Reuters – The world’s largest retailer has asked the Supreme Court to halt a mammoth sex-discrimination case brought by its women workers, according to a Wednesday court filing.
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Reuters – The judge overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s investment firm has asked Gibraltar’s supreme court to transfer $73.1 million so it may be used to compensate victims of the imprisoned Ponzi schemer.
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Reuters – The Federal Reserve will have to appeal to the Supreme Court if it wants to avoid having to disclose details of its emergency lending programs to banks bailed out with taxpayer money during the financial crisis.
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AP – For a few days, he was famous the world over — an Iraqi TV journalist who became an instant hero for millions when he hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush’s head and called him a dog.
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AP – President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads.
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AP – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Thursday that most terrorism cases should be tried in civilian courts.
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AP – A hospital psychiatrist has testified that medication given to Anna Nicole Smith by her doctor was “overkill” for the kind of pain she was describing
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AP – At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, or vice versa.
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AP – At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, or vice versa.
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AP – At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, or vice versa.
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Reuters – Elena Kagan became the fourth female justice in history on Saturday and the 112th Supreme Court member after President Barack Obama won Senate approval for his second appointment to the high court.
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AP – Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers, The Associated Press has learned.
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Reuters – President Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court won Senate approval on Thursday, his second appointment to the court that decides abortion, death penalty and other contentious cases.
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AP – The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan Thursday as the Supreme Court’s 112th justice and the fourth woman in its history, granting a lifetime term to a lawyer and academic with a reputation for brilliance, a dry sense of humor and a liberal bent.
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AP – Her confirmation assured, Elena Kagan is on the brink of becoming the fourth woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
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For several days now, Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a bill that would benefit small businesses, arguing that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was putting electoral advantages over jobs for everyday people. On Tuesday, the DISCLOSE Act failed to get the needed votes for cloture, in the process providing the Senate the time needed to move on to other business. But when leadership brought a revised version of the small business bill to the floor on Thursday morning, they were met with united Republican opposition. Despite complaining about the delay in consideration, Republicans filibustered the measure by a vote of 58 (in favor of cloture) to 42 (against). GOP leadership argued that it wasn’t against the aims of the bill per se.
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Reuters – The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out the 2007 sexual abuse conviction of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial on charges of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.
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Reuters – The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out the 2007 sexual abuse conviction of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial on charges of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.
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Reuters – The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out the 2007 sexual abuse conviction of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial on charges of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.
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When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his colleagues on the Supreme Court left for their summer break at the end of June, they marked a milestone: the Roberts court had just completed its fifth term. More on Supreme Court
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If President Obama fears Elizabeth Warren won’t be confirmed by the Senate to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he should just appoint her while the Senate is on one of its many vacations, House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank said Friday. Referring to her as “far and away the best candidate,” Frank said Warren, a noted consumer advocate and bailout watchdog who conceived the agency in a 2007 article, not only cares about protecting consumers but also has the political chops to get things done for them in Washington. “If [Warren] can’t be confirmed she should be a recess [appointment],” Frank, who helped shepherd the recently-enacted financial reform bill into law, told the Huffington Post on Friday. “Given the way [the Senate has] misused the filibuster… given it’s anti-Democratic, I think the President did exactly the right thing with Donald Berwick,” the 15-term Massachusetts Congressman added, referring to an earlier Obama recess appointment to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services. Warren, a popular pick to lead the new consumer agency she envisioned, has seen her chances threatened by other candidates for the job. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner prefers Michael Barr, his assistant secretary for financial institutions and a veteran of the Clinton-era Treasury, according to people familiar with Geithner’s views. White House officials say the shortlist also includes Eugene Kimmelman, a former top official at consumer advocacy groups Consumers Union, the Consumer Federation of America and Public Citizen who now works in the Justice Department’s antitrust division.
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Barney Frank: Elizabeth Warren Should Head CFPB, By Recess Appointment If Necessary
Washington, DC – A conservative think tank fellow today apologized for giving the impression that an alleged “ sextape ” of US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was taken during an event at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.
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Washington, DC – A conservative think tank fellow today apologized for giving the impression that an alleged “ sextape ” of US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was taken during an event at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.
