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To some jurists, high court ruling brings vindication
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTo judges and others who long battled strict federal sentencing rules for crack cocaine offenders -- considered draconian and racist by longtime opponents -- Monday's Supreme Court decision brought vindication. "I am delighted," said veteran Los Angeles...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, Entertainment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Military medical malpractice: Seeking recourse
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMinutes after routine surgery for acute appendicitis in October 2003, Staff Sgt. Dean Witt, 25, was being moved to a recovery room at a Northern California military hospital when he gasped and stopped breathing. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD:...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, Family, Entertainment, Television
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The candidates and the Supreme Court
Why are the two major presidential candidates virtually ignoring the importance of this election in determining the composition of the Supreme Court and the future of constitutional law? One of a president's most long-lasting legacies is in the judges...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, University of California, Irvine, Social Issues, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Say no to Summum's public display of religion
In a case that reads like a law-school examination question, the U.S. Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to rule that a local government that displays the Ten Commandments on public property must also make room for the teachings of other religions. The...Tags: Physiology, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, U.S. Supreme Court, Terrorism
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Bush and history
Asked six years ago about how history would judge the Iraq war, George W. Bush offered this characteristically cavalier response: "History. We don't know. We'll all be dead." Like the war that came to define it, Bush's presidency conceivably could be...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Heads of State, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Judges, Justice System
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Does Antonin Scalia hate gays?
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has been widely criticized for referring in a recent interview to "that homophobe Antonin Scalia," an injudicious exercise in name-calling that obscures Frank's larger and more valid point: that the opinions of the tart-tongued...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barney Frank, Crimes, Politics, Local Government
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The Senate's Philadelphia lawyer
If you had told me last Saturday that one of Sen. Larry Craig's Republican colleagues was covertly urging him to leave some wiggle room in his promise to resign, I like to think I instantly would have identified that colleague as Sen. Arlen Specter....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party, Justice System, Judges, Local Government
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Supreme Court greatly reduces damages in Exxon Valdez spill
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Supreme Court on Wednesday brought to a close the 19-year legal battle over the Exxon Valdez oil spill by sharply reducing the punitive damages to be paid by Exxon Mobil Corp. The court ruled that the oil giant must pay $507 million -- about one-tenth...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Water Pollution, Justice System, Judges, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Justices examine energy crunch
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSupreme Court justices on Tuesday heard a recounting of what lawyers called "the worst electricity market crisis in history." And they heard the story of how Enron Corp. and others helped create the spike in electricity prices in California and the West...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gray Davis, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Contracts, Justice System
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A U-turn on abortion
THE U.S. SUPREME Court on Wednesday executed an unconscionable U-turn on abortion, upholding a restrictive federal law that is virtually indistinguishable from a Nebraska statute it struck down only seven years ago. For all his paeans to precedent during...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health
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Iraq and the wobbly Congress
Today, Yoo and Ackerman discuss the ongoing use-of-force resolution. Yesterday, they interpreted the U.S. Constitution for answers. Later this week, they'll debate the hypocrisy of the left and the right on this issue, the questionable relevance of...Tags: Richard Nixon, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, Justice System, Allergies
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The Supreme Court's habeas hearing
Afew months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government transported almost 700 suspected terrorists who had been captured abroad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where the Bush administration assumed -- wrongly -- that they would have no...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Egypt, India, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, U.S. Military
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