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By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With one supporter of affirmative action retired and another declining to participate because of a conflict of interest, the concept of affirmative action is barely hanging on by a thread in the United States Supreme Court as justices prepare to rule in a case that involved [...]
Harrisburg, PA, September 18, 2012: In a potentially significant victory for Democrats, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a lower court’s decision to uphold the states’s restrictive new voter ID law on Tuesday, and asked the judge to consider enjoining it instead. The law, passed by a Republican legislature and governor, requires voters to have specific, [...]
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. providing a surprise supporting vote, the United States Supreme Court gave President Barack Obama a major victory Thursday by upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act.In the most watched Supreme Court case since Bush v. Gore in 2000, [...]
Special to NNPA from Afro-American Newspaper The nation’s highest court could decide whether to review President Barack Obama’s health care reform law as soon as Nov. 10, Politico reports. Five opponents of the law and the Obama administration have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the law’s requirement for all Americans to buy [...]
By Fungai Maboreke Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case that tests the right of U.S. courts to try corporations for human rights violations committed anywhere in the world. The case involves a lawsuit brought by families of 12 men from Ogoniland, Nigeria’s [...]
A group of House Democrats alleging that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated ethics rules by failing to report his wife’s income called for a federal investigation into the matter today. The group of 20 House Democrats led by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to the U.S. Judicial Conference, the governing [...]
On August 12, 2011, the Supreme Court of Alabama issued a Writ of Mandamus to stay the enforcement of the trial court’s order of August 3 that the electronic bingo machines seized from Greenetrack be returned. “It is ordered that the enforcement of the trial court’s order of August 3, 2011, is staying [...]
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