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Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday's Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama's citizenship, slip by unanswered, but it appears even at the Supreme...
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Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday's Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama's citizenship, slip by unanswered, but it appears even at the Supreme...
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Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday's Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama's citizenship, slip by unanswered, but it appears even at the Supreme Court, a deadline is not really a...
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in an appeal from the Oregon Supreme Court. In Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Williams, a Multnomah County jury awarded $79.5 million in punitive damages -- equal to 97 times...
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Supreme Court Sends Citizenship Appeal to an Anthrax Lab Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday’s Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama’s citizenship,...
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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Kansas v. Colorado, the Court heard arguments on whether the Supreme Court must abide by Congressional rules regarding expert witness costs when the case falls under the Supreme Court's original and exclusive jurisdiction. The Court has constitutionally mandated original...
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Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday’s Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama’s citizenship, slip by unanswered, but it appears even at the Supreme Court, a deadline is not really a...
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Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday's Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama's citizenship, slip by unanswered, but it appears even at the Supreme...
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Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook Who is this man? U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. U.S. Supreme Court Justices As expected, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) let yesterday's Supreme Court deadline to provide proof of Obama's citizenship, slip by unanswered, but it appears even at the Supreme...
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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam opinion Tuesday in Hedgpeth v. Pulido that a harmless error standard should be applied when evaluating a conviction based on a general verdict where the jury was given alternate theories, including an invalid one. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had ruled that it was a "structural error," and overturned the conviction....
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In Crescent/Mach I Partners L.P. v. Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. of Texas, (Del. Supr., December 1, 2008), read opinion here , the Delaware Supreme Court (in a rare occurrence) reversed the Chancery Court on a procedurally unusual basis in an appraisal case that was previously highlighted on this blog here . (That summary also includes links to prior opinions in the case). In a nutshell,...
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Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter agreed that the appeals court made a mistake, but would have affirmed its ruling anyway because the underlying decision in favor of Pulido was correct.
How Appealing (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Flattery in a Faux Pas at the Supreme Court": At "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Tony Mauro has this post about today's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in which the Attorney General of Colorado referred to Justice David...
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Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear its first K-12 case of its current term, Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee . Details on the case, the lower court rulings along the way, and NSBA's brief to the court are here , courtesy of NSBA's Legal Clips . The local newspaper from the Massachusetts town where the case arose, the Barnstable Patriot, has a good...
