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• IMMORAL: SCOTUS to allow John Muhammad to die

  
  The TIW Blog — Authority: 498
  Chances are (because you read this site) you agree with me most of the time on at least some of the issues we discuss. I say this so that you are not alarmed at my view that the Supreme Court of the United States has once again behaved in a most immoral manner by allowing the execution of the beltway sniper jihadist ...
  8 hours ago

• Bilski Math

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
  The following post comes from Prof. Jay Dratler, Jr. : The case of Bilski v. Kappos , argued yesterday before the Supreme Court, 2009 Term, No. 08-964, addresses a question vital to the survival of our free enterprise system. (Number citations are to pages and lines of the oral argument transcript .) Can anyone ...
  8 hours ago

• No Joke: Nota Bene for 9 November 2009

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 588
  Well I figured I’d give you all a break and spare you the wacky and profane puns and snark. I’m going to directly quote a single line or phrase from each of the links; the quote may have little or nothing to do with the subject. Enjoy! … “So I finally squeezed his bullocks a bit to get his recipe” … “ ...
  16 hours ago

• Editorial: Letting big money in | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/08/2009

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The Philadelphia Inquirer tackles the issue of allowing big special interest money to flow into elections and suggests the Fair Elections Now Act as the solution.   »  noticia original
  19 hours ago

• Bilski v. Kappos Legal Documents - Reference List

  
  JD Scoop — Authority: 465
  Today the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos . For your reference, weve put together a reading list of legal documents to do with the case, including the official transcript of todays arguments: Filings & Court Docs : Bilski Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court - ...
  21 hours ago

• Foreign Contributions and the Supreme’s Overdue Decision on Campaign Funding

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The US Supreme Court will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual flood of unrestricted corporate contributions? An additional outcome may surprise and shock ...
  1 day ago

• After Forcibly and Illegally Removing The Legitimate Landowners

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 488
  Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking By: Timothy P. Carney Examiner Columnist 11/09/09 1:47 PM EST The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds , a monument to the power ...
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• Weighing Life in Prison for Youths Who Didn’t Kill

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 480
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in Florida. On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear appeals from two ...
  1 day ago

• Obviousness at the Supreme Court: Bilski Oral Arguments

  
  Chicago IP Litigation Blog — Authority: 416
  The Supreme Court hears oral argument today in Bilski v. Kappos .  The Court will decide the proper test for obviousness and will either decide or at least significantly impact the patentability of software and business method patents.  Here are the questions presented: Whether the Federal Circuit erred by ...
  1 day ago

• Nov. 8th, a day of Two Blesseds: John Duns Scotus, Elizabeth of the Trinity

  
  AirMaria.com — Authority: 484
  Ave Maria Meditations b. 1266 — d. 1308 DOCTOR SUBTILIS: THEOLOGIAN OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION and FOUNDER OF THE SCOTISTIC SCHOOL OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY, a FRIAR MINOR Blessed John Duns Scotus: Defender of the Immaculate Conception Next to St. Bonaventure, Bl. John is perhaps the ...
  2 days ago

• On SCOTUS Cases And Juveniles In Jail For Life

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  My social work field placement was in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in 1989-1990.  A large chunk of my work was conducting a part of the process performed that leads to the clinicians providing information to the jurists so that they can decide whether or not a minor is “amenable” to treatment or other ...
  2 days ago

• On SCOTUS Cases and Juveniles in Jail for Life

  
  Writes Like She Talks — Authority: 404
  My social work field placement was in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in 1989-1990.  A large chunk of my work was conducting a part of the process performed that leads to the clinicians providing information to the jurists so that they can decide whether or not a minor is “amenable” to treatment or other ...
  2 days ago

• Should Kids Get Life Without Parole?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  My answer is NO! The Supreme Court will hear appeals from two juvenile offenders on Monday arguing the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids life in prison for crimes other than homicide. (The court ruled in the 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision that it was unconstitutional to impose ...
  2 days ago

• A "perverse" position on prosecutors fabricating evidence ... by the Obama Administration

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 574
  Wednesday the US Supreme Court held oral arguments on an important case regarding prosecutorial misconduct, where prosecutors sought absolute immunity when they fabricate evidence to frame a defendant if the information is used at trial. In looking at the transcript (pdf) from Pottawatamie County v. McGhee, it was ...
  4 days ago

• Incorporation Via Privileges and Immunities

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 134
  Where do our federal constitutional protections from conduct by state and local actors come from? Mostly, through incorporation of the Bill of Rights via the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Another route to secure a similar result, via the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment was ...
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• A Civics Lesson

  
  eCache — Authority: 129
  The United States Constitution lays out the role of the federal government, not a municipal government. The Constitution was needed for the Articles of Confederation failed the young nation. Strong states muscled smaller states. Each state minted its own money. While free of the rule (and taxes) of England, a ...
  5 days ago

• There are Rights, and Then There’s What Is Right

  
  Stump Lane — Authority: 420
  THE SUPREME COURT IS HEARING the case of two men who were wrongly convicted and spent 25 years in the slammer before being exonerated. The Supreme Court has indeed said that prosecutors are immune from suit for anything they do at trial. But in this case, Harrington and McGhee maintain that before anyone being ...
  5 days ago

• Is There A Right Not To Be Framed?

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 134
  Does a prosecutor who fakes evidence in the pre-trial phase of a criminal case, and then introduces it at trial to procure a wrongful conviction, have absolute immunity from being sued under federal civil rights laws for doing so? This is the issue that the Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court discussed at oral ...
  6 days ago

• Voter ID…What’s The Big Deal?

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 439
  If you want to vote, vote once and know your vote is counted as one.The Sibyl asks about today’s close elections, “Why would the POTUS put himself out there on a limb; betting his political future on the results of off-year elections?”Seems like ACORN will play an important role again.  Haven’t we had ...
  1 week ago

• True American that Liberals HATE

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 541
  Rush speaks out: > Marie Woods wanted to share the following link with you: > http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/01/limbaugh_obama_is_a_threat_to_liberty.html
  1 week ago

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