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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 Reti...

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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 ...

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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 Fulle...

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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 assistanc...

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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 a...

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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 g...

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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 ...

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Supreme Court Vacates Death Row Sentence in McWilliams v Dunn

Supreme Court Vacates Death Row Sentence in McWilliams v Dunn

In McWilliams v Dunn, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a death penalty sentence imposed more than 30 years ago. By a vote of 5-4, the majority held that A...

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Remand on Cross-Border Shooting Case Hernandez v Mesa

Remand on Cross-Border Shooting Case Hernandez v Mesa

In a per curium opinion in Hernandez v Mesa, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and remanded the cas...

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Pavan v Smith: SCOTUS Reaffirms Rights of Same-Sex Couples

Pavan v Smith: SCOTUS Reaffirms Rights of Same-Sex Couples

In Pavan v Smith, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed an Arkansas State Supreme Court decision that prevented same-sex married couples from having both spouses...

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

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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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