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Court: Use new drug sentencing law in crack cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says criminals who were arrested but not yet sentenced for crack cocaine offenses should be able to take advantage of newly reduced sentences. Corey A. Hill and Edward Dorsey were arrested in 2007 and 2008 for...Tags: Clarence Thomas, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Stephen Breyer, Samuel A. Alito
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Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a company can be sued for retaliating against an employee by firing her fiance. The high court on Monday ruled for Eric Thompson and against North American Stainless. Thompson's fiancee and now-wife,...Tags: Local Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Trials
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U.S. court rules against parents in vaccine case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a federal law bars lawsuits against drug makers over serious side effects from childhood vaccines By a 6-2 vote Tuesday, the court ruled against the parents of a child who sued the drug...Tags: Vaccines, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Pennsylvania, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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U.S. justices endorse FCC authority in cellphone tower case
ReutersBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Judges, Deutsche Telekom AG
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Supreme Court reinforces FCC authority in disputes over cell tower placements
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell phone towers. The court voted 6-3 Monday to uphold an appeals court ruling in favor...Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Samuel A. Alito, Washington, DC, John G. Roberts, Jr., Federal Communications Commission
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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Congress
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Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor
NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Guy Fieri, Same-Sex Marriage, Rand Paul, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Letters: Parents who care, gay or straight
Re "Experts defend gay parenting," April 6 With more than 40 years of experience in education as a teacher, school director, principal and headmaster, I find Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's concern that the children of same-sex couples may suffer...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Iran
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Supreme Court won't revive Alabama immigration law
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court made it clear Monday that enforcing immigration laws was reserved for the federal government, not the states. By an 8-1 vote, the justices rejected a request from Alabama to revive part of a 2011 law designed to drive...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Career and Workplace, Trials
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Kevin de Leon, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control
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Letters: The language of Justice Scalia
Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, Ethics, Family, Religion and Belief
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What now on gun control?
Despite the mounting casualties of gun violence and a brutal massacre that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., the Senate on Wednesday failed to pass a bipartisan compromise to widen background checks for potential purchasers of guns as well as...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Interior Policy, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America
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