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Justice Gorsuch Authors First Opinion in FDCPA Case

In Henson v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc., 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a company may collect debts that it purchased for its own account w...

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Honeycutt v United States 2017

Honeycutt v United States: Clarity on Joint and Several Federal Criminal Asset Forfeiture

In Honeycutt v United States, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that joint and several liability does not apply to criminal asset forfeiture under the under the...

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Town of Chester v Laroe Estates, Inc: Supreme Court Rules Intervenors Must Have Standing

Town of Chester v Laroe Estates, Inc: Supreme Court Rules Intervenors Must Have Standing

In Town of Chester v Laroe Estates, Inc, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a litigant seeking to intervene as of right under Federal Rule Of Procedure 24(a)...

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County of Los Angeles vs Mendez: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ninth Circuit’s Provocation Rule

County of Los Angeles vs Mendez: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ninth Circuit’s Provocation Rule

In County of Los Angeles vs Mendez, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s controversial provocation rule, which required...

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BNSF Railway Co v Tyrrell: Corporations Cannot Be Sued in All State Courts

BNSF Railway Co v Tyrrell: Corporations Cannot Be Sued in All State Courts

In BNSF Railway Co v Tyrrell, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Montana court’s general personal jurisdiction over a corporate defendant violated due pr...

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Cooper v Harris: North Carolina Congressional Redistricting Overturned

Cooper v Harris: North Carolina Congressional Redistricting Overturned

In Cooper v Harris, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down two congressional redistricting maps in North Carolina. By a vote of 5-3, the majority held that the...

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Water Splash v Menon: Supreme Court Allows International Judicial Process by Mail

Water Splash v Menon: Supreme Court Allows International Judicial Process by Mail

In Water Splash v Menon, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Hague Service Convention does not prohibit service of judicial process by mail. W...

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Kindred Nursing Centers, LP v Clark

Kindred Nursing Centers, LP v Clark: FAA Trumps Kentucky Arbitration Law

The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down yet another state law disfavoring arbitration agreements. In Kindred Nursing Centers, LP v Clark, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the Court hel...

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Midland Funding, LLC v Johnson: U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Debt Collector

Midland Funding, LLC v Johnson: U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Debt Collector

In Midland Funding, LLC v Johnson, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a debt collector’s filing of a proof of claim that is obviously time-barred is not a ...

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Manrique v United States: Deferred Restitution Order Requires 2nd Notice of Appeal

Manrique v United States: Deferred Restitution Order Requires 2nd Notice of Appeal

Manrique v United States In Manrique v United States, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant seeking to appeal an order imposing restitution in a...

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SCOTUS Rejects Non-Delegation Challenge to FCC Telecom Access Program
by DONALD SCARINCI on July 30, 2025

In Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supre...

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SCOTUS Holds LGBTQ+ Curriculum With No Opt-Out Violates Free Exercise Clause
by DONALD SCARINCI on July 22, 2025

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents challenging t...

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SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision Limits Lower Courts’ Power to Issue Nationwide Injunctions
by DONALD SCARINCI on July 16, 2025

In Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Government’s app...

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The Amendments

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    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
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    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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    • Due Process
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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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