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Month: May 2018

Epic Systems Corp v Lewis: SCOTUS Upholds Workplace Agreements Banning Class Actions

Epic Systems Corp v Lewis: SCOTUS Upholds Workplace Agreements Banning Class Actions

A sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled for employers in a closely-watched arbitration case. By a vote of 5-4, the Court held in Epic Systems Corp v Lewis, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), that employment agreements that include class-action waivers are per...

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SCOTUS Strikes Down PASPA in Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association

SCOTUS Strikes Down PASPA in Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association

In Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA). The decision clears the way for states like New Jersey to legalize sp...

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Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC: Corporations Can't Be Sued Under Alien Tort Statute

Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC: Corporations Can’t Be Sued Under Alien Tort Statute

In Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that foreign corporations may not be defendants in suits brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). However, a sharply divided Court did not agree on the reasoning, which...

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Crime-based Removal Provision Struck Down in Sessins v Dimaya

Crime-Based Removal Provision Struck Down in Sessions v Dimaya

In Sessions v Dimaya, a divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 18 U.S.C. § 16(b), that authorizes the deportation of any alien convicted of an “aggravated felony,” which includes a “cri...

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Supreme Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Patent Review Process in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v Greene’s Energy Group, LLC

Supreme Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Patent Review Process in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v Greene’s Energy Group, LLC

In Oil States Energy Services, LLC v Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that inter partes review does not violate Article III or the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In one of the most highly-a...

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SCOTUS Rules Litigants Can Sue Federal Officials Individually in Religious Freedom Suits
by DONALD SCARINCI on December 28, 2020

In Tanzin v. Tanvir, 592 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Religi...

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SCOTUS Relies on lack of Standing to Uphold Delaware Judicial Balance Requirement
by DONALD SCARINCI on December 21, 2020

In Carney v. Adams, 592 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a provision in the Delawar...

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Supreme Court Strikes Down NY COVID-19 Rule Restricting Attendance at Houses of Worship
by DONALD SCARINCI on December 7, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court has enjoined an executive order issued by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo res...

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The Amendments

  • Amendment1
    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedoms of Press
    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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    • The Right to Bear Arms
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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  • Amendment5
    • Due Process
    • Eminent Domain
    • Rights of Criminal Defendants
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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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