Catholic Church chasing away members
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How to discredit a church: Be "pro life"or "go somewhere else."
Ruth Gilmer, Eleana Reyes and Alva Martinez have a few things in common, including their Hispanic heritage. Gilmer and her husband Ted Gilmer live in Kasson Township. She works at the Traverse City office of Rehmann Robson, an accounting firm, as an as read more
One of the most memorable moments of Cecelia Klingele's yearlong U.S. Supreme Court clerkship wasn't crafting an opinion on a particular case or listening to an oral argument.
Ohio on Friday became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates.
A filing in U.S. District Court shows Ohio will switch to a one-drug approach to lethal injection executions, with a muscle injection available as a back up.
The more people know about the U.S. Supreme Court, the less they like it, correspondents who cover the judicial body explained to a packed Robertson Hall on Wednesday.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee launched the Federalist Society's annual convention Thursday morning with a call to oppose President Barack Obama's most liberal nominees for the federal bench. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said that the confirmation process this summer of Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed that conservatives have a superior approach to interpreting the law. He ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that asks: For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, where is a company's principal place of business? The answer will be crucial in determining whether a corporation can be sued in federal court or in plaintiff-friendly state courts.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised on Tuesday to overrule a test for determining a corporation's principal place of business that effectively locates a majority of national companies in California.
Public colleges and universities must be vigilant and do more to protect academic freedom, particularly in the wake of court decisions limiting the free-expression rights of public employees, says the American Association of University Professors.
Minnesota lawyers protect rights of those on death row By Sam Glover | Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 The death penalty is a flawed institution in need of lawyers to ensure justice is done. Minnesota lawyers and law firms volunteer their time to do that. They face a daunting and exhausting — but important — task.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are divided over the constitutionality of life sentences without parole for youths convicted of crimes other than murder.
Former Senate majority leader uses talk show to attack investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes.
The planned execution tonight of John Allen Muhammad remains set following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal on Monday to stay the death sentence. Muhammad was convicted in 2003 in state court in Virginia for his role in the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks that killed 10 people. Justices John Paul Stevens, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a two-page statement, saying: "This case ...