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Anthony Kennedy is sometimes known as the "swing vote" on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sometimes, however, he just swings and misses. Such was the case in his majority opinion last month that found the death penalty could not be imposed for the crime of child rape.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. David Vitter, R-La., on Friday introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong when it decided that applying the death penalty for people convicted of raping children is unconstitutional.
SELINSGROVE -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. will speak at Susquehanna University's rededication ceremony of the Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society in September.
U.S. Supreme Court justices on both sides in last term's landmark gun rights case resorted to original documents in making their arguments about the meaning of the Second Amendment. But they -- as well as the lawyers in the case -- used a little-known digital resource to find them: The Constitutional Sources Project, which has digitized and made freely available online more than 11,000 ...
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted July 24, 2008 A June U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the right of mentally ill defendants to represent themselves in court could affect the case of Joseph Duncan, who admitted killing four members of a North Idaho family.
The Justice Department is dealt a legal setback in enforcing Web "harmful to minors" law. But the U.S. Supreme Court could prove more friendly, if a 2004 ruling is any indication.
BOISE – A June U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the right of mentally ill defendants to represent themselves in court could affect the case of Joseph Duncan, the notorious killer and child molester who’s admitted to killing four members of a North Idaho family.
Published on: 03/22/2001 Drug-testing pregnant women and giving the results to police without the women's consent is unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The decision concludes an eight-year battle waged by 10 low-income South Carolina women. The decision does not resolve the debate over what is the best way to handle pregnant drug-users: treatment or prosecution. But it ...
The University has achieved unparalleled success in receiving Supreme Court clerkships with a fourth clerkship bestowed upon alumni in the past five years. Merritt McAlister, class of 2007 law school alumna, will clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens for the October 2009 term.
WASHINGTON (BP)--Louisiana has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling against that state's law permitting the death penalty for child rape after it was revealed the justices overlooked a similar federal measure in their ruling.
By By United Press International UPI Almanac for Wednesday, July 23, 2008.
The Child Online Protection Act suffers from a slew of fatal flaws that render the law unconstitutional under the First Amendment, the 3rd Circuit ruled on Tuesday. The court found that numerous terms in COPA were not "narrowly tailored" and that the law therefore failed a strict scrutiny test.
TUPELO - Daily Journal Web site commenters so far today say Dale Leo Bishop of Guntown deserves the death penalty he is scheduled to get by lethal injection at 6 tonight.
Louisiana prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children. The unusual request is based on the failure of anyone involved in the case -- lawyers on both sides as well as the justices -- to take account of a change in federal law in 2006 that authorizes the death penalty for members of the ...
Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision that bans executing child rapists, saying the majority of justices overlooked a federal law that would have supported the state's case.
A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens – as well as non-citizens – into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” even if they have engaged in no violent act and are living on U.S. soil.
