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U.S. Supreme court chooses Alabama over Kinston for voting rights case

Source: Charlotte Observer, Nov 15 2012, 7:41am CST

tool goes here The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a group of Kinston residents’ petition to hear its challenge to Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Right’s Act, effectively bringing the local 2 1/2-year legal saga to an end. The nation’s h ...

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4 hours ago

Another Supreme Court Dare

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 22 2013, 6:37pm CDT

Thomas Perez is struggling to be confirmed as Labor Secretary, but he still carries a big stick at the Justice Department. Witness the Solicitor General's brief asking the Supreme Court not to accept a case that might jeopardize Mr. ...

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26 weeks ago


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"It’s not like what we’ve done is for naught ... I think these two cases have brought us to where we are today. It’s up to the courts from here. But on a very positive note, if we had not filed suit, we would not have nonpartisan elections in 2013."


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UPDATE 1-Pearson agrees $75 mln settlement in U.S. e-books case

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 22 2013, 9:12am CDT

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Pearson's Penguin said on Wednesday it would pay $75 million in damages plus costs and fees as part of an agreement with the United States over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market. Pear ...

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1 day ago

Justice Department leak case prompts backlash from watchdog groups

Source: MPR | Minnesota Public Radio  |   May 21 2013, 3:00pm CDT

Critics said the government's suggestion that James Rosen, Fox News's chief Washington correspondent, was a "co-conspirator" for soliciting classified information threatened to criminalize press freedoms prote ...

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1 day ago

Will the DoJ Get Its Day in Court With S&P?

Source: Wall Street Cheat Sheet  |   May 21 2013, 1:07pm CDT

On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department petitioned a federal judge to allow its case against Standard ...

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1 day ago

U.S. defends $5B fraud case against S&P

Source: Chicago Tribune  |   May 21 2013, 7:10am CDT

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday asked a federal judge to deny Standard ...

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2 days ago

Supreme Court to rule on prayer at government meetings

Source: Salon  |   May 20 2013, 3:53pm CDT

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case on whether or not prayer may be offered at government meetings. The justices agreed to determine if an upstate New York town council violated the ...

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2 days ago

As Supreme Court Weighs Voting Rights Act Changes, No Racial Gap in Voting Problems

Source: Pew Research Center  |   May 20 2013, 9:36am CDT

In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get “pre-clearance” from the Justice Department before they make any changes to their election laws. The ...

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2 days ago

Associated Press may take legal action against DOJ

Source: The Blaze  |   May 20 2013, 9:08am CDT

Associated Press lawyer David Schulz is considering legal action after it was reported that the Department of Justice last year secretly seized phone records of the AP staffers. We’re either going to have to go to court or we’re going to have to have the ...

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2 days ago

Real Outrage Is That Surveillance of AP Reporters' Calls Was Probably Legal

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 20 2013, 7:50am CDT

The real outrage about the Justice Department's use of secret subpoenas for the phone records of Associated Press journalists is that, based on the information that has surfaced to date, it was probably legal. Under federal law the Justice Departmen ...

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