As lawyers, lawmakers and legal experts continue to digest the 193-page U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding most of the federal health care law, including its individual insurance coverage mandate, one thing is clear: the decision will make an indelible impact on the way lawmakers create law, the way many attorneys work and the legacy of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.’s Court.

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Sometimes at the U.S. Supreme Court, words and labels mean everything.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered this week whether a sex offender convicted before the enactment of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the law and of an interim rule that retroactively applied the law to him.

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By Kimberly Atkins Lawyers USA The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tussled Monday with the limits of the exclusionary rule when the police conduct a search in a way that is lawful at the time, but later deemed unconstitutional ...

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