Tag Archives: Constitutional-Law

Thankful for Law Review Article Titles

As students heading into the Thanksgiving break before the last stretch of classes and then final exams, it’s easy to focus more on what we’re not thankful for than what we should be thankful for.…

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Supreme Court Addresses First Amendment Case

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on Wednesday that a Westboro Baptist Church was constitutionally protected from a lawsuit brought by  the father of  U.S Marine Lance Corporal Matthew A. Snyder, alleging emotional distress, invasion of…

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Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of the Health Care Bill

Last week in Pensacola, Florida, Judge Roger Vinson allowed a lawsuit brought by 20 states, 2 individuals, and The National Federation of Independent Business, to progress forward.  Read the full text here. A full…

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Funeral Protest Case to Test Limits of First Amendment

On Wednesday the Supreme Court of the United States started hearing arguments in the case Snyder v. Phelps in which a fundamentalist Baptist church has appealed an adverse five million dollar award for IIED on…

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Federal Circuit Extends Standing to “Poaching” Patent Lawyers

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit substantially broadened standing for lawyers looking to poach deep-pocket defendants when it held in Stauffer v. Brooks Brothers Inc., 2010 WL 3397419 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 31,…

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