Supreme Court refuses health care law appeal
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, with the case not yet having wound its way through the lower US courts. The Supreme Court, the judicial authority of last resort, declined to hear the case brought by Steve Baldwin and the Pacific [...]
Tags:healt lawsuit,health care law,health care reform bill,judicial authority,supreme court Lawyer, News, November 12, 2010
Lawsuits challenge US Defense of Marriage Act
Gay civil rights groups trying to build momentum for a possible Supreme Court showdown filed two lawsuits Tuesday that seek to strike down portions of a 1996 law that denies married same-sex couples federal benefits. The lawsuits were filed in federal courts in Connecticut and New York and come just months after a federal judge [...]
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Grand jury retaliatory Kansas advocate supporters
Federal prosecutors in Kansas who couldn’t obtain a gag order against a strident patient activist later launched a secret grand jury investigation and issued subpoenas against the woman and her advocacy group ? moves some argue are nothing more than government retaliation against an outspoken critic. Siobhan Reynolds has taken her fight to quash the [...]
Tags:American Civil Liberties Union,attorney us,commite freedom press,federal prosecutors,kansas advocates Attorney, November 12, 2010
Court weighs sex differences in citizenship rule
Supreme Court confronted a U.S. citizenship law with evident distaste Wednesday because it treats fathers and mothers differently, even as justices offered little hope to a Mexican-born man who says he should be declared an American. If Ruben Flores-Villar’s mother had grown up in the United States instead of his father, he’d almost certainly be [...]
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Supreme court urged not to intervene in gay ban case
The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday not to intervene and require the Pentagon to immediately permit openly gay men and women to serve in the military. A gay rights group, the Log Cabin Republicans, challenged the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in a lawsuit filed six years ago. While the group [...]
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