High court to hear appeal over sex offender registration
The Supreme Court will decide whether convicted sex offenders must update their status on the federal sex offender...
View ArticleFederal judge slaps Justice Department for limits on medical marijuana
A recent federal court ruling in San Francisco is a blow to Justice Department efforts to limit the sale of medical marijuana in California and 22 other states, according to legal experts and...
View ArticleHatch Speaks on Faith and Public Life in Fourth Religious Liberty Address (US...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Judiciary) WASHINGTON-Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, took to the Senate Floor to deliver the fourth in a series of speeches on religious liberty this afternoon. Senator...
View ArticleSmith Moore Leatherwood's attorney James Gooden Exum Jr. honoured by North...
(Source: MSI Global Alliance Ltd) MSI's Georgia and South Carolina law firm member Smith Moore Leatherwood is pleased to announce that the North Carolina Supreme Court honored Chief Justice James...
View ArticleNorth Carolina upholds ban on sex offenders using Facebook
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld a state law prohibiting registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other social networking sites that minors can join. The court's...
View ArticleNC Supreme Court bars registered sex offenders from social media sites
The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld a state law prohibiting registered sex offenders from using Facebook or other social networking sites that minors can join. In the split opinion issued...
View ArticleChristian activists win speech case tied to Arab festival
The free-speech rights of Christian activists were violated when police ordered them to leave an Arab-American festival or be ticketed during a confrontation with young Muslims in suburban Detroit, an...
View ArticleWhy His Lochner Dissent is Wrong, and Judicial Engagement is Right
Few, if any, jurists have had a more profound influence upon constitutional law than Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and few, if any, of Holmes' opinions have been as influential as his dissent in...
View ArticlePrep school sex assault convict seeks probation, not prison
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The lawyer for the graduate of an elite New Hampshire prep school who was convicted of sexually assaulting a younger student as part of a sordid campus practice of sexual conquest...
View ArticleAppeals court delivers setback to Obama's immigration plan
A federal appeals court has ruled against President Barack Obama's plan to protect an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally from deportation. In a 2-1 decision Monday, the...
View ArticleTide turns against U.S. residency restrictions on sex offenders
By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Nearly two decades have passed since Josh Gravens, then 12 years old, was playing with his 8-year-old sister and touched her body in an inappropriate way, landing...
View ArticleEgypt Is No Place for Dissent
The arrest of Hossam Bahgat, the Egyptian human rights activist-turned-journalist, highlights the difficulties of resistance and the vulnerability of democracy in a web of increasingly restrictive laws...
View ArticleObama appeals to Supreme Court to save his immigration plan
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to save the president's plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, after...
View ArticleA birthday salute to Louis Brandeis (National Constitution Center)
(Source: National Constitution Center) Today we celebrate the birthday of Justice Louis Brandeis, who make a lasting impact on American constitutional law both before and while he was a justice on the...
View ArticlePLF asks Supreme Court to rescue landowners from procedural purgatory...
(Source: Pacific Legal Foundation) Home » News & Media » Press Releases Appeal in Arrigoni Enterprises argues for reversal of controversial Williamson County precedent that denies property owners...
View ArticleNo ‘Trick or Treating’ Sign Ordered for Sex Offender’s Home
A California man who is no longer on the registry says a rogue parole officer wants him to tell kids to stay away on Halloween. A California man’s neighbors don’t know he’s a convicted sex offender,...
View ArticleFlorida appeals court upholds UF policy barring guns in dorms
A state appeals court Friday rejected arguments by a gun-rights group that sought to overturn a University of Florida ban on firearms in residence halls and other university housing. Florida Carry Inc....
View ArticleBelgian court orders Facebook to stop tracking non-members
Judge threatens social network with fines of €250,000 a day over ‘datr’ cookie, which records visits to many websites whether or not user has Facebook account...
View ArticleBible-citing Marine raises religious freedom questions in appeal
WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — A North Carolina-based Marine will now get to challenge a court-martial conviction that raises tricky questions about military discipline and religious freedom....
View ArticleJustices uphold sex-offender label for Ohio man who had sex with teen when he...
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld state sex-offender registration requirements in a case in which a convicted offender challenged them as “cruel and unusual punishment.” The 5-2 decision issued on Thursday...
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