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Supreme Court May Enter 2012 Election With Politicized Docket
“If they strike down the law, Obama is going to be on the warpath,” Powe said. The court hasn't been a major campaign issue since 1968, when Richard Nixon attacked criminal law rulings issued by the court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Updated: 10/03/2011 12:21A
Court likely to rule on health overhaul
The case of Cory Maples, convicted 15 years ago in the shooting deaths of two men, presents the question: "How much poor representation can one criminal defendant receive" before it violates the Constitution? said University of Maryland law professor
Updated: 10/03/2011 12:10A
Health care looms over Supreme Court term
The case of Cory Maples, convicted 15 years ago in the shooting deaths of two men, presents the question: “How much poor representation can one criminal defendant receive” before it violates the Constitution? said University of Maryland law professor
Updated: 10/02/2011 11:34P
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales
dating back to 2002, authorized by the business director of the company's Koch-Glitsch affiliate in France. “Those activities constitute violations of criminal law,” Koch Industries wrote in a Dec. 8, 2008, letter giving details of its findings.
Updated: 10/02/2011 11:14P
Supreme Court to take up criminal justice, maybe health care
Criminal justice is at the heart of the court's docket, along with free speech and religious freedom. "The docket seems to be changing," Justice Anthony Kennedy told reporters at a judicial conference in August. "A lot of big civil cases are going to
Updated: 10/02/2011 10:51P
Young Hawkeye in trouble with the law
A criminal complaint filed against 20-year-old AJ Derby in Johnson County District Court says authorities were called to the bar late Saturday after a man punched out the window of a bus as he was exiting it. The filing says Derby admitted to damaging
Updated: 10/02/2011 09:28P
CBS 5 - KPHO Health care law looms over new Supreme Court term
Presidents of both parties have directed the State Department to ignore the law, saying it wrongly interferes with the president's powers. Just over a third of the 48 cases the court has so far agreed to hear are of interest to the business sector,
Updated: 10/02/2011 07:35P
Shatter looking at advice on criminalising buying of sex
MINISTER FOR Justice Alan Shatter is examining advice from the Attorney General concerning the legal and constitutional implications of making it a criminal offence to buy sex. It is currently not an offence to purchase or to sell sex,
Updated: 10/02/2011 07:23P
George W. Bush isn't the only alleged war criminal visiting Surrey in October
"This kind of unilateral action in response to an unproven charge is a violation of international law," Herman wrote. "The legal excuse given by US officials, which they relied on in justification of the bombing of Libya in 1986, is the right to self
Updated: 10/02/2011 07:16P
Law enforcement Sunday
As of Sunday afternoon there were 108 people booked in the Klamath County Jail, which has a current capacity of 116. Joshua David Hamilton, 24, transient, unlawful possession of methamphetamine, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, first-degree
Updated: 10/02/2011 06:34P
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