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Controversial Cuba book can stay off shelves
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | 5 days ago
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A three-year battle that pitted claims of censorship against the right of Miami-Dade schools to remove from their shelves a book that portrays an inaccurate view of life in Cuba ended Monday on the steps of the U.S.
Tags: Cuba, Miami-Dade School Board, US Supreme Court, Miami Herald, North Korea, Pyŏngyang, Entertainment Culture, Vamos a Cuba, Fidel Castro, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, School Board, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Miami-Dade County Florida, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Supreme Court of the United States, Edward Earl Carnes, Censorship, Cuba ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, American Civil Liberties Union, Education
Redskins' trademark will stand
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Supreme Court turned away an appeal by a group of American Indians who said the Washington Redskins' nickname perpetuates racial stereotypes. The justices Monday let stand a lower court's rejection of the group's challenge to the National Football League...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Supreme Court Punts, Washington Redskins, National Football League, native americans, lets stand, americans indians, Washington, Laches, Boston, Pro-Football Inc. v. Harjo, Disparagement, Sports in Washington D.C., Redskin, Law Crime, allnews, Native American mascot controversy, FedExField, Supreme Court of the United States, Trademark, Native Americans in the United States, Hail to the Redskins, United States courts of appeals, Appeal, Appellate court, District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman, Supreme Court, Samuel Alito
Supreme Court looks at life sentences for juveniles
Washington :: DC :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility The Supreme Court broke along ideological lines Monday as it grappled with the question of whether some young criminals are beyond rehabilitation. The court listened to two hours of arguments in two separate cases that have the same core issue: Is it...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, The Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, North Florida, unusual punishment, Joe Sullivan, life sentencing, serving life, ideological lines
Court refuses to halt sniper's execution
Wheaton :: IL :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Under our normal practice, Muhammads timely petition for [appeal] would have been reviewed at our conference on November 24, 2009," he said in a two-page statement. "Virginia has scheduled his execution for November 10, however, so we must resolve the...
Tags: execution, d.c. sniper, terror, death, John Allen Muhammad, Ruane Washington Post, US Supreme Court, Virginia Department of Corrections, Mr. Muhammad, D.C
Court hears important patent case
Washington :: DC :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Supreme Court heard argument Monday in a case that might produce a modern definition of patent eligibility, with a significant effect on software. In order to obtain a U.S. patent, a creator or inventor in part must produce some thing that does something...
Can Prosecutors Be Sued By People They Framed?
Council Bluffs :: IA :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Do prosecutors have total immunity from lawsuits for anything they do, including framing someone for murder? That is the question the justices of the Supreme Court face Wednesday. On one side of the case being argued are Iowa prosecutors who contend "there...
Tags: US Supreme Court
Court rejects civil-rights era murder case
Washington :: DC :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility Supreme Court Monday refused to review the 2007 conviction of a former Ku Klux Klan member in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers...James Ford Seale was accused in the slayings of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, kidnapped...
Tags: Supreme Court Won't Review, US Supreme Court, Mississippi-Louisiana, Ku Klux Klansman, rights era, black teenagers, James Ford Seale, era cases
Record-setting 243 entries in Round the Sound race
Saint George :: Bermuda | 29 days ago
Credibility The event was organised by the Dolphin Swim Team of Bermuda and the Bermuda Open Water Swimmers. The Charity supported this year was the National Trust's "Buy Back Bermuda" Campaign. Dolphins Swim Club member Brian Frick said part of the reason the swim...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, US Supreme Court
Supreme Court to hear Uighurs' case
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility And the court's decision to hear it could further complicate plans to close the military prison in January, a deadline the Obama administration recently said it might be unable to meet. Last year, the court ruled 5 to 4 that a Guantanamo detainee had...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, supreme courts, The Supreme Court, United States, US Supreme Court, Homeland Security Department, Guantánamo Bay Uighur, Senate
US Supreme Court asked to hear R-71 case
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Supreme Court has been asked to rule on whether people who sign a referendum should have their names made public. The Supreme Court has been asked to rule on whether people who signed a referendum on gay rights should have their names made public. Backers...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Washington, appeals court, court asked, domestic partners, gay rights, federal appeals
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