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Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for synopses of the year's most noteworthy business stories to date: GDP growth, immigration reform and border control, the job markets, income growth and inflation, the stock and bond markets, Visa's IPO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, Bear Stearns, the oil and gold markets,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (9 votes cast)

Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Fraud Voter Law, colossal defeat for Democrats

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 28, 2008 · Comments (35)

What the Court did: Rejecting claims by Democrats and various leftist groups, the Court upheld Indiana's strict election law. That law mandates photo IDs to cast ballots, thereby to root out election fraud. What it means: A significant number of states will follow Indiana's lead and will adopt strict anti-fraud... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (29 votes cast)

Congress Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 24, 2008 · Comments (2)

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democrat scheme to subject the country's business community to waves of frivolous and vexatious job discrimination lawsuits. Democrat leaders pushed for a vote on the bill with full knowledge it would fail as an election year stunt that specifically was designed to rile up... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 23, 2008 · Comments (8)

-- The Virginia Car Search Case What the Court did: The Court ruled the federal Fourth Amendment does not bar police officers from searching and seizing evidence for which there is probable cause -- even in connection with arrests that violate state traffic laws. How they voted: This was a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (11 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 16, 2008 · Comments (13)

-- Death Penalty/Lethal Injections What the Court did: The Court upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocols. What it means: For all practical purposes the far left's 40-year crusade to abolish the death penalty nationwide itself is dead and buried. How they voted: This was a 3-2-1-1-2 plurality decision. The lead opinion... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (26 votes cast)

Supreme Court Monday

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 14, 2008 · Comments (8)

Click the below link for the latest happenings in the U.S. Supreme Court.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (7 votes cast)

Supreme Court Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 10, 2008 · Comments (1)

The most newsworthy cases -- gun rights, death penalty, voter laws -- have yet to be decided. Click the below link, however, for synopses of the 07-08 term's most important Supreme Court rulings to date: a case involving federal securities laws, a decision involving principles of Federalism, the International Court... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (5 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 20, 2008 · Comments (0)

In this update we've got musings about free speech rights for public high school students, product liability claims and the healthcare sector, the invalidation of Maine's nanny state law regarding tobacco sales to minors, old-fashioned Constitutional criminal procedure, and pension laws. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (7 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 19, 2008 · Comments (3)

In this update we've got snippets about the ACLU's latest defeat, Katrina insurance coverage claims, and one of those classic criminal law and procedure cases which crop up from time to time, and from which "Law & Order" plot lines and law school final exams can be made.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

The November Election and the Supreme Court

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 11, 2008 · Comments (4)

You don't need a "crystal ball" to know the next president will be granted vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court. So, click the below link if you'd like to read musings about some of the prospects on the GOP side of the spectrum. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (10 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 22, 2008 · Comments (4)

It was a busy Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court: Court Rules Against Muslim Inmate, prisoners cannot sue gov't over theft or destruction of religious items The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 5-4 that a Muslim inmate cannot sue the federal government over the disappearance of his Quran and a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (7 votes cast)

Supreme Court Limits Securities Lawsuits: Landmark ruling in favor of businesses

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 15, 2008 · Comments (12)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a landmark ruling that limits the scope of federal securities laws. The Court ruled investors cannot sue a company's investment advisors, banks, accountants or attorneys, or suppliers or vendors, on grounds they colluded with the company's management fraudulently to inflate its share... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (14 votes cast)

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Case Involving Experimental Drugs

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 14, 2008 · Comments (3)

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that rejected efforts by special interest groups to expand the Constitution to add a right under which the government could be mandated to provide experimental drugs to terminally-ill patients. In addition to rejecting... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 9, 2008 · Comments (1)

Since our last update the SCOTUS has done the following: Court hears arguments for photo ID/voting dispute * * * For those readers who are incredulous as to why the national and local Democrat Parties and liberal special interests groups so vehemently are opposed to something as innocuous as requiring... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (9 votes cast)

Supreme Court Monday

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 7, 2008 · Comments (0)

It was a busy Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court: Court hears arguments for lethal injection case * * * I could not find any media articles to link to on that highly-publicized issue that were balanced and fair and lacking in a clear agenda. Suffice it to say that... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (9 votes cast)

Breaking: SCOTUS to Hear DC Gun Case

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: November 20, 2007 · Comments (20)

Many have been waiting with great anticipation about whether the US Supreme Court would hear this case, the outcome of which has far reaching Second Amendment implications: The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.4/5 (7 votes cast)

Supreme Court Rules that School Can't Censor Anti-Bush Shirt

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 29, 2007 · Comments (93)

A kid walked into school wearing an anti-Bush shirt with images of cocaine and a martini. School officials said it violated the dress code and suspended him. The kid's family sued, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The court sided with the kid: Putting its... [Full Story]

Rating: 1.6/5 (43 votes cast)

The Supreme Court Says School Board Cannot Sort Students by Race

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 28, 2007 · Comments (32)

The Supreme Court decided 5-4 today that students can no longer be sorted into schools based only upon their race, which is what school systems in Seattle and Louisville had been doing. They were assigning students into specific schools based upon one criteria: race. This decision makes perfect sense to... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (30 votes cast)

Breaking: Supreme Court Upholds Federal Ban on Partial Birth Abortion

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: April 18, 2007 · Comments (55)

Finally, some common sense from the SCOTUS on this evil, disgusting, and unnecessary procedure that was nothing short of infanticide: The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (18 votes cast)

The Supreme Court Tells The New York Times to Pound Sand

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: November 27, 2006 · Comments (20)

Last week I posted that the New York Times ran crying to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for help in order to keep Patrick Fitzgerald from reviewing phone records that could implicate two of their reporters for tipping off Islamic charities under investigation for funding terror of FBI raids. Today we... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

The Hamdan Decision Explained

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 29, 2006 · Comments (17)

Allahpundit at Hot Air does an excellent job of explaining what the Hamdan decision means in plain English. He translates the part of the decision which says that all jihadists captured during the war on terror must be provided Geneva Convention protections. This is the part of the ruling that... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Nancy Pelosi is Thrilled that Terrorists' Rights are Protected

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 29, 2006 · Comments (94)

Nancy Pelosi is thrilled with the Supreme Court's ruling that the terrorists can not be tried in military tribunals and that, as they plot to attack the US, they can do so with the knowledge that, should they be captured, their rights will be protected by the Geneva Conventions: WASHINGTON,... [Full Story]

Rating: 1/5 (1 votes cast)

SCOTUS Rules No Military Tribunals

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 29, 2006 · Comments (51)

From the AP: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti- terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said the proposed trials were... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

US Supreme Court Upholds College Military Recruiting Law

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: March 6, 2006 · Comments (14)

The Supreme Court voted unanimously that universities can lose federal funds if they refuse to allow military recruiters on their campuses. This is a big win for our military and the Bush administration and a slap in the face of elitist universities who have nothing but contempt for our military.... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

The Media's Abortion Hype

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 26, 2006 · Comments (7)

The media has been trying hard to get the American public into a fit about the South Dakota bill that would ban virtually all abortions. See these recent articles here, here, here, and here. Each of these articles insists that a big supreme court battle will ensue after it is... [Full Story]

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