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24 Jun 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  To a political scientist, one way is by viewing it as a power play by the rabbinate, an attempt many centuries before the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Cooper v Aaron to engage in a performative utterance establishing themselves as the “ultimate interpreters” of the document in question, whether the Torah or the Constitution. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 8:00 am by Aaron Weems
  Since then she’s been refused certain spousal benefits and is required to pay inheritance taxes on Underwood’s estate; issues which, ironically, are nearly identical to those raised by Edith Winsor in the seminal same-sex marriage case, United States v. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 7:22 am by Mark Ashton
 As I read the dissents I kept thinking about the 1954 decision in Brown v. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 10:00 am by Aaron Weems
United States to overturn Elonis’ criminal conviction and forty-four month prison term for statements he made through social media about his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class, and slicing the throat of an FBI agent who was sent to interview him about his kindergarten class attack statements. [read post]
5 Jul 2015, 1:34 pm by Aaron Weems
Obergefell bookends a volatile two years in the Federal Court system which began with the decision in United States v. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 2:02 pm
Last May, Susan Foreman Jordan in our Pittsburgh office issued a very informative alert on the impact of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. [read post]