee Bucks NBA match at the United Center....
...The public is hostile to that idea and the courts have been sceptical. In the 1984 case, Clark v....
...of Illinois from “caveat emptor” to “caveat vendor”, as he puts it....
...The court saw two constitutional grounds for forbidding a state to collect sales tax: due process and interstate commerce....
...To cheers from the CME Group’s trading floor, he went on to say: “This is America!...
...This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Christian Legal Society v Martinez, which revolves around the question of whether a Christian group violates anti-discrimination law if it insists that...
...in the United States and its territories … Named Defendants combined and conspired to allocate customers and fix and stabilize the prices of municipal derivatives, including the interest rates paid to...
...lawsuits from “various state attorneys general”: Lawsuits brought by the state attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Florida and Illinois in their respective state courts....
...Just this week, the US Supreme Court agreed to reconsider this quintessentially American proposition by reviewing the case of Williams v Big Tobacco, in which Williams’s widow won nearly $80m from Philip...
...chances of winning in court....
...Everyone agrees that MercExchange vs eBay before the United States Supreme Court is shaping up as one of the biggest patent battles anywhere in many a moon....
...Although some invasions of privacy have been trammelled – the sale of personal data by certain state motor-vehicle registries, for instance – the courts have generally left any mention of Griswold or Roe...
...In the 1968 case of Shlensky v Wrigley, the Illinois Court of Appeals considered the case of a minority shareholder who sued the company that controlled the Chicago Cubs baseball club for refusing to install...
...At the meeting Laurian Unnevehr, professor in the department of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, did question the motivation of such moves....
...It would, moreover, follow the string of humiliating court defeats in 2002, when the Court of First Instance overturned three merger prohibitions in the space of a few months....
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