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July 30, 2025 | SCOTUS Rejects Non-Delegation Challenge to FCC Telecom Access Program

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Bank of America Corp v City of Miami: City of Miami is an Aggrieved Person Under the FHA

Bank of America Corp v City of Miami: City of Miami is an Aggrieved Person Under the FHA

In Bank of America Corp v City of Miami, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the City of Miami qualifies as an “aggrieved person” under the Fair Housing Act. However, it also held that further proceedings are needed to determi...

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Venezuela v Helmerich & Payne International Expands Sovereign Immunities Act

Venezuela v Helmerich & Payne International Expands Sovereign Immunities Act

Venezuela v Helmerich & Payne International The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., 581 U. S. ____ (2017), which involves the Venezuelan government’s seizure...

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Lewis v Clarke: Supreme Court Denies Sovereign Immunity for Tribal Employees

Lewis v Clarke: Supreme Court Denies Sovereign Immunity for Tribal Employees

In Lewis v Clarke, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity does not apply to tribal employees who are sued in their official capacity as agents of the tribe. The Court’s decision was unanimo...

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In Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, bad-faith conduct

SCOTUS Clarifies District Court’s Ability to Sanction Bad-Faith Conduct

Bad-Faith Conduct In Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the lower court exceeded its authority when it imposed a $2.7 million sanction against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. for discove...

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Nelson v Colorado: Fines Must Be Reimbursed to Exonerated Defendants

Nelson v Colorado: Fines Must Be Reimbursed to Exonerated Defendants

The U.S. Supreme Court held that the State of Colorado must return fines and costs assessed against criminal defendants whose convictions have been reversed. The justices decided Nelson v Colorado, 581 U. S. ____ (2017) by a vote of 7-1, with Justice...

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Full Nine-Member Court Considers Last Seven Cases of 2016-17 Term

Full Nine-Member Court Considers Last Seven Cases of 2016-17 Term

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in seven cases last week. The justices will spend the remainder of the term rendering decisions and selecting cases to consider next term.   Below is a brief summary of the last seven cases befor...

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Neil Gorsuch Has Busy First Week On U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Neil Gorsuch Has Busy First Week on Supreme Court

Justice Neil Gorsuch heard oral arguments in his first cases as a newly sworn-in member of the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the cases, Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley, could be blockbuster.   In Trinity, the justices must decide whether th...

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Dean v United States Preserves Flexibility in Mandatory Minimum Sentences

Dean v United States Preserves Flexibility in Mandatory Minimum Sentences

In Dean v United States, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that district courts have the discretion to determine whether a defendant has already been given a mandatory sentence for one crime when considering an appropriate sentence ...

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Pretrial Detention

Pretrial Detention Fits Fourth Amendment “as Hand in Glove”

In Manuel v. City of Joliet, 580 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim is the proper avenue for challenging an unlawful post-arrest detention. According to the seven-member majority, such a...

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McLane v. EEOC - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

McLane v. EEOC Subpoenas Should Be Reviewed for Abuse of Discretion

In McLane v. EEOC, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a district court’s decision whether to enforce or quash a subpoena issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) should be reviewed for abuse of discretion ra...

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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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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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