The Supreme Court has ruled that police only need an anonymous tip – and no other evidence — to pull a vehicle over and search it, the United States Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling in a case called Prado ...
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A Landmark Supreme Court Win For Property Rights
Abandoned railroad lines belong to private property owners and not the federal government, the US Supreme Court has ruled in a case that observers called a major victory for property owners, particularly ones out West. Among other things, the ruling ...
Read More »Internment Camps Will Return To America, Supreme Court Justice Says
The nation’s longest serving Supreme Court justice believes that internment camps could return to America in the future – and that the nation’s highest court would uphold it. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia made the comments while teaching a law school ...
Read More »Supreme Court To Decide Who Can Buy & Sell Guns
More than two dozen states and a U.S. territory have filed a brief in a lawsuit against the federal government regarding legal gun purchases and transfers. The issue concerns the federal government’s attempt to prosecute those who legally buy guns ...
Read More »Obama Administration Gets Its Way As Supreme Court Declines NSA Review
The Obama administration didn’t want the US Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the federal government’s collection of large numbers of telephone records, and it got its ways Monday when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...
Read More »Seattle Seizes 103-Year-Old Woman’s Parking Lot To Build … A Parking Lot
In the most bizarre eminent domain case in years, the Seattle City Council has decided to seize a 103-year old woman’s parking lot so the city can use the site for its own parking lot. “The city of Seattle is ...
Read More »GMO Opponents Score Big Win As Senate Kills Monsanto Protection Act
Organic farmers and opponents of GMO crops scored a big victory Tuesday when US Senate leaders announced they would let the so-called Monsanto Protection Act expire at the end of the month and not work to renew it. Under the ...
Read More »Land Grab: Governments Finding New Ways To Seize Americans’ Homes
Government on all levels is finding frightening new uses for the power of eminent domain, which is the legal right of governments to seize property for public purposes. In recent years, many governments have changed their definition of eminent domain ...
Read More »Farmers Opposing Monsanto GMO Seeds Appeal To US Supreme Court
Monsanto seed patents are being vocally opposed by a group of farmers and advocacy organizations in an appeal to the US Supreme Court. The 73 various organizations and individual farmers filed a lawsuit in 2011 against the biotech giant to ...
Read More »Justice Dept. Sues To Overturn Texas Voter Photo ID Law
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Texas over the state’s voter photo ID law, which requires citizens present a photo ID before voting. The US Supreme Court earlier this summer struck down part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act ...
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