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News Supreme Court upholds eyewitness identification
Supreme Court upholds eyewitness identification
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
January 11, 2012 10:26:11 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Wednesday in Perry v. New Hampshire that the Due Process Clause does not require a preliminary judicial inquiry into the reliability of an eyewitness identification when the...

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News Federal appeals court allows enforcement of Texas abortion sonogram law
Federal appeals court allows enforcement of Texas abortion sonogram law
Katherine Getty
January 11, 2012 10:21:07 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday lifted an injunction on a Texas law that requires women to have a sonogram before undergoing an abortion , allowing...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on FCC indecency policy
Supreme Court hears arguments on FCC indecency policy
Julia Zebley
January 11, 2012 08:11:49 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday. In FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. , the court heard arguments on whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

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News Supreme Court overturns conviction due to DA withholding evidence
Supreme Court overturns conviction due to DA withholding evidence
Julia Zebley
January 11, 2012 07:31:09 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday in Smith v. Cain to overturn the conviction of Juan Smith due to the New Orleans District Attorney's office withholding material evidence from the...

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News Supreme Court upholds arbitration agreement
Supreme Court upholds arbitration agreement
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
January 10, 2012 02:13:45 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday in CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood that, because the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA) is silent on whether claims can proceed in an arbitrable forum, the Federal...

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Rights group seeks release of Guantanamo interrogation videos
Max Slater
January 10, 2012 01:43:12 pm

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the release of videotapes of the interrogation of an inmate held at the Guantanamo Bay prison . The CCR filed the...

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Turkish court accepts indictment against former president
Sung Un Kim
January 10, 2012 01:42:23 pm

The Ankara 12th High Criminal Court accepted an indictment on Tuesday charging former Turkish president Kenan Evren with crimes against the state in relation to the 1980 coup. The ex-president was the head of the 1980 military...

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News Supreme Court prohibits federal inmates from seeking damages from private prison employees
Supreme Court prohibits federal inmates from seeking damages from private prison employees
Hillary Stemple
January 10, 2012 01:34:45 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Minneci v. Pollard that where state tort law authorizes adequate remedies for individuals harmed by private employees working at a federal facility, and where...

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Tenth Circuit upholds ruling blocking Oklahoma Islamic law ban
Brandon Gatto
January 10, 2012 01:15:18 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday unanimously upheld a ruling blocking the implementation of an Oklahoma constitutional amendment that would have prohibited state courts from considering Islamic and...

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Supreme Court rules on timing of habeas corpus appeals
Hillary Stemple
January 10, 2012 11:54:36 am

The US Supreme Court issued a ruling on Tuesday in Gonzalez v. Thaler interpreting two sections of the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and holding that...

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John Marshall declared US judicial supremacy over states

On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."

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