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

Category: Supreme Court Decisions

Florida’s Campaign Finance Laws for Judicial Candidates Does Not Violate First Amendment

There are acceptable limits to free speech in some campaign finance laws for the Roberts Court, at least when it comes to judges elected by popular vote. In a case regarding campaign finance laws, Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar, the majority of t...

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Justice Anthony Kennedy Key to Divided Court on Same-Sex Marriage

Oral arguments lasted only a few short hours, but the Supreme Court will likely debate the same-sex marriage cases for the next two months. Not surprisingly, Justice Anthony Kennedy holds the likely swing vote that could change history in regards to ...

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Traffic Stop Drug Search Fails Fourth Amendment “Sniff” Test

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that absent reasonable suspicion, police extension of a traffic stop in order to conduct a dog sniff violates the Constitution’s prohibition of unreasonable seizures. The decision in Rodriguez v. United States...

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Fourth Amendment and Technology: Can They Co-Exist?

In a brief per curium opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that lifetime monitoring of a convicted sex-offender could run afoul of the constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The decision in Torrey Dale Grad...

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America’s First Privacy Case: Meyer v. State of Nebraska

Privacy rights are not expressly addressed under the U.S. Constitution. However, the Supreme Court has nonetheless found that they protected under the Bill of Rights. Most notably, the Court has held that the notion of “liberty” under the Fourtee...

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When Does Redistricting Violate the Voting Rights Act?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued its much-anticipated decision in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama and Alabama Democratic Conference v. Alabama, which addressed whether the state of Alabama engaged in racial gerrymandering during its...

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Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Online Retailers

The U.S. Supreme Court gave online retailers a significant victory in the Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl case,when it held that the Tax Injunction Act (TIA) does not prohibit them from challenging a Colorado sales tax scheme that requires out...

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Grand Jury Power in Death Penalty Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted review in Hurst v. Florida, which challenges the constitutionality of a Florida law limiting the power of the jury in death penalty cases. The criminal law case raises interesting questions with regard a defen...

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SOX Conviction for Violating Sarbanes-Oxley Act Overturned

In Yates v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a Florida fisherman did not violate the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s anti-shredding provision when he tossed undersize fish overboard in order avoid a fine from wildlife officials. Much ...

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Supreme Court to Release Same-Day Audio for Same-Sex Marriage Case

The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced that it would release audio recordings of the upcoming same-sex marriage hearing on the same day. Oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on April 28, 2015. Lawyers for both sides...

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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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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 4, 2025

In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First ...

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SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit
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In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigare...

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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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    • 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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