In February 2008, I wrote a column about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari in Herring v. United States I predicted the court would conclude that the exclusionary rule did not apply to the facts of the case. ...

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Supreme Court won’t revive Internet porn law The U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting a Bush administration appeal, refused to resurrect a federal criminal law that would have punished people for making pornography available to children through commercial Web sites. The justices, ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether New York and other states can enforce their anti-discrimination laws against federally chartered banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. The justices will hear arguments from New York ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider how much leeway public school officials have to search students suspected of carrying prescription drugs or other items in violation of school rules. The justices last week agreed to decide whether an Arizona school ...

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court gave prosecutors more ability to use evidence obtained in violation of the Constitution, ruling against a man who was arrested and searched only because of a police clerical error. The justices, voting 5-4 along ideological ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a dispute between the Missouri Public Service Commission and Southwestern Bell Telephone over the authority of the commission to enforce a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The high court denied the commission’s ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider overturning a central aspect of the Voting Rights Act, setting up a constitutional showdown over Congress’s power to protect the rights of minorities at the polling place. The court will review the ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court signaled interest a fight over the future of home television recording, asking the government for advice on a challenge by networks and studios to a new service planned by Cablevision Systems Corp. A lower court concluded ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by General Motors Corp., refusing to stop a lawsuit that accuses the automaker of concealing a parking-brake defect on almost 4 million pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles. The justices, without comment, left intact ...

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Sprinting furiously to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the radioactive Rod Blagojevich, Democrats for weeks seemed not to notice certain obvious truths. Law trumps politics. Blagojevich remains governor of Illinois. He is an innocent man under ...

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