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During oral arguments earlier this month in a case questioning the limits of police officers' warrantless use of GPS technology to track suspects' movements, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed serious concerns about the privacy implications of using such technology.
I think the Court, by taking this case, is showing that they are concerned with keeping up with the changing technologies," said Robert H. Humphrey, a Tiverton, R.I. defense attorney and former prosecutor. "Technology is on the cutting edge, but the Court takes a longer view of it" when it comes to privacy rights.
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After a weeks-long legal battle, Brooke and Martinsburg high schools will head to the rescheduled Class AAA state championship football game this weekend. The championship game will be 7 p.m. Saturday in Wheeling. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commissions suspension of four South Charleston High football players. The SSAC suspended nine players after an end-of-game brawl at the Nov. 19 Hurricane/South Charleston quarterfinal game: four from Hurricane and five from South Charleston. But four South Charleston players Tyler Harris, Pierria Henry, Trevond Reese and Emerson Gagnon contended game officials did not follow proper protocol when expelling them from the game and took the issue to court. Kanawha Circuit Judge Carrie Webste...
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Carlos V. Garcia Gutierrez, with whom Harry Anduze Montano, Santurce, P.R., was on petition for writ of mandamus, for petitioners Colegio De Abogados ...
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- Karen Leclerc; Guillaume Jarry; Beatrice Boulord; Maureen D. Affleck, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. Daniel E. Webb, Et Al., Defendants, Daniel E. Webb; Harry J. Phillips, in Their Respective Official Capacities as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions; Jeffery P. Victory; Jeannette Theriot Knoll; Chet D. Traylor; Catherine D. Kimball, A/K/a Kitty Kimball; John L. Weimer; Bernette Joshua Johnson, in Their Official Capacities as Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants. Caroline Wallace; Emily Maw, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Pascal F. Calogero Jr., in His Official Capacity as Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court; Jeffrey P. Victory; Jeannette Theriot Knoll; Chet D. Traylor; Catherine D. Kimball; John L. Weimer; Bernett J. Johnson, in Their Official Capacities as Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court; Daniel E. Webb; Harry J. Phillips, Jr., in Their Respective Official Capacities as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the L..., 419 F.3d 405 (5th Cir. 2005)
Maureen D. Affleck (argued), New Orleans, LA, pro se.
Harry A. Rosenberg, Christopher Kent Ralston, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, for all Defendant...
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He is one of the most outspoken, influential and controversial justices in the recent history of the Supreme Court, and on Monday, Antonin Scalia marks his 25th anniversary on the nation's highest court.
He came to Duquesne University Law School on Saturday and challenged its officials to preserve the school's Catholic identity in a speech commemorating the school's centennial.
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- Karen Leclerc; Guillaume Jarry; Beatrice Boulord; Maureen D. Affleck, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. Daniel E. Webb, Et Al., Defendants, Daniel E. Webb; Harry J. Phillips, in Their Respective Official Capacities as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions; Jeffery P. Victory; Jeannette Theriot Knoll; Chet D. Traylor; Catherine D. Kimball, A/K/a Kitty Kimball; John L. Weimer; Bernette Joshua Johnson, in Their Official Capacities as Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants. Caroline Wallace; Emily Maw, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Pascal F. Calogero Jr., in His Official Capacity as Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court; Jeffrey P. Victory; Jeannette Theriot Knoll; Chet D. Traylor; Catherine D. Kimball; John L. Weimer; Bernett J. Johnson, in Their Official Capacities as Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court; Daniel E. Webb; Harry J. Phillips, Jr., in Their Respective Official Capacities as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the L..., 419 F.3d 405 (5th Cir. 2005)
Maureen D. Affleck (argued), New Orleans, LA, pro se.
Harry A. Rosenberg, Christopher Kent Ralston, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, for all Defendant...
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The Supreme Court and corporations
I fully agree with "Bias in Supreme Court?" (Other Views, April 10), that U.S. Supreme Court justices who are the gatekeepers for the use and abuse of the Constitution of the United States must be held to the highest ethical code.
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This year's grand marshal of New York's Columbus Day Parade was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He also took time to speak about his work on WNBC-TV's "The Wall Street Journal Report" on Oct. 16. Moderator Maria Bartiromo noted that the court, "one of the most powerful and least visible institutions in America ... can make tremendously important political and social decisions.
But when she asked this most vivid of the nine justices about the persistent call for the court to allow its oral arguments to be televised - so that the reasoning of these "least-visible" makers of decisions that affect us for years can actually be known by we, the people - Justice Scalia brusquely attacked the notion that the Supreme Court be that accessible.
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- Washington Legal Foundation, William R. Summers, and Michael J. Mazzone, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Texas Equal Access To Justice Foundation, Richard Tate, Chairman, Texas Equal Access To Justice Foundation, Thomas R. Phillips, Chief Justice, and Justices Nathan R. Hecht, Craig T. Enoch, Priscilla R. Owens, James A. Baker, Deborah G. Hankinson, Harriet O'Neill, and Xavier Rodriguez in Their Official Capacities as Justices of the Supreme Court of Texas, Defendants-Appellees., 293 F.3d 242 (5th Cir. 2002)
Richard Abbott Samp, Daniel J. Popeo, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, Charles Fried, Harvard University School of Law, Cambridge, MA, for...
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In a remarkable and relevant move by the U.S. Supreme Court, the death sentence for a decorated Korean War veteran has been unanimously overturned, suggesting a strong recognition that post- traumatic stress disorder has afflicted veterans of wars past and present.
This is an important topic, as soldiers continue to return from Afghanistan and Iraq, where many have been traumatized beyond our civilian imaginations. And, as was the case with Korean War veteran George Porter Jr., there are lingering wounds that never healed.