DOJ Says It Will Take Deportation Relief To Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice plans to try to take the president's deportation relief programs to the Supreme Court, it announced Tuesday, one day after an appeals court maintained a hold on...
View ArticlePalm Coast Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Failing To Register As A Sex...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida) Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Stephen Paul Cotton (43, Palm...
View ArticleSchenck v. United States: Defining the limits of free speech (National...
(Source: National Constitution Center) Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Note: Landmark Cases , a C-SPAN series on historic Supreme Court decisions-produced in cooperation with the...
View ArticleScalia’s death penalty comments in a global perspective (National...
(Source: National Constitution Center) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's comments last week on the death penalty's future in the United States grabbed more than a few headlines, and it could...
View ArticleCourt upholds block on Obama's immigration plan
Washington (CNN)A federal appeals court said President Barack Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration -- aimed at easing deportation threats for millions of undocumented immigrants --...
View ArticleSex-offender registration is not cruel and unusual punishment, rules Ohio...
(Source: Hamilton County Law Library) The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday that the mandatory sex-offender registration and notification requirements under Ohio law are not cruel and unusual punishment in...
View ArticleThe Fate Of This Sex Offender May Lie In The Hands Of Justice Scalia
WASHINGTON -- A man convicted of possessing child pornography wants the Supreme Court to read his offense under federal law narrowly -- and in the process, to give him a break from a very long prison...
View ArticleReligious Accommodations and the Common Good (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) Abstract Citizens, civic leaders, and jurists interested in good public policy should look to history as a guide to the impact of laws and constitutional provisions...
View ArticleSocial Media and Children's Rights In the Global Village
It's "the law" in most countries but kids still have very few digital rights. There has been a great deal of talk about online child protection but precious little about children's rights. There are...
View ArticleInd. court rules personalized license plates are government speech
Approving a personalized license plate that says "HATERS," while denying one that says "HATER" is constitutional, the state's highest court ruled. Same with rejecting a license plate that says...
View ArticleLochner v. New York: Fundamental rights and economic liberty (National...
(Source: National Constitution Center) (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Note: Landmark Cases , a C-SPAN series on historic Supreme Court decisions-produced in cooperation with the National Constitution...
View ArticleCourt Enjoins Enforcement of Unconstitutional Ag-Gag Law (ALDF - Animal Legal...
(Source: ALDF - Animal Legal Defense Fund) Posted by Matthew Liebman, ALDF Senior Attorney on November 12, 2015 Today Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued the declaring Idaho's Ag-Gag law unconstitutional and...
View ArticleResidency restrictions on sex offenders come under fire (Texas Public Policy...
(Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation) This article, written by Mike Ward, originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle on November 9, 2015. Forty-six small cities across Texas are facing a new legal...
View ArticleSex offender registration rules upheld by high court
Requiring convicted sex offenders to register their address with authorities is not cruel and unusual punishment, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 7-2 decision in a case from Clark County....
View ArticleFemale teacher aide's student-sex conviction wasn't unconstitutional, court...
A former Pennsylvania teacher's aide who admitted to repeatedly having sex with a student has failed to persuade a state Superior Court panel that her conviction for institutional sexual assault is...
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 ArticleSex offender registration rules upheld by high court
Requiring convicted sex offenders to register their address with authorities is not cruel and unusual punishment, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 7-2 decision in a case from Clark County....
View ArticleObama asks Supreme Court to save his immigration plan
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 lower courts blocked...
View ArticleHarrisburg gets all of its gun ordinances back: appeals court ruling
The Commonwealth Court this week overturned a Dauphin County judge's decision to strike down three of Harrisburg's five gun ordinances. The Commonwealth Court ruling comes eight months after Judge...
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...
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