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May 21, 2025 | Supreme Court Sides With FDA on Flavored Vape Denials

Author: DONALD SCARINCI

Gloucester County School Board v GG Case Remanded Back to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Gloucester County School Board v GG Transgender Case Returned to Lower Court

The U.S. Supreme Court will not decide the potential blockbuster transgender bathroom case anytime soon. The justices recently remanded Gloucester County School Board v GG back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.   Facts of Gloucester C...

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Bethune-Hill v Virginia State Board of Elections

Bethune-Hill v Virginia State Board of Elections: Redistricting & Racial Gerrymandering in Virginia

In Bethune-Hill v Virginia State Board of Elections, the U.S. Supreme Court considered what constitutes racial gerrymandering.   Through its holding that the district court applied an incorrect legal standard in determining that race did ...

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Fry v Napoleon Community Schools

Fry v Napoleon Community Schools Defines Difference between Disability and Education Claims

The U.S. Supreme Court recently released its decision in Fry v Napoleon Community Schools. The justices unanimously held that exhaustion of the administrative procedures established by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is unneces...

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Buck v Davis Case

Buck v Davis: Racial Bias & Sixth Amendment Might Reverse Death Sentence

In Buck v Davis, 580 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a death row inmate was likely prejudiced by expert witness testimony offered by his own defense team that suggested he was more likely to be dangerous in the future bec...

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SCOTUS To Hear Trinity Lutheran Church v Pauley And Three Oral Arguments

Trinity Lutheran Church v Pauley and Three Oral Arguments Last Week

The U.S. Supreme Court has finally scheduled oral arguments in one of the Term’s most anticipated cases, Trinity Lutheran Church v Pauley. The case involves whether the state of Missouri violated the U.S. Constitution when it denied a church’s ap...

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments Including Fatal Cross-Border Shooting Suit

SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments Cross-Border Shooting Suit

The U.S. Supreme Court returned from recess this week and heard oral arguments in three cases. In what could be a significant decision, the justices considered the constitutionality of the shooting of an unarmed Mexican citizen by U.S. border patrol....

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Confirmation of Justice Elena Kagan

Confirmation of Justice Elena Kagan

In 2010, President Barak Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice John Paul Stevens. Her nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a 63–37 vote. Once sworn in, Kagan became the 112th justice and the fourth woman...

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California, San Francisco County Revisited

Personal Jurisdiction Over Corporations Revisited in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California, San Francisco County

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California, San Francisco County. The case involves an issue of great importance to U.S. businesses — the limits of specific jurisdiction.  ...

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Neil Gorsuch Nominated by President Donald Trump to U.S. Supreme Court

Trump Nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court

President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the long-standing vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, the conservative justice is likely to shape the landscape of the Court for decades to come.   Legal Education ...

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SCOTUS Agrees to Consider Birthright Citizen Cases
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 21, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s execut...

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SCOTUS Rules Non-Citizens Must Challenge Removal Under Alien Enemies Act
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 6, 2025

In Trump v. J.G.G., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-citizens challenging their removal under ...

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Causing Physical Harm Always Involves “Use of Force”
by DONALD SCARINCI on April 29, 2025

In Delligatti v. United States, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the knowing ...

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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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    • 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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