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POSTED: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The U.S. Supreme Court’s surgically narrow ruling prohibiting a farmer from using seeds harvested from patented herbicide-resistant soybeans has left lawyers with more questions than answers about the extent of patent owners’ rights in other emerging, self-replicating technologies.
POSTED: Monday, April 29th, 2013 at 10:59 am
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KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
Can a common practice in criminal defense trigger constitutional protections when it’s suddenly changed?
POSTED: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 at 9:30 am
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KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
Drawing a legal line to determine when human genetic material ceases to be a creation of nature and instead becomes a patentable product is not easy — even for the U.S. Supreme Court.
POSTED: Friday, March 29th, 2013 at 11:00 am
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DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES
A consumer class action should not have been certified because the plaintiffs’ expert testimony failed to establish that the case was susceptible to awarding damages on a class-wide basis, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4.
POSTED: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 at 1:17 pm
BY:
rick.benedict
Police engaged in a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when they used a drug-sniffing dog on a homeowner’s porch to investigate the contents of the home, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4.
POSTED: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
BY:
rick.benedict
During heated arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court over California’s voter-approved constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the justices verbally tussled with attorneys arguing over the law’s constitutionality — but also hinted that the case could have a surprise ending.
POSTED: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 at 10:15 am
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SYLVIA HSIEH, Dolan Media Newswires
Can an employer, faced with a purported class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act, avoid litigation by immediately offering a settlement to the sole plaintiff before a class is certified?
POSTED: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at 10:12 am
BY:
Correy Stephenson, Dolan Newswires
A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that a seminal Sixth Amendment rights case is not retroactive has provided clarity for attorneys while dashing the hopes of thousands of defendants.
POSTED: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
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KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
Exactly two weeks after Gov. Scott Walker proposed expanding DNA collection efforts in Wisconsin for those arrested on felony charges, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a related case Justice Samuel Alito Jr. called “perhaps, the most important criminal procedure case that this court has heard in decades.”
POSTED: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 at 11:10 am
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KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
Attempts to sort out the meaning of a confusing and oddly worded statute to determine whether a Navy surgeon is immune from liability for allegedly performing eye surgery without obtaining consent left the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court bleary-eyed.
POSTED: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
In a case that raises the question of whether judges, rather than juries, can constitutionally decide factors that could trigger an increase in the minimum sentence, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed reluctant to shake up a sentencing scheme that Congress and the courts have relied upon for more than a decade.
POSTED: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
During oral arguments that included a rare comment from Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether a state’s failure to give money to court-appointed counsel for a murder defendant should be weighed against the state in determining whether speedy trial rights were violated.
POSTED: Friday, January 11th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
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KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are trying to dissect the language of a poorly worded federal statute that protects drivers’ personal information from misuse in an effort to determine whether lawyers broke the law in looking for potential class action plaintiffs.
POSTED: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 at 10:27 am
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
Can an employer, faced with a purported class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act, avoid litigation by immediately offering a settlement to the sole plaintiff before a class is certified?
POSTED: Friday, November 30th, 2012 at 10:09 am
BY:
Associated Press
The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.
POSTED: Thursday, November 29th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tussled on Wednesday over the issue of whether a plain error sentencing appeal must be decided according to the law in effect at the time of sentencing or at the time of appeal.
POSTED: Monday, November 5th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed disinclined to back a lower court ruling allowing police to detain someone incident to the execution of a search warrant after the person had driven a mile away from the location being searched.
POSTED: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 at 11:59 am
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
Oral arguments in two Fourth Amendment cases before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday focused on a common question: just what does a dog’s nose know?
POSTED: Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 at 1:28 pm
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DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES
The Solicitor General is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to ignore the front of the line in the Defense of Marriage Act petitions for certiorari and instead agree to hear the last one filed.
POSTED: Friday, October 12th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
In a highly contentious argument that ran well past its allotted one hour on Wednesday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the constitutionality of a university policy that considers race as a factor in admissions decisions.
POSTED: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 at 10:14 am
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide if the federal government can be sued for damages for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
POSTED: Monday, October 1st, 2012 at 4:45 pm
BY:
Associated Press
Is it a house or a boat? Does a coffee mug float? The Supreme Court struggled with all types of questions Monday as it tried to figure out what kind of floating structures fall under maritime law, a question that could have a profound impact on popular businesses like floating casinos, hotels and restaurants.
POSTED: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 11:18 am
BY:
Associated Press
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that unions must give nonmembers an immediate chance to object to unexpected fee increases or special assessments that all workers are required to pay in closed-shop situations.
POSTED: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The Confrontation Clause does not bar an expert from testifying at a criminal trial that a DNA profile produced by an outside laboratory matched the defendant’s state lab DNA profile, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a fractured opinion.
POSTED: Monday, June 18th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
BY:
Associated Press
The Supreme Court has ruled that sales representatives for pharmaceutical companies do not qualify for overtime pay under federal law, a big victory for the drug industry.
POSTED: Monday, June 18th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
BY:
Associated Press
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a rape conviction over objections that the defendant did not have the chance to question the reliability of the DNA evidence that helped convict him.
POSTED: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The Merit Systems Protection Board provides the exclusive avenue of judicial review for federal employees’ adverse employment action challenges, even when those employees argue that a federal statute is unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
POSTED: Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
An informal vote taken by jurors before deliberations conclude and later reported to a judge in court does not amount to an acquittal, and therefore a retrial does not violate a defendant’s Double Jeopardy rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
POSTED: Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 11:58 am
BY:
Associated Press
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that three families cannot sue a mortgage company for allegedly charging them a loan discount fee without giving them a lower interest rate.
POSTED: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 at 2:10 pm
BY:
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires
The Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination that a parent’s years of residency are not imputed to a child is a permissible construction of federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
