Yet these words appeared in a dissenting opinion issued by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on Monday. Let us be clear precisely what this means.

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The decision by Judge Sam Sparks strongly upheld the admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin as consistent with the Supreme Court ruling -- and rejected the argument that Texas had failed to meet the tests set out by the Supreme Court.

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There is an interesting entanglement case filed in Atlanta, Georgia where Rabbi Shalom Lewis has challenged Georgia's Kosher Food Labeling Act (OCGA Sec. 26-2-330 ff.) on the ground that it codifies the definition of kosher by the orthodox rabbis.

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In an interview to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ordered Federal Health Insurance Benefits for same sex married couples. The case involves Deputy Federal Public Defender Brad Levenson, who married Tony Sears last July 12, and 9th Circuit staff lawyer Karen Golinski, who married Amy Cunni …

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H. Beatty Chadwick, a former Philadelphia-area lawyer charged with civil contempt, has been behind bars for nearly 14 years without being charged.

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The Justice Department is contending that a Jewish defendant in Iowa should be denied bail in part because he, like all Jews, is entitled to Israeli citizenship if he seeks to immigrate to the Jewish state.

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Maryland's commission to study capital punishment announced this morning that its members had voted 13-9 to recommend repealing the death penalty.

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Eric Goldman knows I sure do love wacky and ridiculous lawsuits against various tech and media companies, but the latest case he sent over may set a new standard. At least in the past, those lawsuits were something close to understandable -- if totally unbelievable.

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Hi David. Thanks for taking the time. Frankly, we've been confused by much of what's happened since Tuesday. For starters, could you help us understand the grounds upon which Proposition 8 is being challenged in court?

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When Proposition K was added to Tuesday's ballot, many people likely snickered at the possibility that San Francisco might take its place alongside such prostitute-friendly havens as Amsterdam and a few rural counties in nearby Nevada.

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A King County judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. The secretary of state's office says Superior Court Judge John Erlick dismissed the lawsuit on Monday.

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The Texas Supreme Court this morning rejected Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr's request that the court toss the major-party nominees off the Nov. 4 ballot in Texas.

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From the Fulton County Daily Report: A former Fulton County magistrate judge pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges of conspiracy to harbor an alien and making false statements in what a federal prosecutor described as a case of "modern-day slavery."

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The Legal Times reports: Now that the Supreme Court has dropped its opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, a panel of Guantanamo experts debated the next move.

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The Legal Times reports: Justice Stephen Breyer has been married to a British subject (wife Joanna) for more than 40 years, but he confessed recently he still does not comprehend Britishisms in language -- or so he joked in a speech May 28 at the British Embassy in Washington, D. …

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The Recorder reports: The government asked Judge Jeremy Fogel to send a message Wednesday on the seriousness of economic espionage, and Fogel obliged.

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Bloomberg reports: Representative Rick Renzi, a Republican from Arizona who isn't seeking re-election, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged scheme to profit from a land deal.

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There are many ways to lose a Supreme Court case, and by the end of an argument that was before the court on Wednesday, the Democrats who were challenging Indiana's voter-identification law appeared poised to lose theirs in a potentially sweeping way, with implications for many …

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The Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Wednesday over just how much due process Guantanamo Bay detainees deserve in challenging their imprisonment -- and how much they already have.

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When he first saw it, David Bloch thought the patent infringement lawsuit against client Discover Financial Services was just another troll case in the rocket-docket Eastern District of Texas.

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Medical pot-using patients won a major victory Wednesday when a California appeal court ruled that Garden Grove cops must return the marijuana they confiscated from a Southern California man during a traffic stop.

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E. Duncan Getchell Jr., a nominee for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been accused of spreading defamatory statements about another Virginia lawyer in order to shore up his foundering nomination and shift blame for an $8 million court error.

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a lower court's witness intimidation jury verdict by ruling that pointing a cellular telephone camera at a witness in a criminal case is witness intimidation.

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The millions of blogs littering the Internet prove that everyone has an opinion. But you won't often find the general counsel of a major tech company shooting his mouth off about ongoing patent litigation.

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