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ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) Politics and the Supreme CourtNew York TimesThe Supreme Court underscored its power to shape American life when it took major cases about the health care reform law, Arizona's anti-immigrant law and the Voting Rights Act in an election year. But this is not simply a case of the court thrusting …Arizona Immigration Law's [...]

MyFox Phoenix Arizona Immigration Law's Supreme Court Oral Argument Set For AprilHuffington PostThe Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear oral arguments over Arizona's controversial immigration law on April 25, the Court's final day of hearings for the term. The case, Arizona vs. United States, tests states' abilities to pass their own …Supreme Court [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 31 denied an insurer’s motion to stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari of a $ 92.9 million judgment that was reinstated against it in a class action lawsuit arising from hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Louisiana Citizens v. Oubre, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal government on Jan. 27 filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, saying cases pending before the court challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) do not present an occasion to consider issues of severability because the minimum coverage provision contained in the act is constitutional (Florida, et [...]

LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Supreme Court issued an opinion on Jan. 27 in which it applied the economic loss doctrine to a case alleging crop damage from the negligent application of an herbicide to the cornfields of the plaintiffs and remanded to the trial court for retrial (Thomas Lesiak, et al. v. Central Valley [...]

CTV.ca Assange takes legal battle to Britain's Supreme CourtCTV.caShe said that wasn't just a parochial British view, but rather a "fundamental principle" which stretches back 1500 years to the Codex Justinius, the famous Byzantine legal code. "No one may be a judge in their own case," Rose said. View full post on legal – Google [...]

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Supreme Court on Jan. 25 affirmed that accident and health insurers and not just health maintenance organizations are qualified to receive contracts to provide services to Medicaid’s aged, blind and disabled population (AlohaCare v. Gordon I. Ito, insurance commissioner, et al., No. SCAP-30276, Hawaii Sup.; 2012 Haw. LEXIS 22). View full [...]

The Supreme Court is guilty of a broad “failure to communicate” to the public it serves, constitutional scholar and law dean Erwin Chemerinsky said at a symposium Friday. And this failure extends beyond the Court’s stubborn resistance to allowing camera coverage of its oral arguments, he said. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Politico Health care reform: House GOP waits for Supreme CourtPoliticoHouse Republicans have tried to repeal various pieces of President Barack Obama's health reform law, but they haven't touched the least popular piece: the individual mandate. One reason for that: They don't want to give the Supreme Court a reason not …Obama Health Care Law Being [...]

If the Supreme Court rules that pharmaceutical sales representatives are exempt from FLSA overtime requirements, it could knock out class action claims pending against a half-dozen drug companies. But Novartis apparently wasn’t willing to gamble that the justices would see things the drug companies’ way. View full post on Law.com – Newswire