Topic: U.S. Supreme Court
Today in HistoryToday is Monday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2010. There are 123 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 30, 1997, Americans received word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, ...
1Sixty-six New Year's revelers die and more than 200 are injured in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub.Longtime Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dies at 90.Jan. reports jobless rate reached 8.1 percent in February, highest since 1983.March 9Obama ...
Unlike other justices, Sotomayor becomes a celebrity outside the courtroomApparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.Since ...
Back in the 1990s when Robert Reich was Labor Secretary, his department gigged a professional baseball team for keeping minors?in this case, ballboys and batboys?working too late at night. Reich squelched the furor, but in fact, due to a Supreme Court decision, ...
Investigators wrong to seize list of MLB players who allegedly tested positive in 2003The infamous list that tarnished America's pastime and some of its biggest stars soon will be back in the hands of the Major League Baseball Players' Union.A federal appeals ...
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War IToday is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2009. On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. In ...
Federal Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated May 26 by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, has earned a centrist reputation in business cases: In 1995, she sided with Major League Baseball players in a confrontation with owners over free agency ...
Talk includes surprises about Supreme Court justice, another senator, his new friends WASHINGTON Even snippets of comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can make big news. Entire stories are written from sentence fragments grunted in a hallway.But Friday morning, Reid had ...
In her rulings, Sotomayor has often shown suspicion of bloated government and corporate power. She's offered a reinterpretation of copyright law, ruled in favor of public access to private information, and in her most famous decision, sided with labor in the Major ...
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