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PHOENIX>> An Arizona appeals court today upheld a Phoenix anti-discrimination law that makes it illegal for businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples because of religion. Breanna Koski, left, and Joanna Duka in Phoenix.
The Trump administration told a federal court Thursday it won't defend Obamacare against a lawsuit that's trying to strike down most of the law. It's a notable stance that means it will be up to Obamacare fans such as Democratic governors to step in and defend the Affordable Care Act against on onslaught from GOP attorneys general, who say after Congress nixed the individual mandate at the heart of the law, the rest of it should follow.
Patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C 101 has been a hot topic in the past few years and in view of several U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including the 2014 case Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. V. CLS Bank Int'l, 134 S. Ct. 2347.
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death-row inmate Andre Thomas, from Texoma, Texas. Attorneys for Thomas, who removed his only eye and ate it in a bizarre outburst several years ago, are arguing to a federal appeals court that he's too mentally ill to be executed for killing his estranged wife's 13-month old daughter.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hand down its decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which challenges the ability of public sector unions to collect "fair share" fees from workers who are covered by a negotiated union contract but don't want to join the union.
A new report , originally ordered by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and released by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts , exposes a number of sexual harassment issues and general incivility inside the U.S. Court system. "On December 20, 2017, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., asked the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to establish a working group to examine the sufficiency of the safeguards currently in place within the Judiciary to protect all court employees from inappropriate conduct in the workplace," the report states.
"It is largely eclipsed by some of its other rulings and non-rulings of the day, but one of the most interesting things that the Supreme Court failed to decide yesterday was how lower courts are supposed to read a 4-1-4 Supreme Court decision with no majority opinion. The case is Hughes v.
If anyone tells you that gay rights lost at the Supreme Court, you can tell them how wrong they are. A lot of digital ink was spilled in the last day decrying the Supreme Court's ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v.
The Alabama man served nearly 30 years on death row before he was set free in 2015 after prosecutors determined he did not fire the gun that killed two fast-food managers during separate robberies in 1985. "I shouldn't have sat on death row for 30 years," Hinton said outside the Jefferson County Jail when he was exonerated.
American Jewish groups expressed mixed reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision on a controversial Colorado baker's refusal to serve a gay couple. In a 7-2 decision on the Masterpiece Cakeshop v.
In the hours following the US Supreme Court narrowly sided in a favor of Christian bakery's ability to turn away gay couples, several of Oklahoma's members of Congress praised the decision, while one of the state's most prominent LGBTQ rights groups appeared cautiously optimistic. The case surrounded Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, CO.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1988 that the appointment of an independent counsel was constitutional, but the rules and circumstances were a little different then. And the Supreme Court has not spoken directly on the constitutionality of current regulations for special counsels.
It seems almost quaint today. But back when Barack Obama was president, Republicans strenuously objected to his expansive use of executive orders to maneuver around Congress on issues like climate change and immigration.
"Nearly three quarters of U.S. adults believe that businesses should not have the right on religious grounds to deny services to customers based on their sexual orientation, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday showed. The findings of the poll, conducted Friday to Monday, were issued on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a baker from Colorado who had refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his Christian beliefs.
The US Supreme Court has ruledin favour of a Colorado baker who objected to baking a cake for a same-sex couple. The court voted 7-2 in favour of the man but the decision is raising broader constitutional questions.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who had refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. The court's decision was narrow, and it left open the larger question of whether a business can discriminate against gay men and lesbians based on rights protected by the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because it violated his religious beliefs. In the opinion issued by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court disagreed with a Colorado court's previous ruling that the gay couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, had been discriminated against based on sexual orientation.
President Donald Trump claimed he has an "absolute right" to pardon himself, part of an extraordinarily expansive vision of executive authority that is mostly untested in court and could portend a drawn-out fight with the prosecutors now investigating him. No need of a pardon anyway, Trump tweeted Monday, because "I have done nothing wrong."
Mueller Accuses Paul Manafort of Attempted Witness Tampering - Federal prosecutors on Monday accused President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and lobbying case. - In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel Manafort attempted to tamper with potential witnesses: U.S. special counsel - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who has been indicted by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, attempted to tamper with potential witnesses, Mueller said in a court filing on Monday.
In this March 10, 2014, file photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. The Supreme Court is setting aside a Colorado court ruling against a baker who wouldnt make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.