The Supreme Court is being asked to establish same-sex marriage as a constitutional right, but could also decide a more narrower question: Whether a state can revoke that right through referendum once it has already been recognized.
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Tiger Woods raised the profile of golf in America single-handedly because of his supreme greatness coupled with achieving such heights at such a young age and being the first dominant African-American star of his sport.
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Using its data crunching capacity, Facebook estimated that 2.7 million Facebook users changed their profile picture to a red equality sign in support of the proposition being argued before the Supreme Court - that government bans on gay marriage deprive our gay brothers of sisters of equal protection under the law.
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He was diagnosed with a proximal humerus fracture -- the humerus being the upper bone of the arm -- and as a result underwent what the Supreme Court said was reverse shoulder replacement surgery Saturday morning.
Justice Clarence Thomas was rated "qualified" -- the middle of three possible ratings -- when he was being considered for the Supreme Court in 1991.
Two law school professors, Benjamin Zipursky at Fordham University and Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond, said Plumlee's suit might end up being dismissed based on a decade-old Supreme Court ruling that plaintiffs can't recover alleged damages by claiming a company defrauded the FDA to get a drug approved.
Gordon is 1-0 in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, being the attorney of record in Meredith v.
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This week we have had quite a stir in the Supreme Court with hearings on both the Perry and Windsor same-sex marriage cases being held.
The Supreme Court can strike a blow for liberty--and for our future well-being and progress--with these two cases.
Lawyers representing Nigerians who accuse Royal Dutch Shell of being aiding human-rights abuses in their home country have filed a petition for Supreme Court review.
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Congress, besides being empowered to kick out presidents, also appoints Supreme Court judges, for a six-year but renewable term, from nominations made by itself, by the country's president and by the judiciary.
In May 1997 the Supreme Court unanimously found that the Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit should proceed against Mr Clinton, rather than being postponed until he was out of office.
The tribe, not a deity, was the supreme value, and each member had to subordinate his or her personal needs and desires to the well-being of the group, and fight to the death, if necessary, to ensure its survival.
After a four-year inquiry, the Charity Commission decided that druidry offered coherent practices for the worship of a supreme being, and provided a beneficial moral framework.
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Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, also known as Saeed al-Shahri, died after being wounded in the governorate of Saadah on November 28, said the Supreme National Security Committee of Yemen.
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And to spur the Democrats to hurry up, the president today appointed Peter Keisler, the assistant attorney general for the civil division, as the acting attorney general so that the current acting attorney general, Paul Clement - sound like musical chairs because it is - can go back to his day job of being the solicitor general and arguing cases before the Supreme Court.
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