Guantanamo Detainee Case Hits Supreme Court
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to make a decision on whether or not Guantanamo detainees who are considered “no threat” can be ordered to be released in the United States. Both the Obama administration and Congress have raised objections about the idea. This pertains primarily to prisoners who have nowhere else to go. The case [...]
Supreme Court Denies Priest’s Appeal in Nun Killing
The United States Supreme Court nixed the appeal of a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of murdering a nun in Ohio. The court said on Monday that it is going to decline hearing the appeal of Reverend Gerald Robinson, who was convicted in 2006 for the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Pahl’s body [...]
Supreme Court Hears Prisoner’s Bid for Lawyer
The Supreme Court’s new term was opened on Monday by raising the question of how long a prisoner’s request for a lawyer should be valid – in terms of years. The Supreme Court reviewed a recent defense that police should not be allowed to question a prisoner with no lawyer present who had requested a [...]
Supreme Court to Look at Local Gun Control
The Supreme Court recently agreed to decide whether strict local and statewide gun control laws are in violation of the second amendment, which will likely result in another battle over gun control with high media exposure. The court will be examining a recent ruling by a lower court that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. [...]
Politics and the Supreme Court
On October 5, 2009, the first Monday of October as mandated by the Constitution, the United States Supreme Court will officially convene for its 2009-2010 session with a new Associate Justice, Sonia Marie Sotomayor. Sotomayor brings with her more judicial experience than any other new justice in years. Sotomayor is probably best known for her [...]
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finds MLB Drug Test Data Seizure Unlawful
On Wednesday, August 26, 2009, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that investigators had no legal right to seize 2003 drug test samples and results for 94 Major League Baseball players who tested positive for illegal substances. The 2003 samples were seized in 2004, and the validity of the seizure has been debated [...]
Free Speech Ain’t Free #$%*@
Posted by Allen P Wilkinson on October 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
On Tuesday, October 7, 2009, lawyers for both sides argued before the United States Supreme Court whether Congress can outlaw videos showing dogs fighting or other small animals being tortured and killed. The law in question made it a crime to sell videos with scenes of animal cruelty, and was intended to apply only to [...]
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