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  1. T

    Supreme Court to Decide on Medical Marijuana

    Lets hope the justices do decide to legalize Medical Marijuana.
  2. varwoche

    Supreme Court Speculation

  3. Q

    Mel Gibson Gets Court Order Against Praying Fan

    More: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=2&u=/nm/20041001/en_nm/people_gibson_dc
  4. The Central Scrutinizer

    Florida court strikes down 'Terri's Law'

    This is great news!!! Our prayers have been answered!
  5. D

    Saddam to make symbolic court appearance in chains-want to bet on a Jack Ruby moment?

    According to tonight's London Evening Standard, Saddam, handcuffed and in chains, will make a symbolic court appearance before a Baghdad judge to hear his arrest warrant read to him within the next few days to mark the handover of his custody from US to Iraqi control. Would anyone care to bet on...
  6. Dorian Gray

    WHat the ◊◊◊◊ is going on with the Supreme Court?

    Let me show that to you again, folks. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&e=2&u=/ap/20040628/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_enemy_combatants SURE you can contest your detention or treatment, but after 2 or 3 years, who gives a crap? I would much rather NOT BE DETAINED IN THE FIRST...
  7. C

    Court dimisses pledge case

    This is exactly what I expected would happen. Still, I can't help feeling pissed-off. There has got to be another way for Newdow to address the pledge issue without basing it on his daughter. His case is right, and the "under God" line should be stricken from the pledge, but the fact that he...
  8. varwoche

    church & state - supreme court in the balance

    Supreme court observers predict there will be two, maybe three, appointments during the next presidential term. O'Connor and Stevens are the two justices expected to step down, and there are rumors about Rehnquist. Here is a sampling of recent, close decisions relating to separation of church...
  9. P

    President Bush’s federal court nominees

    George Bush complained the Senate's Democrats had thwarted the will of the majority in keeping Kuhl and others from attaining lifetime appointments interpreting America's laws. Carolyn Kuhl for the 9th Circuit : argued that Bob Jones University should be granted tax-exempt status despite its...
  10. Tony

    Supreme Court Over-Stepping it's Bounds?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3331655.stm How can the Supreme Court meddle in the domestic affairs of a state this way? Aren't such thinks supposed to fall under local jurisdiction?
  11. S

    Great news: US District Court shoots down West Virginia election-rigging!

    http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0402/wv_ruling.html They lost on another relatively minor issue, but even there significant parts of it—such as the requirement that petitioners get in-person permission from the state to collect signatures—was overturned. This is just a start. More anti-freedom...
  12. F

    A Hampton Court Ghost

    Has anybody seen this? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/8268114?source=Metro
  13. whitefork

    Court: President cannot detain U.S. citizen as enemy combatant

    Breaking news, link here. http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/18/padilla.case/index.html
  14. A

    Supreme Court Showdown!!!

    The Biggest....Baddest....most mind bendingly Superior Court of them all, The United States Supreme Court is about to duke it out over the Pledge of Allegiance! It'll be Legal mayhem mayhem mayhem ! With really crappy atheist poster child, and ordained minister Michael Newdow Newdow Newdow...
  15. fishbob

    Creationists in court.

    Paraphrasing some background information: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/national/10SCHO.html?th Teresa Becker chose, in her sophomore year, to major in theology . She had received $1,200 in state scholarship money for her freshman year at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Mich., in 2000...
  16. Z

    Supreme Court Upholds CIPA

    The US Supreme Court yesterday upheld CIPA, the law that required public schools and libraries to put internet filters on computers or lose federal funding. The court in a 6-3 decision ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act does not violate the First Amendment, but that filters...
  17. C

    Supreme Court ruling:Clear as mud?

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Affirmative_Action Ok,has the Supreme Courts ruling made it clear that race can be used as a factor in admitting students to universities and colleges?Now,quotas are taboo,but racial preference is ok?You can use minority race as a plus in...
  18. A

    Paris court blocks book exposing corruption

    We wouldn't want to prejudice the trial. Yeah, that's pretty good, as far as excuses go...:rolleyes: Good for Eva Joly.
  19. ZeeGerman

    The US and the international court

    Why is it so difficult for the US to participate in this court? NYT Especially since the rules leave each country the opportunity to investigate an issue brought up against one of its citizens itself, before the IC in Den Haag would step in action? From here Zee
  20. A

    Pygmies want UN cannibal court

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/05/22/congo.un.pygmy.ap/index.html This is unreal - except it isn't.

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