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October 8, 2025 | Supreme Court Stays Order Blocking Roving Immigration Patrols in CA

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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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Supreme Court Clarifies Structural-Error Doctrine in Weaver v Massachusetts

Supreme Court Clarifies Structural-Error Doctrine in Weaver v Massachusetts

In Weaver v Massachusetts, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that “structural error” requires a showing of prejudice when raised via an ineffective assistance claim. The decision provides clarity regarding the intersection of the...

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Jae Lee v United States: Immigrant Received Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Jae Lee v United States: Immigrant Received Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

In Jae Lee v United States, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Korean immigrant received ineffective assistance of counsel when his attorney erroneously advised him that pleading guilty to a drug charge would not result in dep...

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Maslenjak v United States SCOTUS Decides When Citizen Can Be Revoked

Maslenjak v United States – U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies When Citizenship Can Be Revoked

In Maslenjak v United States, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that trivial misstatements made during naturalization proceedings can’t serve as grounds for revoking citizenship. Rather, the illegal act must have playe...

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Travel Ban Stayed in Trump v Hawaii

Travel Ban Stayed in Trump v Hawaii

The U.S. Supreme Court again delved into the controversy surrounding the Trump Administration’s travel ban. The Court denied the Government’s motion seeking clarification of its June 26, 2017 order. However, it stayed the district court’s order...

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SCOTUS Holds No Minimum Contacts Required for Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign States Under FSIA
by DONALD SCARINCI on October 2, 2025

In CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court ...

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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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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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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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