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The Day Obscenity Became Art »
Posted by: Beau7890 4 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
TODAY is the 50th anniversary of the court ruling that overturned America's obscenity laws, setting off an explosion of free speech -- and also, in ...
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US authorities To deport Nazi »
Posted by: Mikunited 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
He says he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war.
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Breaking: SCOTUS stops Chrysler sale »
Posted by: pc25 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Supreme Court, in an order signed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has stopped the sale of Chrysler to Fiat and the bankruptcy plan engineered ...
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Breaking: Supreme Court Overrules Sotomayor On Ricci Decision ...More- Sotomayor Overturned 66% of Time »
Posted by: pc25 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
It looks like the "wise latina woman with the richness of her experience" was a bit off on this one.
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Supreme Court rules against free speech in broadcasting »
Posted by: memestryker 6 months, 4 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON; The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Tuesday in favor of a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a single ...
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Life Without Parole: 'Cruel and Unusual' for Teenage Rapist? »
Posted by: WikiMap 2 weeks ago in News
Four years after banning the death penalty for juvenile offenders, the Supreme Court Monday will consider whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence ...
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Marijuana Ban Ruled Unconstitutional in Argentina »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 4 weeks ago in News
To Americans, who can't seem to agree on medical marijuana use, which has been shown to improve quality of life for sufferers of many ...
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Sudanese 'trousers woman' jailed for "dressing indecently" »
Posted by: pervezmzn 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A Sudanese woman has been jailed for a month after refusing to pay a fine for "dressing indecently" by wearing trousers, her lawyers say.
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AP sources: Obama picks Sotomayor for high court - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: Pecossam 6 months ago in News
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama tapped federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history ...
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Schwarzenegger decides against defending Prop. 8 in federal court - Los Angeles Times »
Posted by: david_nwpa 5 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declined to defend the constitutionality of Proposition 8, telling a San Francisco judge that the legality of the anti-gay marriage measure ...
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How the Supreme Court Got Boumediene Wrong: Rethinking Habeas&Other Fundamental 'Constitutional Rights' »
Posted by: jovial 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As any honest observer can see, a rather sad result arises from applying " American exceptionalism" to the law. If people (insofar as lawyers can be ...
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Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years »
Posted by: Xaos 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Bernard Madoff, the mastermind of the largest and most sweeping Ponzi scheme ever, faces the possibility Monday of being sent to prison for the rest ...
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NY judge rises from projects to the Supreme Court »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months ago in Political News
NEW YORK - Sonia Sotomayor's path to the pinnacle of the legal profession began in the 1960s at a Bronx housing project just a couple ...
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Man tried to hire prostitute for his son, 14 »
Posted by: BronxBomber 6 months ago in Family
LONDON (Reuters)
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A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a ...Read (225) | Share | Discuss (8) | Read Full Story at news.yahoo.com
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Roberts Shifts Court to Right, With Help From Kennedy »
Posted by: engineer 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as a canny strategist at the Supreme Court this term, laying the groundwork for bold changes that could ...
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