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6 Mar 2011, 11:53 pm by Mac
” – Chief Justice Roberts Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Snyder v. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 1:48 pm by Jeff Gamso
United States and the formal relevant issue is whether, when a federal court resentences a person for some reason, the court may consider evidence of rehabilitation since the original sentencing. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 9:19 am by Calvin Massey
   The key to the Court's decision was its conclusion that the messages displayed by the Westboro picketers, though "short of refined social or political commentary," were commentary on matters of "public import" -- "the political and moral conduct of the United States and its citizens, the fate of our Nation, homosexuality in the military, and scandals involving the Catholic clergy. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 8:18 am by Harry Styron
The court’s majority opinion pointed out crucial facts that kept the court from applying the due process rules which were set out by the United States Supreme Court in a series of decisions, most recently in Jones v. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am by Howard Wasserman
First, this case is going to be considered of a piece with last term's decision in United States v. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 8:37 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
"For the past 20-years, the congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church has picketed military funerals to communicate its belief that God hates the United States for its tolerance of homosexuality, particularly in America's military. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 10:26 am by Lyrissa Lidsky
  The decision defines public concern broadly to encompass the Westboro Baptists Church's commentary on the "political and moral conduct of the United States and its citizens. . . . [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 4:30 am by Nick Farr
Needless to say, any time the United States Supreme Supreme Court issues a case involving preemption, we here at Abnormal Use pay close attention. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 11:01 pm by Adam Wagner
 This language has been mirrored in a number of more modern legal sources, including Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, the 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture which 147 of the 192 members of the UN, including the UK, have signed up to (para 28) and the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 6:42 pm by Kenneth Anderson
The action is back around nation-states in a heightened Westphalian competitiveness mode, and I trust that folks at the Pentagon are not so focused on n0n-state actor threats that they have forgotten about the spectre of state-to-state wars, whether the Koreas, China and Taiwan, Pakistan and India, Russia and Georgia among other places, just to name off the nuclear players in this. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
In practice, UK freedom of speech rights are more constrained than, for example, in the United States, where even “hate speech” is generally protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution (see Adam Wagner’s post on the Congressman Giffords shooting for more). [read post]