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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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SCOTUS Revives Part of Trump Administration’s Travel Ban

High Court Revives Part of Trump Administration’s Travel Ban

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to proceed. In Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the Court...

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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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Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions
by DONALD SCARINCI on

In McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supre...

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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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