Justice
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World
Supreme Court Frustrated and Wary Over Legal Shield for Tech Companies
The case, concerning a law that gives websites immunity for suits based on their users’ posts, has the potential to alter the very structure of the internet.
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US
When Do Creepy Facebook Messages Cross a Constitutional Line?
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in April on a question it once ducked: whether intent counts in criminal cases based on online threats.
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Newyork
Joe Biden Has a Bully Pulpit, and He Should Focus It on the Supreme Court
President Biden has been conspicuously quiet on the topic of the Supreme Court. Even as there’s an active debate about what to do about a court that has too often exceeded the bounds of its authority, he has avoided regular criticism of it. His ...
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US
U.S. Charges Four in Connection With the Assassination of Haiti’s President
The decision to charge the men, considered to be ringleaders in the assassination plot, in the United States is an indication of the chronic dysfunction of the Haitian justice system.
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US
2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers on Abortion and Democracy
The election for a swing seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has huge policy stakes for the battleground state. Cash is pouring in, and some of the candidates have shed any pretense of judicial neutrality.
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World
Move Over Moses and Zoroaster: Manhattan Has a New Female Lawgiver
Frenzied commuters in New York’s Flatiron district have been stopped in their tracks in recent days by an unlikely apparition near Moses, Confucius and Zoroaster. Standing atop the grandiose state courthouse is a shimmering, golden eight-foot ...
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US
Supreme Court Says It Hasn’t Identified Person Who Leaked Draft Abortion Opinion
The leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, published by Politico in May, was an extraordinary breach of the court’s usual secrecy.
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Newyork
Supreme Court Again Rejects Request to Block New York Gun Law
The latest emergency application came from several firearms dealers who said recent state laws violated the Second Amendment and conflicted with federal law.
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US
Supreme Court Evaluates Scope of Attorney-Client Privilege
The justices struggled to decide how to deal with documents that include both legal and business advice.
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US
Is Encouraging Unauthorized Immigration Free Speech or a Felony?
The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1986 law that makes it a crime to urge people to stay in the United States unlawfully can be squared with the First Amendment.