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Moores honored for leadership qualities
news@jessaminejournal.comJessamine County resident, Barbara Jane “Janey” Moores, founder, president and CEO of BJM and Associates, Inc., was the recipient of the fifth annual Central Kentucky Athena Leadership Award presented by Distinguished Young Women of Kentucky...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court
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High court rejects part of Arizona immigration law
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court struck down key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants Monday but said a much-debated portion on checking suspects' status could go forward. The court did not throw out the state provision requiring police...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Career and Workplace, Police Arrests
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Gosnell's 'clinic of horrors'
It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of...Tags: The Huffington Post, Demerol (drug), Kermit Gosnell, The Washington Post, Social Issues
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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Book, Healthcare Laws, Barack Obama
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Supreme Court limits towing firms
WASHINGTON — A New Hampshire man who had his car towed when he was in a hospital recovering from a heart attack and the amputation of his left foot won a measure of justice at the U.S. Supreme Court. In a 9-0 decision released Monday, the court...Tags: Heart Attack, Port of Los Angeles, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, General Practitioners, Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Civil Rights
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer breaks shoulder in bike crash
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer broke his shoulder in a fall from his bicycle and underwent surgery Saturday morning, according to a court spokeswoman. The 74-year-old justice was resting comfortably and is expected to be released from...
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'I do' to marriage equality
In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families. The civil union law,...
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Supreme Court weighs 'loyalty oaths' for groups fighting AIDS
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Monday whether Congress violated the 1st Amendment when it required global groups fighting AIDS to explicitly oppose prostitution and sexual trafficking as a condition of receiving federal grants. Several...Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, Politics, Elena Kagan, Justice System
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Supreme Court hears custody dispute over adopted girl
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Family, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Interior Policy
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Plant Openings, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Clarence Thomas, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Mitt Romney
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Letters: Gay marriage's friends and foes
Re "Justices ponder gay marriage," Editorial, April 2 Same-sex marriage has been overpoliticized and over-intellectualized. What we're really addressing is the question of whether there should be a law dictating what marriage is. Laws are generally...Tags: Family, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Social Issues, Gays and Lesbians
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