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Anti-Gay Church Prepares For US Supreme Court Case

FAC August 4, 2010

Members of a Kansas church sued for protesting outside a Marine’s funeral are gearing up to present their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in October. News August 4, 2010 By The Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ― The high court is scheduled to hear arguments Oct. 6 in the case of Westboro Baptist Church, which claims its protests outside a 2006 funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq were free speech protected by the

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First Amendment: State attorneys general sign ‘friend of court’ brief in Marine funeral case

donal brown June 3, 2010

Nearly every state in the union is backing the family of a Marine in a Supreme Court case pitting the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket their son’s funeral against the family’s right to privacy. -db ABC News May 31, 2010 By Devin Dwyer WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide

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First Amendment: State attorneys general sign ‘friend of court’ brief in Marine funeral suit

donal brown June 3, 2010

Nearly every state in the union is backing the family of a Marine in a Supreme Court case pitting the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket their son’s funeral against the family’s right to privacy. -db ABC News May 31, 2010 By Devin Dwyer WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide

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Public interest groups ask U.S. Supreme Court to overturn ruling they claim detrimental to Freedom of Information Act

donal brown June 1, 2010

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press joined other public interest groups in filing a brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit opinion that would extend privacy rights to corporations, potentially limiting investigations into such disasters as the West Virginia mining deaths and the gulf oil spill. -db Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Press Release May 27, 2010 The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press joined a friend-of-the-court

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Senate committee passes measures to boost judicial transparency

donal brown May 3, 2010

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a number of measures improving transparency in courtrooms including televising U.S. Supreme Court hearings. -db The Blog of Legal Times April 29, 2010 By Mike Scarcella The Senate Judiciary Committee passed several measures today addressing greater transparency in the judicial system—including televising U.S. Supreme Court hearings. One of the bills, the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act, would allow chief district and appellate judges to permit cameras in court. That bill

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