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Supreme Court overrules right to counsel precedent

May 26, 2009 11:20:00 AM

The US Supreme Court issued three opinions on Tuesday. In Montejo v. Louisiana , the Court decided 5-4 to overturn its 1986 decision in Michigan v. Jackson , which found that...

May 26, 2009 10:04:00 AM

US President Barack Obama on Monday announced Sonia Sotomayor as his nomination for the US Supreme Court . Sotomayor, currently a justice for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...

May 20, 2009 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the US Supreme Court's ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal suggests that the Court may be trying to set up a system wherein lower level officials...

May 18, 2009 03:19:00 PM

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Ashcroft v. Iqbal that a complaint filed against former US Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and...

May 18, 2009 10:49:00 AM

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled 7-2 in AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen that companies do not violate the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) by failing to...

May 18, 2009 07:28:00 AM

US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday that he wants the Supreme Court nominee who will replace retiring Justice David Souter to be someone who will apply the law without bias....

May 15, 2009 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, says that while the US Court Supreme Court might benefit from the nomination of an elected public official, President Obama should not nominate such a person to...

May 14, 2009 10:02:00 AM

US President Barack Obama is considering six possible nominees for the US Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice David Souter , including five women, the Associated Press reported Thursday. This six names...

May 8, 2009 08:49:00 AM

Newly-declared Democratic Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) was appointed chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on Thursday. Specter received that post from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who voluntarily...

May 5, 2009 09:48:00 AM

US Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was chosen Monday by Senate Republicans to replace newly-declared Democrat Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) as ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee . Sessions will play a key role in questioning President Barack...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.