US Supreme Court takes up tobacco case for third time
The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Dec 3, 5:47 pm ESTThe case involves an ongoing tug of war between the high court and the highest court in Oregon.
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U.S. top court considers religious monument dispute
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 12, 7:37 pm ESTThe U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday on whether a city violated a religious group's free-speech rights by refusing to put its monument in a public park near a similar Ten Commandments display.
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Republicans File Suit to Overturn McCain Finance Law (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 13, 4:54 pm ESTNov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican National Committee filed a new legal challenge to the 2002 campaign finance law that bans political parties from taking corporate, union and unlimited individual donations.
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Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage'
WorldNet Daily - Thu Nov 13, 10:37 pm ESTMore than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Navy's sonar use for training
Detroit News - Thu Nov 13, 1:13 am ESTWASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a defeat to environmentalists Wednesday and cleared the way for the Navy to use high-powered sonar off the Southern California coast even if it poses a threat to whales and other marine mammals.
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CNN Student News Transcript: November 13, 2008
CNN - Wed Nov 12, 10:59 pm ESTNovember 13, 2008
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High court sides with Navy over whales
The Sacramento Bee - Thu Nov 13, 3:16 am ESTWASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Navy could use sonar in submarine-hunting training exercises off Southern California without heeding restrictions imposed by a lower court to protect whales and dolphins. The high court didn't question the scientific basis of concerns about harm to marine mammals but ruled that the Navy's need for the exercises was more important. The ...
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Whale of a ruling by Supreme Court
The Republican - Thu Nov 13, 6:43 am ESTGo Navy. The U.S. Supreme Court rightly sided with the U.S. Navy in a battle with environmental groups that had been trying to block the use of sonar in naval exercises off the California coast.
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Top court ponders Pleasant Grove case
Deseret Morning News - Wed Nov 12, 6:24 pm ESTPleasant Grove could be forced to remove the monuments from its parks or accept all donated monuments depending on the outcome of a Utah free-speech case heard Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Save the whales, but only when national security isn't at stake
Scientific American - Wed Nov 12, 3:31 pm ESTThe U.S. Supreme Court in a 5–4 decision today ruled that the Navy does not have to consider the effect of sonar on whales when training with sonar off the coast of California. "The Court does not question the importance of plaintiffs' ecological, scientific and recreational interests, but it concludes that the balance of equities and consideration of the overall public interest tip strongly in ...
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Court OKs Navy use of sonar off California coast
Contra Costa Times - Thu Nov 13, 10:35 am ESTFederal judge's injunction requiring Navy to take precautions during submarine-hunting exercises thrown out
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Little NW impact seen from Sup. Court sonar ruling
The Columbian - Wed Nov 12, 8:58 pm ESTThe U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow Wednesday to environmentalists hoping to curtail the Navy's use of sonar off the coast of Southern California to protect whales. But the decision to allow...
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Court rules for Navy in dispute over sonar, whales
WHBF-TV Quad Cities - Wed Nov 12, 10:22 am ESTWASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Navy in a dispute over its use of sonar off the California coast. In its first decision of the term, the court voted 5-4 to lift restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar in submarine training exercises.
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Supreme Court lifts limits on Navy sonar near whales
The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Nov 12, 5:03 pm ESTThe justices said restrictions off the coast of southern California jeopardized national security.
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Plans to restart Carlmont paper in place
San Mateo Daily Journal - Thu Nov 13, 6:01 am ESTSchool officials say the Carlmont High School newspaper could begin publication again early next year after having its journalism program suspended for what was deemed “inappropriate” content.
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Supreme Court Hears Fox Indecency Case
MultiChannel News - Tue Nov 11, 9:36 am ESTWashington -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on the Federal Communications Commission's policy of punishing TV stations for the one-time broadcast of the F-word and S-word during early evening hours when children are flipping through the channels.
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CHRONES, WARDEN v. PULIDO, MICHAEL R.. Decided 12/02/2008
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WINTER, SEC. OF NAVY, ET AL. v. NATURAL RESOURCES, ET AL.. Decided 11/12/2008
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