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April 25, 2024

Washington: Supreme Court

  • Appeal in boy's burp arrest case relies on Gorsuch dissent

    6 years, 11 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — One of Neil Gorsuch's sharpest dissents as an appeals court judge came just six months before he was nominated for the Supreme Court. That's when he sided with a New Mexico seventh-grader who was handcuffed and arrested after ...

  • Citizenship a question for pig-mask suspect in heist at Bellagio

    7 years ago

    (AP) [{"text":"Police: Man in pig mask said he was forced into heist at Bellagio","url":"https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/mar/28/police-man-in-pig-mask-said-he-was-forced-into-hei/?utm_source=mostpopular&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=mostRead"},{"text":" Suspects flee after jewelry store robbery at Bellagio","url":"https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/mar/25/gunshots-fired-in-burglary-of-store-at-bellagio-in/"}] A man accused of wearing a pig mask during last Sunday’s robbery at the Bellagio was born in California, ...

  • Say no to Gorsuch, whose manifesto bodes ill for climate change fight

    7 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) [{"text":"Editorials - the Sun's viewpoint","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/opinion/editorials/"},{"text":"Columnists - local and syndicated writers","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/opinion/columnists/"},{"text":"Letters to the editor - readers' views","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/opinion/letters/"},{"text":"Write a letter to the editor","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/contact/letters/"}] Judge Neil Gorsuch was not on President Donald Trump’s first list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Gorsuch did, however, ...

  • Approach to the law makes Gorsuch good fit for Supreme Court

    7 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) [{"text":"Editorials - the Sun's viewpoint","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/opinion/editorials/"},{"text":"Columnists - local and syndicated writers","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/opinion/columnists/"},{"text":"Letters to the editor - readers' views","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/opinion/letters/"},{"text":"Write a letter to the editor","url":"http://www.lasvegassun.com/contact/letters/"}] Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be a worthy heir to the ...

  • At liberal Columbia U, Gorsuch raised a conservative voice

    7 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) As a conservative student at Columbia University in the mid-1980s, future Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was a political odd man out, and he was determined to speak up. "It is not fashionable at Columbia to be anything other than ...

  • A look at the reported top contenders for the Supreme Court

    7 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) A look at Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman and William Pryor, the federal appeals court judges who are seen as the leading candidates to be President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court. Each was appointed to the appellate bench by ...

  • Justices to hear free speech clash over offensive trademarks

    7 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) The Slants aren't exactly a household name when it comes to music, but the Asian-American rock band has certainly made its mark in the legal world. The Oregon-based group has spent years locked in a First Amendment battle with the ...

  • A mystery solved: Where is Scalia buried?

    7 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) FAIRFAX, Va. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial site, his family asked for privacy and Supreme ...

  • Contempt finding thrown out in defense lawyer handcuff case

    7 years, 8 months ago

    (AP) A deputy public defender was cleared Tuesday by a Nevada state court judge of a contempt-of-court finding by a Las Vegas judge who ordered her handcuffed and then sentenced her client to jail for petty theft. The deputy Clark County ...

  • Sotomayor: U.S. high court needs more diversity in many ways

    8 years ago

    (AP) NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the nation's highest court needs more diversity of personal backgrounds and professional experience, speaking as a vacancy has refocused attention on the court's makeup. During a talk Friday at Brooklyn ...

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