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Wal-Mart Sex-Bias Case Hits Possible Court Block
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appears ready to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of up to 1.6 million women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers. The 10-year-old lawsuit, argued in lively exchanges at the court Tuesday, claims that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest employer, favors men over women in pay and promotions. Billions of dollars are at stake if it is allowed to go forward. The case also could affect the future of other class-action lawsuits that pool modest ...
High Court Rules for Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent. The court's narrow, 6-3 ruling means that Hank Skinner, who was about an hour away from execution when the Supreme Court intervened last year, will not be put to death soon while his legal case continues. Michael Graczyk, AP Hank Skinner, here in December 2009, is on death row in Texas for triple slaying in on New Year's Even 1993. But the decision will not necessarily result in Skinner winning the right to ...
Justice Ginsburg Expects Health Care Cases (and Retirement) to Be a Ways Off
By Julie Moos - Politics DailyU.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made it clear that she does not plan to retire any time soon, nor does she expect challenges to health care legislation to arrive quickly for the high court's review. In an interview with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg at George Washington University last week, the 77-year-old cancer survivor also talked about her career as a justice and how she gets along with her colleagues. Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton and began serving in 1993. Here's what she said about retirement: One of the ...
A Glimmer of Hope for the Women of Wal-Mart
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyAt least 1.5 million women are wondering what's going to happen when the Supreme Court gets its hands on the class-action, gender-discrimination lawsuit against corporate giant Wal-Mart. That's the approximate number of plaintiffs in the case who have alleged they've been victims of institutional efforts by Wal-Mart to promote men over women and systematically pay women less than men. Technically, the only issue to be determined by the Supreme Court is whether a class of plaintiffs can be this big. But as SCOTUS watchers know, that hasn't always stopped the the highest court in the land from ...
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Calif. Video Game Law
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today questioned the legality of a California law that seeks to control the sale of violent video games. The justices invoked James Madison, 1990s video game "Mortal Kombat" and the Grimm brothers' fairy tales as they heard arguments from the state of California and representatives of the $20 billion-a-year gaming industry. At issue are games such as "Postal 2," in which gamers control a crazed protagonist as he murders and mutilates his way through everyday situations. Gamers can make the protagonist -- known as "Postal Dude " -- shoot, ...
Kagan's First Vote Not Enough to Stop Execution
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 27)--Welcome to the U.S. Supreme Court, where decisions are final. Elena Kagan cast her first vote Tuesday night as the newest member of the court. Unfortunately for convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan, Kagan cast her vote with the minority of justices, who failed to stay Landrigan's execution by lethal injection. The 5-4 ruling -- which was not signed, but received backing from Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito -- overturned decisions by a Phoenix judge and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to stay ...
Supreme Court Won't Take Case of Pair Barred From Bush Speech for Bumper Sticker
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTheir only offense was a printed slogan displayed outside the event, but the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of two people who were barred from a speech by President George W. Bush in 2005 because they showed up in a car with a bumper sticker reading, "No More Blood for Oil." The court majority gave no reason for not taking the appeal of Leslie Weise and Alex Young, who said a White House aide and two volunteers violated their rights by not letting them enter a public event at a Denver space museum where Bush was speaking, the Washington Post said. But justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ...
Elena Kagan's First Day: Fast Start, Early Out
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(Oct. 4) -- The Kagan has been released! Elena Kagan, the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court, waited approximately 15 minutes into her first case as an active jurist today before asking a question. The case, Ransom v. MBNA, involves bankruptcy law and marks Kagan's entry onto the ideologically divided Supreme Court bench. Following questions from Justices Samuel Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer, Kagan waded into her new career by asking a lawyer for Jason Ransom why his client, who owed $82,000 in credit card debt, should be allowed to shield his monthly ...
Elena Kagan's Supreme Court Investiture Set for Today
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyElena Kagan was quietly sworn in nearly two months ago as the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, but there will be pomp and circumstance today when a formal investiture ceremony takes place at 2 p.m. The ceremony is a formal affair, CNN reports, where the authority of the office is conferred. The Senate confirmed Kagan, 63-37, Aug. 5 on a mostly party-line vote. Among the cases she will confront in her first term will be disputes over noisy protests at military funerals, state bans on violent video games and the death penalty. Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, pledged to ...
Supreme Court Preview: Kagan Debuts, but Kennedy Is Still Center Stage
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWhen the United States Supreme Court ended the 2010 spring term in late June, the justices were mired in sadness. Martin Ginsburg, beloved husband of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a popular and powerful figure in Washington apart from his famous spouse, had just died. And Justice John Paul Stevens, the genteel veteran of 35 spring terms, had just retired. After a particularly rancorous term, which included a landmark campaign finance ruling and a concomitant public rebuke from the president, the justices were clearly ready for their summer vacation. But one of the many permanent things ...
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