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- Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection Use
  Posted by Jeff from Truth Out
  "We ... agree that petitioners have not carried their burden of showing that the risk of pain from maladministration of a concededly humane lethal injection protocol, and the failure to adopt untried and untested alternatives, constitute cruel and unusual punishment," Chief Justice John Roberts said in an opinion that garnered only three votes. Four other justices, however, agreed with the outcome.
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- Supreme Court Inc.: Heading toward fascism?
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Today, however, there are no economic populists on the court, even on the liberal wing. And ever since John Roberts was appointed chief justice in 2005, the court has seemed only more receptive to business concerns. Forty percent of the cases the court heard last term involved business interests, up from around 30 percent in recent years.
  
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- U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review $2.5 billion in punitive damages in Exxon Valdez case
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Roberts' court off the rails? The company has been battling the judgment for more than a decade. The company has managed to get the award cut in half from the original $5 billion awarded in 1994 by an Anchorage jury in the class-action suit.
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- Top court upholds abortion ban
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  “Today’s decision is alarming,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. She said the ruling “refuses to take ... seriously” previous Supreme Court decisions on abortion.
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- Top Court: EPA Can Control Emissions
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  Huge loss for Bush. How important is court control: "The court's four conservative justices _ Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas _ dissented."
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- Court hears 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  "This is a case about free speech," said Mertz. "It is not a case about drugs." I heard that the kid wasn't even at a school event. Essentially, they are trying to limit free speech of a student when he's outside school grounds and oversight. Can anyone confirm that?
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- Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like power, the court expanded the Copyright Act in the Grokster case to cover a form of liability it had never before recognized in the context of copyright — the wrong of providing technology that induces copyright infringement. It announced this new form of liability even though at precisely the same time Congress was holding hearings about whether to amend the Copyright Act ...
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Damianmann comments on:
Duo take Obama birth challenge to Court

er…....

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4:17 pm 11/26/08
Jeff comments on:
NYT Lock and Load - Supreme Court Ruling on Gun Rights

An extremely well written argument against yesterday’s right-wing ruling on the Court.

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3:09 pm 6/27/08
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Supreme Court rejects death for child rape

I saw today that Obama came out in support of the death penalty for child rape:
"I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," Obama said at a news conference. "I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution."

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12:08 pm 6/26/08
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Supreme Court rejects death for child rape

Life in prison is good enough…if they survive. It’s not like child rapists get to live the life of Reilly(Riley?) in prison.

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4:26 pm 6/25/08
Jon comments on:
Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos

Definitely worth a read: Lessig is one of the more interesting legal minds out there.

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9:13 am 3/18/07
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Justices Back Most G.O.P. Changes to Texas Districts
The Supreme Court is losing its legitimacy.
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9:02 am 6/28/06

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