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January 30, 2023 | SCOTUS Fails to Identify Leaker of Dobbs Opinion

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Jennings v. Rodriguez to Address Detection of Immigrants Under the Constitution

Jennings v. Rodriguez is one of the first cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when the new term begins next month. While the cases involving President Trump’s travel ban are generating the most buzz, the Court’s decision in Jennings c...

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Upcoming SCOTUS Term - Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission: Gay Rights Against First Amendment

While the last term was relatively quiet, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to consider several blockbuster cases when it resumes next month. One of the most highly anticipated cases is Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which in...

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Carpenter v United States: Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Records?

Carpenter v United States: Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Records?

The U.S. Supreme Court has added several important criminal law cases to its upcoming docket. In Carpenter v United States, the issue is whether police need a warrant to obtain historical cell-site records, which indicate which cell towers a cell pho...

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Gerrymandering Back Before the Court in Gill v Whitford

Gerrymandering Back Before the Court in Gill v Whitford

The U.S. Supreme Court will revisit the issue of partisan gerrymandering during the upcoming term. The key issue in Gill v Whitford is whether the redistricting plan passed by Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature in 2011 is an unconstituti...

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Jesner v Arab Bank: SCOTUS to Address Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute

Jesner v Arab Bank: SCOTUS to Address Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute

In Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC, the Supreme Court will consider whether liability under the Alien Tort Statute extends to corporate defendants. The decision will significantly impact whether corporations can be held liable in U.S. courts for human rights...

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Supreme Court Preview: Christie v NCAA

Supreme Court Preview: Christie v NCAA

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will return to work in less than a month. The new term will feature several high-profile cases, including Christie v NCAA. The Court will resolve the State of New Jersey’s long-standing battle to legalize spor...

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BNSF Railway v Tyrrell Limits Jurisdiction Over Corporations

BNSF Railway v Tyrrell Limits Jurisdiction Over Corporations

In BNSF Railway v Tyrrell, the Court addressed when courts have jurisdiction over corporate defendants. It held that “the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause does not permit a state to have an out-of-state corporation before its courts wh...

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Advocate Health Care Network v Stapleton: “Church Plan” ERISA Exemption Clarified

Advocate Health Care Network v Stapleton: “Church Plan” ERISA Exemption Clarified

In Advocate Health Care Network v Stapleton, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the Supreme Court held that church-affiliated hospitals qualify as a “church plan” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The Court’s decision, whi...

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California, San Francisco & Personal Jurisdiction

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California: Getting Personal Jurisdiction Now More Difficult

In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, 582 U.S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court tightened the requirements for exercising personal jurisdiction. It held that California courts lacked specific jurisdictio...

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No Re-trial Granted in Turner v United States

Turner v United States: No New Trial in Notorious DC Murder Case

In Turner v United States, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant new trials to several defendants convicted of the brutal 1984 murder of Catherine Fuller in Washington, D.C. The defendants had argued that prosecutors withhel...

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases
by DONALD SCARINCI on January 26, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court returned to the bench this week to begin their February session. The justice...

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Supreme Court Adds Two Sixth Amendment Cases to Docket
by DONALD SCARINCI on January 24, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to consider two cases involving the Sixth Amendment to the C...

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SCOTUS Leaves Title 42 in Place Temporarily
by DONALD SCARINCI on January 19, 2023

In Arizona et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas et al., the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to keep the federal g...

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The Amendments

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    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
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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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