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October 2, 2025 | SCOTUS Holds No Minimum Contacts Required for Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign States Under FSIA

Month: September 2025

SCOTUS Sides With Trump Administration Over NIH Grants Tied to DEI Initiatives

SCOTUS Sides With Trump Administration Over NIH Grants Tied to DEI Initiatives

The U.S. Supreme Court continues to issue emergency orders involving legal challenges to policy changes made under President Donald Trump, with the latest being, National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association, 606 U.S. ____ (202...

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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to South Carolina’s Exclusion of Planned Parenthood from State Medicaid Program

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to South Carolina’s Exclusion of Planned Parenthood from State Medicaid Program

In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that individual Medicaid beneficiaries can’t sue state officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for failing to comply with the Medicaid Act’s any-qualified...

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SCOTUS Rules Death Row Inmate Has Standing to Challenge Post Conviction DNA Testing Procedures

SCOTUS Rules Death Row Inmate Has Standing to Challenge Post Conviction DNA Testing Procedures

In Gutierrez v. Saenz, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate has standing to bring his claim challenging Texas’s postconviction DNA testing procedures under the Constitution’s Due Process Clause.  Facts of...

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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences

Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences

In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to defendants whose previous sentences have been vacated and who need to be resentenced following the...

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SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit

In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigarette retailers who would sell the products if not for the FDA’s denial order may seek judicial review of that order in the Fifth Circuit Court of App...

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Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions

Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions

In McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. Rather, ...

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SCOTUS Sides With Trump Administration Over NIH Grants Tied to DEI Initiatives
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 26, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court continues to issue emergency orders involving legal challenges to policy cha...

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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to South Carolina’s Exclusion of Planned Parenthood from State Medicaid Program
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 16, 2025

In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held t...

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SCOTUS Rules Death Row Inmate Has Standing to Challenge Post Conviction DNA Testing Procedures
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 11, 2025

In Gutierrez v. Saenz, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate ha...

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The Amendments

  • Amendment1
    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
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    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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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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