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Washington, DC – A conservative think tank fellow today apologized for giving the impression that an alleged “ sextape ” of US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was taken during an event at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.
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Even as the Senate cleared a major hurdle in the fight for unemployment benefits and the Judiciary Committee confirmed Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, the media today seemed to be distracted by slightly more…salacious developments. Some politicos were entranced by Andrew Breitbart’s new roll as head of White House personnel. Others by Sharron Angle’s ongoing efforts to spread word about our country’s demise. One particularly zealous commentator just wants to punch Alan Grayson in the face. We’ll be back tomorrow for the unemployment vote and the signing of Wall Street reform into law…assuming we finish our Mike Mullen portrait in time. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 : EXCLUSIVE: LOBBYISTS FUNNELED MONEY THROUGH CONGRESSIONAL STAFF ASSOCIATION – Lobbyists for major banks, insurers, pharmaceutical and energy companies and at least one foreign government have been helping to fund and organize lavish gatherings of staffers and members of Congress since early 2009, funneling the money through an officially chartered staff organization called the Congressional Cigar Association . The CCA, founded by Republican staffers and sponsored by Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), is chartered by the House Administration Committee for the purpose of encouraging networking among congressional staff.
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Reuters – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan won approval on Tuesday of a divided Senate Judiciary Committee, moving her a step closer to becoming President Barack Obama’s second appointee on the high court.
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AP – Pushing toward an election-year Supreme Court confirmation vote, a polarized Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kagan to be the fourth female justice. Just one Republican joined Democrats to approve Kagan’s nomination and send it to the full Senate, where she’s expected to win confirmation within weeks.
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AP – Pushing toward an election-year Supreme Court confirmation vote, a polarized Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kagan to be the fourth female justice. Just one Republican joined Democrats to approve Kagan’s nomination and send it to the full Senate, where she’s expected to win confirmation within weeks.
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Late last week, Congressional Democratic leadership settled on an alternative way of passing tough new campaign finance disclosure rules into law. With Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) announcing his opposition to the DISCLOSE Act, negotiators would shift their focus to the two moderate Republicans from Maine. “I just talked to Senator Schumer within the last 30 minutes,” Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the sponsor of the House’s version of the legislation, told the Huffington Post Thursday evening. “He is going to continue to focus on identifying Republicans who support it. As you know Senator Snowe was very critical of the Supreme Court’s decision and the question that will be posed to her is, ‘Okay, what do you intend to do about it?’” On Monday, Snowe announced her intentions. In another blow to the bill’s chances, the Maine Republican said she thought the Senate should prioritize other pieces of legislation before the August recess.
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A weekly round-up of LA’s big winners. Click here to see the losers . Christopher Nolan: : Nolan’s “Inception”, perhaps the most anticipated movie of the summer, opened to a solid $3 million in its midnight screenings, and the movie’s success could have big implications for future blockbusters. The LA Times writes: “If “Inception” does well, look for a slew of stories about how Hollywood will now start taking risks. Of course, in this case risks are making movies that don’t have a number in them after the title.” Laurence Fishburne: : Just as Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings brought Thurgood Marshall back into the national spotlight, Fishburne’s portrayel of the Supreme Court Justicel opened at the Geffen Playhouse to near universal acclaim.
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CHICAGO — A federal appeals court upheld a ban on gun possession for a domestic violence offender in a ruling that several anti-violence advocates applauded Wednesday for providing some clarity after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision on gun restrictions. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled 10-1 on Tuesday to reinstate a southern Wisconsin man’s conviction for having a gun while on probation for a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction
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Supreme Court Gun Decision Doesn’t Mean Domestic Violence Offenders Can Own Handguns
With Washington biding its time until tomorrow’s Wall Street vote and next week’s unemployment showdown, a hodgepodge of stories filled the echo chamber today. Dick Cheney’s dream of crushing the rebellion in one swift stroke has been put on hold due to heart surgery, BP’s efforts to save The Situation’s beloved beach culture have been delayed and Sue Myrick’s ongoing attempts to distinguish Arabs from Mexicans appear futile. If you’re driving home today, be on the lookout for Kagans — we hear they’re lousy drivers. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Wednesday, July 14th : WALL STREET REFORM TO PASS TOMORROW – It’s been a little less than two years since major Wall Street banks brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse, triggering a steep economic decline and crisis-levels of unemployment. Now, the last time they did that, they wiped themselves so clean off the map that they had little clout to battle Democrats.
