Put The Court’s Health Care Debate On The Air

November 18, 2011

If ever a case should be broadcast, the forthcoming Supreme Court argument over health care reform is it. But the Court has tuned us out.

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A Good Deal, If You Can Get It

October 5, 2011

Dick’s Sporting Goods offered me up to 40 percent off everything in their new store. Well, not quite everything.

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The Most Important Case You Never Heard Of

August 10, 2011

Before Roe, before Brown, the Wickard case reshaped America. What will happen if the Supreme Court overturns it?

American Fathers, American Kids

July 27, 2011

Hurdles are higher for foreign-born children of U.S. fathers. The law should affirm that all American parents have American kids.

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Wal-Mart’s Close Call

June 21, 2011

On the surface, Monday’s Supreme Court decision to block a massive law suit against Wal-Mart Stores was a unanimous move to put the brakes on runaway class actions. But dig a little deeper and you will find that although the court made the right call, it was a close call. Only a 5-4 majority agreed to end the case outright. The four justices appointed by Democrats all wanted to send …

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A Less Partisan State Of The Union?

January 19, 2011

President Obama and some members of Congress are trying to set a new tone at next week’s State of the Union address, having apparently concluded that last year’s hyper-partisan smackdown did not serve them well. Bucking more than 200 years of tradition, some lawmakers have said they plan to sit with members of the opposite party when the president makes his Jan. 25 address. Sen. Mark Udall, D.-Colo., was the …

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Don’t Like The Speech? Attack The Speaker

October 22, 2010

If you don’t like what someone has to say, you can attack his right to say it. That is the approach President Obama and fellow Democrats have adopted when it comes to political advertising by businesses. In his State of the Union address last January, the president openly challenged a Supreme Court ruling that said corporations and labor unions have the right to express their opinions in the pivotal weeks …

Does The Supreme Court Need Reserve Players On The Bench?

August 17, 2010

A standing-room-only crowd filled the courtroom of Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently when retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor appeared there to help decide three Montana cases. Although it is rare to see a former member of the nation’s highest court fill in on a lower court panel, it is not unusual in the federal court system for judges to substitute for one another. The only court …

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Privacy Has Its Place, But Not Necessarily At Work

July 8, 2010

If you want to keep your personal business to yourself, you should not conduct it at work — especially not on your employer’s equipment. Though it seems obvious to me, Sgt. Jeff Quon, a police officer from Ontario, Calif., had to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to learn this lesson. The court ruled 9-0 in favor of the obvious, reversing a federal appellate court’s prior decision. …

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