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New mayor reflects on tumult, looks forward
Fourth in a series of profiles about those in the trenches of Costa Mesa's political battles. * Each Sunday the new mayor of Costa Mesa prays to God to help him forgive others, to help him not hold a grudge, to give him guidance for the week before...
Tags: Government, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chin Helen Mc Laughlin
Chin Helen Mc Laughlin passed away peacefully in her sleep on July 19, 2011 after courageously and successfully fighting lung and brain cancers. She was born in Boston in 1940 to Chinese immigrants. Her parents instilled in her and her brothers and...Tags: Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Cancer, Ice Cream, Elections
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Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions"
Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions" By Elizabeth Sherwood North Central Michigan College student There are many people who have played an important role in the journey to equality for all. The most notable of those people...Tags: Racism, Justice and Rights, Discrimination, Abraham Lincoln, Crime, Law and Justice
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Duncan Hosie: Don't expect any surprises from offensive Scalia
It seems these days everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made his...Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Anthony Kennedy, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Trials, Lawyers, Philippines, John G. Roberts, Jr., Politics
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...Tags: Lawyers, John G. Roberts, Jr., Politics, Justice and Rights, Anthony Kennedy
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Baseball, John G. Roberts, Jr., Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Why North Carolina can't have its own official church
In recent days my Facebook feed has been littered with links to stories about a bill in the North Carolina Legislature that would allow the state to establish its own religion. Here was another example, my outraged friends said, of Bible Belt...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Religion and Belief, Justice System, Politics, Church and State Relations
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Lawyers, Defense of Marriage Act, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John G. Roberts, Jr., Gays and Lesbians
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...Tags: Trials, Defense of Marriage Act, John G. Roberts, Jr., Elena Kagan, Politics
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The stakes before the court
WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try. The two big cases being argued this...
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Gays and Lesbians, Anthony Kennedy, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups
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A ruling on racial progress
I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham's Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or...
Tags: Racism, John G. Roberts, Jr., Politics, Justice and Rights, Judges
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