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• SCOTUS takes government prayer case

  
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  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment case involving town board meetings in Greece, N.Y., that include prayer. The Supreme Court granted the cert petition (PDF) on Monday, SCOTUSblog reports. It’s reportedly the first time in three decades that the…
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• Woman who filed vaccine suit too late can still get attorney fees, Supreme Court says

  
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  Melissa Cloer filed suit too late to win any potential damages for her claimed injury from hepatitis B vaccines. But that doesnt preclude an award of attorney fees under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Monday opinion (PDF) authored by Justice…
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• Supreme Court Rules Local Towns Can’t Hold Up Cell Towers

  
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  The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Federal Communications Commission regarding a dispute over cell towers. Wireless industry players complained to the FCC that local governments are often slowing down the process to adjust existing cell towers or install new ones. The FCC recommends that local jurisdictions ...
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• Legal Events to Watch This Week

  
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  This week: Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta will ask a federal appeals court to throw out his insider-trading conviction.
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• U.S. Catholic Bishops Step Up Anti-Gay Efforts

  
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  While we continue to see sex abuse scandals exploding around the world - e.g., Australia and now Africa -  involving sexual predator priests and a Vatican orchestrated conspiracy to cover up crimes and protect child rapists what do the U. S. Catholic bishops focus their efforts on?  Stopping gay marriage and placing ...
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• U.S. Supreme Ct. to Consider One of My Cases at 5/23 Conference

  
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  Well, this made my day   Just learned that the Petition for a Writ of Cert which I filed in Kyle Ray DeCoteau v. United States (Case No. 12-01285) will be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court at its May 23, 2013 conference.    It’s my first request for U.S. Supreme Court review and involves some interesting ...
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• Texas inmate executed for fatal drug-deal robbery

  
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  A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow drug dealer while robbing him outside of a Waco convenience store 10 years ago was executed Tuesday evening. In the seconds before being injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, Carroll Joe Parr told the wife of his victim that she should talk ...
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• Vermont Supreme Court appeal on Obama natural born citizen status, H. Brooke Paige standing, Attorney Todd Daloz flawed arguments, Standing non issue, Constitution and duties ignored

  
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  Vermont Supreme Court appeal on Obama natural born citizen status, H. Brooke Paige standing, Attorney Todd Daloz flawed arguments, Standing non issue, Constitution and duties ignored “Why has Obama, since taking the White House, used Justice Department Attorneys, at taxpayer expense,  to avoid presenting a ...
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• Alito and Roberts are the most pro-businesses justices since 1946, study finds

  
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  Not every decision by the Roberts court has favored businesses. But the U.S. Supreme Court is more pro-business in its rulings than any other since 1946, according to a new study. And two of its justices are also the most pro-business among 36 who served on the court since World…
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• Protesters On Both Sides Of Marriage Equality Issue Converge At Rep. Sandacks Office (VIDEO)

  
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  State Rep. Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove) , one of two Republicans in the Illinois House to publicly  express support for same-sex marriage, defended his position Saturday in front of rival organizations demonstrating outside his office. Activist groups from both sides of the issue gathered to condemn or cheer on ...
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• Cert denial could lead to boost in federal judges’ pay

  
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  Federal judges may be closer to winning promised cost-of-living adjustments after the U.S. Supreme Court declined cert last month in an appeal by six present and former federal judges. The judges in Beer v. United States claimed the failure to pay COLA increases for six different years amounted to a…
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• Cook County Sheriff To Propose A Concealed Carry Measure

  
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  News links:  Chicago Sun-Times Sheriff Tom Dart has announced plans to propose  a concealed carry measure for Cook County. The Illinois General Assembly has yet to come to a consensus on a law that would legalize concealed carry in Illinois. State ...
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• Adopt the Marketplace Fairness Act

  
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  By Edward A. Zelinsky The Marketplace Fairness Act, now being debated in the US Senate, is a rare phenomenon: a bill with strong bi-partisan support and an accurate title. The Act would indeed establish fairness in the marketplace by imposing on out-of-state internet and mail order sellers the same sales tax ...
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• Supreme Court Gives Madigan More Time For Concealed Carry Appeal

  
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  The U.S. Supreme Court is giving Illinois attorney general more time to decide whether to appeal a ruling that the states ban on the public possession of firearms is unconstitutional.
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• Law prof Chemerinsky offers a syllabus on how the high court can polish its publicity

  
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• Law prof Chemerinsky offers a syllabus on how the high court can polish its publicity

  
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• LGBT lawyers join high court bar

  
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• May 6, 1882: Congress passes first major law restricting immigration

  
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• Madigan Seeks Extension On Concealed Carry Appeal

  
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  Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday for more time to decide whether to appeal a courts ruling that the states ban on the public possession of firearms is unconstitutional.
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• Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor: Maybe Bush v. Gore Was a Mistake

  
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  "Maybe"? Ya think?! From Chicago Tribune , on their recent interview with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor about 2000s infamous Bush v. Gore case... Looking back, OConnor said, she isnt sure the high court should have taken the case. "It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a ...
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