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• Kerchner V Obama, Appeal, November 14, 2009, Update, Charles Kerchner, Mario Apuzzo, U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Philadelphia PA, Obama not natural born citizen

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  Just in from Charles Kerchner, lead plantiff in Kerchner V Obama, Congress, November 14, 2009. “The Kerchner v Obama & Congress lawsuit has been appealed and is now formally Docketed by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia PA as docket number 09-4209. Copy available via this link.” ...
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• Feingold: Sept. 11 Prosecutions Will Advance Justice and American World Standing

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 536
  The decision to prosecute five people accused of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in federal court in New York drew support Friday from US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) in comments at a one-hour discussion at Marquette University Law School. “That’s the way to go,” said Feingold, who has been ...
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• Do the Justices Play Nicely Together?

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 536
  For the second autumn in a row, the federal public defenders here in Milwaukee were kind enough to invite me to speak on the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal docket, reviewing last term’s cases and previewing the new term.  The event is a great opportunity for me to think about patterns and themes that cut across ...
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• Revised Prison Plan Goes to Federal Court

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  Brian Leubitz Last we heard from the prison situation, the three judge panel had told the state to do better than their plan to reduce the population by 27,000.  Yesterday, the administration presented a plan to release the 40,000+ that the court had ordered, ...
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• SCOTUS Fantasy League Debuts

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 536
  Hey, Supreme Court buffs, think you can handicap the high court’s cases better than you can Packers games?  If so, you might want to join the Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League .  As detailed in this post on the WSJ Law Blog , participants gets points for accurately predicting not only the bottom-line outcome ...
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• Justice Sonia Sotomayor loves our country and a good manicure

  
  Polichicks Online — Authority: 120
    Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is on the cover of the December issue of Latina (on stands November 17).   She strikes a patriotic pose with her hand over her heart. (Note her fab brick red nail polish.) Latina is honoring Justice Sotomayor as the Woman of the Decade.    
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• Why It Is So Important to Have Women On the Supreme Court

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Well, there are a lot of reasons we should have more women on the U.S. Supreme Court, but I was recently struck by the difference in questioning by the two women and the seven male justices deciding whether it was okay to lock up juvenile offenders for life without parole -- even when they dont kill anybody. The ...
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• Sotomayor Opts for Red Nails and ‘a Friend with No Strings Attached’

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor had doubts about taking a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Three weeks before the nomination was announced, Sotomayor confessed to a friend that she was considering withdrawing her name from consideration, Latina magazine reports. The Associated Press has the highlights. Sotomayor was worried ...
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• Justice O’Connor’s Husband Dies at 79

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  The husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died. John O’Connor, a lawyer who worked at Miller & Chevalier and Bryan Cave, was 79, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. He died of complications from Alzheimers disease. The O’Connors met at Stanford Law School. Justice ...
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• Alito Concurrence ‘Rejects ABA’s Nonsense,’ Commentator Says

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  A concurring opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the ABA’s capital representation standards and the associations membership has one conservative commentator doing the blog equivalent of a victory dance. On Monday Alito wrote separately—and “curiously,” in the words of the National Law Journal—to ...
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• After Two Unfortunate Misquotes, Justice Kennedy’s Office Takes Action

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  U.S. Supreme Court justices have been the victim of some unfortunate misquotes in recent news accounts of their speeches. Now the office of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is doing something about it. Justice Antonin Scalia didn’t really say he would have dissented in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark ...
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• Quote of the Day: Supremes Reconsider Life Sentences for Juvie Thugs

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 609
  By Debbie SchlusselLast month, I published a column on, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida, two cases the U.S. Supreme Court is considering, which challenge life sentences in prison for juveniles, claiming they are cruel and unusual punishment.  There are 110 juvenile convicts, nationwide, who are serving life ...
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• The Brown v. Board of Education Question: What Would Scalia Do?

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  Justice Antonin Scalia said in a 2005 New Yorker profile that he would have voted with the majority in the Brown v. Board of Education decision ending segregation, but he didn’t go quite that far in a recent debate. Brown v. Board of Education can be hard to square with originalism, which holds that the Constitution ...
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• Justices Consider Patentability of Speed Dating and Horse Whispering

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  Justice Stephen G. Breyer says he has a “great, wonderful, really original method of teaching antitrust law”—it keeps 80 percent of his students awake. Can the method be patented? he asked in oral arguments yesterday. The hypothetical was one of several bandied about as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral ...
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• Roberts Suggests Middle Ground in Arguments Over Life Sentences for Juveniles

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  The problem of drawing lines became a focus at yesterday’s oral arguments on whether the Constitution bars a sentence of life without parole for juveniles who don’t commit murder. A majority of justices appeared to agree that age should be taken into account when judges impose such a sentence, the New York Times ...
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• Chief Justice Featured on Baseball Card

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  The publication that created Supreme Court bobbleheads for its subscribers is coming out with a new item: Supreme Court Sluggers baseball cards. The first baseball card (PDF) issued by the Green Bag law publication features Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the pose of Chicago Cubs pitcher Mordecai "Three Fingers" ...
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• U.S. Supreme Court to decide juvenile life sentences

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 439
  Legal news for criminal lawyers. The Supreme Court will decide if life in prison without parole for juveniles is unconstitutional. U.S. Supreme Court will decided if it is cruel and unusual punishment for juveniles to be sentenced to life in prison without parole for non-homicide crimes. Washington, D.C.—Monday, ...
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• Bilski v. Kappos Legal Documents - Reference List

  
  JD Scoop — Authority: 418
  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 - ...
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• Supreme Court Denies Execution Stay for Convicted Sniper

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 677
  The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to delay a Tuesday evening execution for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad. The court refused to grant a stay and also refused to hear an appeal filed by lawyers for Muhammad, SCOTUSblog reports. Muhammad’s cert petition had asserted that the appeal of his Virginia conviction ...
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• Supreme Court Hearing Two Cases on Juvenile (In)justice

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 550
  Today the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could hopefully change how the (in)justice system sentences juveniles. The cases specifically deal with sentencing youth to life without parole and if that is unconstitutional. The cases being used are that of Terrance Jamar Graham and Joe Sullivan , who were 16 and ...
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