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UPDATE: The driver of the car involved has been identified as Rachel Kagan, the niece of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. PREVIOUSLY: NEW YORK (Associated Press) – Candidate for New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been involved in an apparent hit-and-run accident in Manhattan. That’s according to a NY1 report Tuesday that says the Democratic state senator was in a car driven by a staff member when it hit a parked car Monday night and drove away. NY1 says an eyewitness saw the incident and recorded Schneiderman’s license plate number.
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Last month, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were so desperately searching for a chink in Kagan’s armor (and coming up short) that they resorted to maligning her former mentor, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall. According to Senators Sessions, Grassley, and Cornyn, he was a “judicial activist” with a troubling record on the bench who warranted suspicion and re-examination. Serendipitously, Laurence Fishburne’s reprisal of Justice Marshall in the play Thurgood opened at the Kennedy Center (and now the Geffen Playhouse) just days after the Kagan confirmation hearings. The 95-minute monologue about Marshall takes the audience from Baltimore to the Supreme Court, filling out his life as civil rights hero and American icon
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Laurence Fishburne Reprises Thurgood Marshall Role At Geffen Playhouse
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, concluding that the rule was unconstitutionally vague and had a chilling effect on broadcasters. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan struck down the 2004 Federal Communications Commission policy, which said that profanity referring to sex or excrement is always indecent. “By prohibiting all `patently offensive’ references to sex, sexual organs and excretion without giving adequate guidance as to what `patently offensive’ means, the FCC effectively chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive,” the appeals court wrote. “To place any discussion of these vast topics at the broadcaster’s peril has the effect of promoting wide self-censorship of valuable material which should be completely protected under the First Amendment,” it added. The court said the FCC might be able to craft a policy that does not violate the First Amendment
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FCC Swear Word Censorship Policy Tossed By Federal Court
WASHINGTON — The gun lobby is advertising against Elena Kagan and Republican opponents are laying out their case against her, but President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee appears just weeks away from Senate confirmation. Judiciary Committee Republicans are expected Tuesday to request a one-week delay before a panel vote to send Kagan’s nomination to the full Senate. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman, has said he would grant such a request
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WASHINGTON — The gun lobby is advertising against Elena Kagan and Republican opponents are laying out their case against her, but President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee appears just weeks away from Senate confirmation. Judiciary Committee Republicans are expected Tuesday to request a one-week delay before a panel vote to send Kagan’s nomination to the full Senate. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman, has said he would grant such a request. That would push a committee vote to next week, leaving Kagan on track to win Senate confirmation before the Senate leaves in early August for a monthlong break – and in time to take her seat when the court begins a new term this fall, as Obama has asked
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NEW YORK — The newest Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN’-ya soh-toh-my-YOR’), is writing a memoir. Sotomayor is working with a collaborator on her life story, from her childhood in the South Bronx to her appointment to the court last year. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group said Monday that the book is not yet titled and has no release date set. The book will come out simultaneously in English and in Spanish.
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Sonia Sotomayor Book: Supreme Court Justice Working On Memoir In English And Spanish
WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony Kennedy, who already decides whether liberals or conservatives win the Supreme Court’s most closely contested cases, is about to take on an even more influential behind-the-scenes role with the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. By virtue of seniority, Kennedy will inherit Stevens’ power to choose the author of some court opinions, an authority that has historically been used – including in as big a case as the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision – to subtly shape a ruling or preserve a tenuous majority. This change might keep the court’s most liberal justices from writing some of its biggest decisions. An unwritten high court rule gives the senior justice in the majority, most often the chief justice, the power to assign opinions. When the liberals win an ideologically driven case by a 5-4 vote, the court’s two senior justices – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia, both conservatives – are sure to be on the losing side
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AP – Justice Anthony Kennedy, who already decides whether liberals or conservatives win the Supreme Court’s most closely contested cases, is about to take on an even more influential behind-the-scenes role.
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