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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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Coventry Health v Nevils

Coventry Health v Nevils: Supreme Court Rejects Missouri FEHBA Preemption

In Coventry Health v Nevils, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the State of Missouri exceeded its authority in attempting to regulate the subrogation and re...

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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 A...

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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...

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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 offi...

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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 ...

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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...

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

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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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