The U.S. Supreme Court served up plenty of red meat for conservative commentators Monday: Not only did it rule 5-4 in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who claimed discrimination in promotions practices, but in so doing, it…
U.S. Supreme Court Building. AFP PHOTO/Manny CENETA
Nancy Huerta is a Kansas City lawyer who represents parents in disputes over special education services provided by public schools. She says mutual respect is the key to avoiding conflict and resolving high-stakes cases…
Sonia Sotomayor | AP
President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal appellate court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court is a historic event that immediately reverberated among Latinos, women and ordinary Americans who seek to achieve lofty dreams despite humble beginnings.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Sotomayor…
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a claim of voting discrimination, sticking with what the Christian Science Monitor calls a “narrow” reading of the Voting Rights Act.
The Los Angeles Times said:
In a 5-4 decision, the court said officials need not consider…
An implantable defibrillator.
Americans who are injured by prescription drugs won an important protection last week: the right to sue for damages in state courts.
By a 6-to-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld damages awarded to Diana Levine, a Vermont woman who…
Tobacco companies have sold “light” cigarettes for decades by promoting their supposedly low tar content, implying that this might make them less harmful to smokers’ health than cigarettes with more tar. For most of that time, they’ve known the claim…
Is there anyone left in America who still thinks that just because a medication is approved for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration it’s perfectly safe and without product defects?
If so, he or she should type the words…
Man seemingly has endless capacity to engage in acts of the most grotesque inhumanity, and is especially adept at physical and emotional cruelty and brutality to the weak and powerless.
Child rape — hardly a rare occurence in this nation — is…
By a bare 5 to 4 majority last week, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed what should have been obvious:
• No president is above the law, especially when it comes to depriving people of their liberty.
• No prisoner may be denied the…
The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…
OK you poor, you elderly and you handicapped: If you don’t drive and don’t have a birth certificate or the money to obtain one and want to vote in Indiana this fall, you better grab your walkers or your wheelchairs…
