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A tip to appellate lawyers (UPDATED)

Analysis With no dissent, the Supreme Court on Tuesday removed one potential immunity shield for foreign officials when sued in U.S. courts over claims that they carried out or allowed human rights abuses to occur in other countries.  A 1976 law that gives foreign governments’ immunity to many lawsuits in American courts, the Court declared, does

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Analysis: An elusive immunity issue

This morning starting at 10 a.m. Eastern, the Court is expected to issue one or more opinions, as well as orders from the Justices’ conference last week. We will relay them in the Live Blog below, with the assistance of our reporter at the Court, Lyle Denniston

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Live Blog: Orders and opinions | 6.1.10

Analysis More than four decades after the Supreme Court ordered police to warn suspects about their rights before questioning them, the actual day-to-day practice has not turned out to be a simple ritual under clear ground rules.  Encounters in interrogation rooms still and often are a test of wills, with detectives trying to get answers and

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Analysis: Tilting Miranda toward the police

UPDATE:  Justice John Paul Stevens on Friday afternoon refused to delay the June 3 opening of the criminal trial in Chicago of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother Robert.  The Justice issued no opinion, simply denying a stay of the trial in a brief order.  A letter about the order can be found

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UPDATE: No delay of Blagojevich trial

Reacting to a Supreme Court order to take a new look at judges’ power to control the release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the D.C. Circuit Court on Friday refused to order a new fact-gathering hearing for five Chinese Muslim (Uighur) prisoners and instead put back into effect a ruling that the courts have no

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New defeat for detainees

The Supreme Court expects to release final decisions in argued cases on only one day next week — Tuesday, June 1 (after the Monday Memorial Day holiday), the Court said Thursday afternoon.  The Court will issue orders at 10 a.m., followed by opinions.  Later in the Term, the Court may have more than one opinion-release

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Decisions on Tuesday

This morning starting at 10 a.m. Eastern, the Court is expected to issue one or more opinions, as well as orders from the Justices’ conference last week. We will relay them in the Live Blog below, with the assistance of our reporter at the Court, Lyle Denniston.

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Live Blog: Orders and opinions | 5.24.10

Rejecting the National Football League’s claim that it has across-the-board immunity to antitrust law when its teams join in a commercial activity, the Supreme Court unanimously cleared the way Monday for trial of a lawsuit against the joint marketing of the right to use the teams’ logos and trademarks on consumer goods.  The ruling applied

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NFL may face legal penalty

In a major victory for the Obama Administration’s detention policy, the D.C.

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