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Brown v. Board of Education and the Constitution George Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit, Jr. after their victory in Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court’s decision in  Brown v. Board of Education sent a shockwave through much of the legal community. Scholars noted serious Constitutional problems with the ruling, and significant departures from principles of jurisprudence. More than 80 congressmen and senators signed the “Southern Manifesto,” charging that the justi...

Supreme Court takes up case that could limit Roe v. Wade: Justices agree to hear challenge to Mississippis ban on most abortions after 15 weeks The Court has agreed to take up the case of a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks First abortion case with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett  Considered test of laws that ban abortion when a fetus is not viable or able to survive outside the womb Gives the court chance to allow further restrictions or even rule against landmark Ro...

Mountain Of Fire And Miracles Overseer, Pastor Olukoya Loses Against Blogger, Maureen Badejo In US Court Over Defamation The US District judge, Haywood Gilliam, stated that the plaintiffs’ (Olukoya and MFM) motion for default judgment is denied and the case is dismissed. by SaharaReporters, New York May 17, 2021 A United States District Court in California has struck out a case entered by the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya, against a Nigeri...

Attorneys for real estate heir Robert Durst have filed court papers seeking an indefinite delay in the accuser killer's already-delayed murder trial. Citing Durst's "physical incompetence to proceed with trial," the defense is asking a California judge to release Durst on bail — and for a Monday evidentiary hearing to support their claims that Durst is too ill to proceed. The post Citing Cancer Diagnosis, Robert Durst Seeks ‘Indefinite’ Delay of...

Griffin seeks dismissal of information in federal criminal case Couy Griffin filed a motion to dismiss the information in the federal criminal case against him for his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Griffin, through his counsel, filed a motion on May 12 to dismiss the information "because it fails to state valid offenses and violates several constitutional protections," the motion states. Griffin, who serves as District 2 Otero County Commissioner, was arrested on Jan. 18 ...

Massachusetts Governor’s Pandemic Restrictions Challenged in Supreme Court A good-government group is taking to the Supreme Court its challenge of the constitutionality of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s 14-month-old pandemic-related state of emergency and its continuing restrictions on civic life and businesses. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a petition for certiorari, or review, with the Supreme Court asking the justices to review the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Cou...

Not so recently in the United States, same sex marriages were illegal. In the last century, there were laws on the books that prohibited folks from different races marrying.   Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights case in 1967 that recognized marriage as a fundamental right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which includes the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause. In 1958, Mildred Loving, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Our Unclaimed Property Team examines a pair of fast-tracked Delaware bills that would reform a swath of the state’s escheat laws in response to ongoing litigation and other disputes over audits and voluntary disclosure agreements. Defining, reporting, and liquidating virtual currency Adopting a permanent expedited audit program Rescheduling statutes of limitation, audit periods, and dormancy periods Two unclaimed property bills were...

Arkansas Looks to Protect Religious Liberty in State Constitution Commentary By Lathan Watts is director of public affairs for First Liberty Institute, a nationwide law firm dedicated to protecting religious liberty for all. If you adapted the old advertising slogan for the American company known for its jams, jellies, and preserves, “With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good,” to the American Civil Liberties Union, it might read something like, “If the ACLU labels your action one of ...

Of the three Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution dealt most directly with the outcome of the Civil War and the condition of the freed people. It contains five sections. The first defined as American citizens all persons who were native-born residents of the United States, which made freed people citizens for the first time. That in effect overturned the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that stated that no descendants of people i...