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...Schuette is a big deal because it revisits the court’s “political-process doctrine” – developed in Hunter v Erickson (1969) and Seattle v Washington (1982) – which frame the court’s approach to guarantees...
...This new recording, by contrast, captures a pathetic intimate quarrel between Mr Sterling and a 31-year-old woman, V Stiviano....
...When solicitor general Donald Verrilli came before the US Supreme Court to argue the Obama administration’s side in Shelby County v Holder in February, Chief Justice John Roberts peppered him with trivia...
...In two recent cases – District of Columbia v Heller (2008) and McDonald v Chicago (2010) – the Supreme Court has raised high hurdles against gun control....
...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...The Supreme Court ruled unanimously a week ago in US v Jones that tracking a criminal suspect by GPS required a warrant....
...In the 1984 case, Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, the US Supreme Court ruled that, while speech is a protected right, overnight camping is not....
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...If Griswold v Connecticut, Roe v Wade, and other cases that led to the legalisation of abortion in the US had really established a credible “right to privacy”, we would surely hear it invoked and asserted...
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...In her majority opinion in the Planned Parenthood v Casey abortion case of 1992, US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of...
...Pontiac did not just have an eight-cylinder engine – it had a “Strato-Streak V-8 + Strato-Flight Hydra-Matic”. (Why “hydra”?, some will wonder – was it a steam engine?)...
...And no company has ever faced a class-action suit larger than Dukes v Wal-Mart, which on Tuesday was given the go-ahead by a divided panel of three federal judges in California....
...Among the grounds for banning polygamy in Reynolds v US (1878) was that it was “contrary to the spirit of Christianity”. Such moral rationales tend not to impress western courts today....
...The 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v Doe held that children of illegal immigrants had the same right to public education as US citizens. But there is a limit to this process....
...In Feist Publications v Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc (1991), the US Supreme Court ruled that facts cannot be copyrighted....
...The problem is that there are excellent reasons besides opposition to abortion to deplore Roe v Wade....
...In Griswold v Connecticut (1966), Justice William O....
...Ms Sullivan’s book that it deals with a federal court case (Warner v....
...Roe v Wade resulted in abortion regulations somewhat more liberal than those in even the most liberal countries in Europe and vastly less stable....
...As Gerald V....
...The referendum also violates a constitutional principle upheld by the Supreme Court in Bush v Gore: that only state legislatures have the right to choose electors....
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