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Month: April 2021

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Divided Court Strikes Down COVID-19 Restrictions on In-Home Religious Gatherings

On April 9, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tandon v. Newsom, 593 U. S. ____ (2021) that California’s COVID-19 restrictions on religious gatherings in homes likely run afoul of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. Accordingly, the C...

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SCOTUS Backs FCC in FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project

In FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project, 592 U. S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FFC) 2017 decision to repeal or modify three of its media ownership rules was not arbitrary or capricious under th...

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US Supreme Court Sides with Facebook in TCPA Case

In Facebook Inc. v. Duguid, 592 U. S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that to qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), a device must have the capacity either to store...

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SCOTUS Rules FOIA Exception Applies to Environmental Opinion

In U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club, 592 U. S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the deliberative process privilege provides protection from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to in-house draft biological...

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SCOTUS Rules Students Have Standing to Bring Free Speech Suit

In Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, 592 U.S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that two students had standing to sue their college for violating their free speech rights, even though their suit sought only nominal damages. According to the Court, a ...

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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 4, 2025

In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First ...

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SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit
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In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigare...

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Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions
by DONALD SCARINCI on

In McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supre...

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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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  • Amendment2
    • The Right to Bear Arms
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  • Amendment4
    • 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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