Prye v. Blunt, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Judge Otrie D. Smith, October 26, 2004 . Excerpt:Missouri is denying Prye the...
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Why the Supreme Court is Not an Election Issue, and Why It Should Become One
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...
Brief supporting state laws against same-sex marriage [AG CA]
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, October 8, 2004 [California's opening brief in the San Francisco gay marriage case in San Francisco Superior Court; in an acompanying press release the AG's office noted that "Pursuant to the Attorney General's duty to...
President Vladimir Putin - Russia's political and legal response to terrorism
Address to the enlarged Government meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin, September 13, 2004 . Read the text of the speech in English. Excerpt: We must...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says today's Democrats should take note of the fact that in electoral contests as elsewhere, two wrongs don't make a...
High Stakes in November: George W. Bush and the Future Federal Judiciary
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that perhaps the most far-reaching impact of the upcoming November election is who will get to appoint the nation's judges - including its Supreme Court...
JURIST Guest Columnist LTC John M. Bickers, a law professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, says that two recent decisions regarding the death penalty show that the Supreme Court seems to accept capital sentencing as a punishment,...
Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2003 . Read the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
It should be obvious to everyone by now that no one ever will know which presidential candidate actually won more popular votes, either in Florida or nationwide. The Florida recount process can never yield an accurate result, for efforts to...