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Remand on Cross-Border Shooting Case Hernandez v Mesa

Remand on Cross-Border Shooting Case Hernandez v Mesa

In a per curium opinion in Hernandez v Mesa, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and remanded the cas...

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Pavan v Smith: SCOTUS Reaffirms Rights of Same-Sex Couples

Pavan v Smith: SCOTUS Reaffirms Rights of Same-Sex Couples

In Pavan v Smith, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed an Arkansas State Supreme Court decision that prevented same-sex married couples from having both spouses...

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SCOTUS Revives Part of Trump Administration’s Travel Ban

High Court Revives Part of Trump Administration’s Travel Ban

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to proceed. In Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the Court...

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Partisan Gerrymandering Case-Gerrymander

U.S. Supreme Court Takes on Blockbuster Partisan Gerrymandering Case

Now that it’s back at full strength, the Supreme Court is no longer shying away from the blockbusters. The justices recently agreed to consider Gill v. Whitford, which involves...

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social media ban

High Court Strikes Down Social Media Ban for Sex Offenders

In Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a North Carolina law prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessing social med...

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Matal v Tam: SCOTUS Lifts Disparaging Trademark Ban

Matal v Tam: Supreme Court Holds Disparaging Trademark Ban Violates First Amendment

In Matal v Tam (formerly Lee v. Tam), 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on registering disparaging trademarks. According to the unani...

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One Gender

Citizenship Rule Favoring One Gender Is Unconstitutional

In Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a citizenship rule favoring unwed mothers over unwed fathers violated the U.S. Constituti...

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FDCPA Case

Justice Gorsuch Authors First Opinion in FDCPA Case

In Henson v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc., 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a company may collect debts that it purchased for its own account w...

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Honeycutt v United States 2017

Honeycutt v United States: Clarity on Joint and Several Federal Criminal Asset Forfeiture

In Honeycutt v United States, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that joint and several liability does not apply to criminal asset forfeiture under the under the...

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Town of Chester v Laroe Estates, Inc: Supreme Court Rules Intervenors Must Have Standing

Town of Chester v Laroe Estates, Inc: Supreme Court Rules Intervenors Must Have Standing

In Town of Chester v Laroe Estates, Inc, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a litigant seeking to intervene as of right under Federal Rule Of Procedure 24(a)...

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SCOTUS Wraps Up Oral Arguments for the Term
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 17, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court has concluded its oral arguments for the October 2021 Term. The justices hea...

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SCOTUS Rules Censure of Elected Board Member Didn’t Violate First Amendment
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 10, 2022

In Houston Community College System v. Wilson, 595 U.S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held th...

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Supreme Court Breach Is Not the First Involving Roe v. Wade
by DONALD SCARINCI on

The recent disclosure of Justice Samuel Alito’s decision purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade is ar...

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The Amendments

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    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedoms of Press
    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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