Constitutional Law

Byline: Staff and wire reports Days remaining in session: 15 Sending a message to the U.S. Supreme Court: The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 38 to 29 to support a memorial opposing...

Indiana casinos saw their take from gambling fall in 2011, and new competition in Ohio and perhaps other neighboring states virtually guarantees things will get worse from here. The house win at 13...

Prosecutors in New Jersey are asking a court for the birth dates of all potential jurors for purposes of running criminal history checks on them. In a motion argued in New Jersey Superior...

I didn't have a special affinity with Scots when I married one many years ago. But I've always been a believer in hybrid vigour and I was thinking about the next generation. In...

The corruption-ridden Honduran police force needs urgent purging, according to academics and human rights activists. Involvement of police, from chiefs all the way down to bottom-ranking officers, in criminal activities--homicide, drug-trafficking, car theft,...

Twenty-two years after the US invasion of Panama in 1989 removed him from power (NotiCen, Dec. 22, 1989), former dictator Manuel Noriega (1983-1989) arrived in his home country on Dec. 11. Since 2010,...

The federal government was immune from liability in lawsuits brought by hurricane victims who were allegedly exposed to dangerous levels of formaldehyde while living in emergency housing units, the 5th Circuit has ruled...

After punting on the issue in the past, the U.S. Supreme Court has again waded into the choppy waters of privacy protection in the digital age in a case involving the warrantless use...

Colorado's hospitals are expecting a legislative session with few health care bills -- but that doesn't mean they don't have some concerns. Rep. Marsha Looper has filed a bill that seeks to repeal...

By IsraelNationalNews.com & Ha'aretz The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times resigned Monday and put his paper up for sale after he speculated in print (utilizing his First Amendment Freedom of...

Despite repeated SCAF assurances that it will hand full control to the new civilian leaders, the parliament and a new president are expected to face a fierce power struggle. The SCAF has already...

You probably never imagined that you would ever see the terms "Bigfoot" and "First Amendment" in the same sentence, but somehow a staged appearance by the hairy beast at a famed New Hampshire...

The attaching of a GPS device to a vehicle, and the use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled....

Police could conduct a search of a domestic violence suspect's home based on the consent of his common law wife - even though a short time earlier the man had expressly refused to...

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AUSTIN, Texas -- Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Federal Circuit or district courts have jurisdiction to hear the appeal of a Merit Systems Protection Board decision that contains disputed termination and...

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