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The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the Constitution's privacy protection to vehicles that are parked the driveway or carport of a home, ruling police need a search warrant first before they may inspect them. In general, police may stop and look closely at cars that are parked along public roads.
Justices of the US Supreme Court sit for their official group photo in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. Seated : Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice of the US John G. Roberts, Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer.
On Tuesday, May 29... The U.S. Supreme Court has declined the appeal of an Ohio inmate who has maintained his innocence in the 1994 slaying of three people. . This undated photo provided by the Whistler family shows Ella Whistler.
Trump Pulls Conspiracy Theories From the Fringes to the Oval Office - WASHINGTON - As a candidate, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks.
The home stretch of California's statewide primary election is here, and all the big questions in this political season have one thing in common. They begin with the disruptive nature of the top-two primary, an electoral juggernaut that party leaders hate and candidates treat, at best, with lukewarm praise.
The Supreme Court is heading into the final month of its term, facing decisions on gerrymandering, unions, gay rights, abortion and President Donald Trump's travel ban. This term's best-known case is a culture-war clash that pits equal rights for gay customers against a claim of religious liberty from a Christian store owner.
On May 27, 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. O'Brien, upheld the conviction of David O'Brien for destroying his draft card outside a Boston courthouse, ruling that the act was not protected by freedom of speech.
A post on Investor's Business Daily asserts the merger could be a threat to US regional casino operators', BYD, CZR, and PENN, sports betting hopes. PPB's Golden Nugget NJ operation leads but is heavily dependent on casino games and poker.
Judges and appeals court justices are not supposed to make new laws. Their role under our checks-and-balances system is limited to interpreting laws and state and national constitutions.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and lawyer Paul Clement often find themselves on opposite sides of issues he argues and she helps decide at the high court. But at a recent event in Washington, Kagan and Clement agreed new administrations should be sparing in changing their predecessors' positions in pending Supreme Court cases.
Foie gras producers and an acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their appeal of a Ninth Circuit Court ruling, which upheld California's wrongheaded foie gras ban. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will take the case because it could have lasting implications for the future of animal agriculture in America.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues. CNN reports the decision could affect 25 million employment contracts.
The Justice Department has taken California to court over its status as a "sanctuary state," a term that refers to places where state and local officials refuse to participate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. In a speech announcing the suit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions accused the Golden State of creating "an open borders system," something he denounced as "a radical, irrational idea that cannot be accepted."
For more than a decade, the federal courts in the Eastern District of Texas were the undisputed Mecca for patent litigation. Businesses and individuals often filed double or triple the number of patent infringement lawsuits in East Texas than any other court districts in the country.
A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together in disputes over pay and conditions in the workplace, a decision that affects an estimated 25 million non-unionized employees. With the court's five conservative members in the majority, the justices held that individual employees can be forced to use arbitration, not the courts, to air complaints about wages and overtime.
Regulators in the US and Canada have been investigating over 70 cryptocurrency-related companies for fraud and shady marketing practices. The crackdown, dubbed "Operation Cryptosweep," has been going after initial coin offerings , mining services and trading platforms.
The Supreme Court dealt an initial blow to millions of workers Monday in the first of two major disputes this term pitting corporations against labor unions. In a 5-4 decision controlled by the court's conservative wing , the justices ruled that employers have the right to insist that labor disputes get resolved individually, rather than allowing workers to join together in class action lawsuits.
In a victory for employers and the Trump administration, the Supreme Court on Monday said that employers could block employees from banding together as a class to fight legal disputes in employment arbitration agreements. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion for the 5-4 majority, his first major opinion since joining the court last spring and a demonstration of how the Senate Republicans' move to keep liberal nominee Merrick Garland from being confirmed in 2016 has helped cement a conservative court.
The Supreme Court says employers can prohibit their workers from banding together to dispute their pay and conditions in the workplace, an important victory for business interests. The justices ruled 5-4 Monday, with the court's conservative members in the majority, that businesses can force employees to individually use arbitration, not the courts, to resolve disputes.
When it comes to working with her young clients, Maryellen Cuthbert is a force to be reckoned with in and out of the courtroom. An attorney of 35 years, Cuthbert has found her niche in defending juveniles and youthful offenders charged as adults, helping them to turn their lives around.