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• BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts Hospitalized

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  while on vacation, the Supreme Court told NBC News. Roberts, 52, fell at his summer home between 2 and 3 p.m. ET off Port Clyde. The court said he was taken to a hospital as a precaution. An emergency medical technician said Roberts was conscious and alert during the ambulance ride, NBC News’ Pete Williams reported.

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• Roberts Takes A Slip And Fall

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:25 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized earlier today after falling at his summer home in Port Clyde, Maine. Bloomberg reported Roberts slipped on a dock, while an MSNBC anchor offered some speculation about whether Roberts was "being a...

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• Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:13 am

  Tags: Supreme Court, News

  resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight. “It’s my understanding he’s fully recovered, said Christopher Burke, a spokesman for Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where Roberts was taken. Roberts, 52, was taken by ambulance to the medical center, where

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• Supreme Court Redux

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: Craziness, Nation, Supreme Court

  that was decided by the Supreme Court on May 29 of this year. I wasn’t blogging at that time, so I’ll use this an excuse to talk about the case. It seemed pretty obvious that there was sex discrimination involved (she made significantly less than all her coworkers in the same position and one of her supervisors said

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• Roberts released

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  Chief Justice John Roberts has been released from a Maine hospital. He spent the night after falling in the wake of a seizure, media outlets reported Tuesday. Roberts has reported having one prior seizure, in 1993. Press Secretary Tony Snow...

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• Judges fighting litigation with Supreme Court's "obvious" patent ruling

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Descision, Legal, Obvious Patent, Obvious Patents, Obviousness, Obviouspatent, Obviouspatents, Rulings, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Ruling, Supremecourt, Supremecourtruling

  changed his mind. Using the Supreme Court's decision as a guideline, the judge now says that the patents were simply a combination of ideas and inventions which had been publicly available, and that their combination was a logical next step -- thus eliminating the need for a costly and time consuming court battle. Hopefully this will knock out

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• Jeffrey Goldberg Wants a Pony

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Apple, Bancroft Family, Bear Stearns, Blogs, Coach, David Bradley, Dita Von Teese, Dow Jones, Forbes, Jeffrey Goldberg, John Roberts, Milberg Weiss, Phillip Lim, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, Supreme Court, The Atlantic

  how's the rest of the court holding up? [AP via Law.com] • Even though it looks like Milberg Weiss lied about paying kickbacks to class-action clients, some legal scholars argue that shouldn't be considered such a bad thing. [Law Blog/WSJ]

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• Oliver Hill remembered

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:02 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  Oliver Hill is being recalled and celebrated today as one of the legal giants of the civil rights era. Hill, who worked with Thurgood Marshall on the group of cases that resulted in Brown v. Board of Education, died Sunday...

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• Alito on the job

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:17 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. went live on C-SPAN Tuesday night, in a broad-ranging dialogue about his 18 months inside the Marble Palace. The broadcast originated in Malibu at the Pepperdine University School of Law, with Alito and longtime...

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• They Hate Freedom, Except Of Choice: New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda ...

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Cspan, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Scotus, Supreme Court, They Hate Freedom Except Of Choice

  New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse throws a fit and refuses to allow C-Span to televise a panel discussion (just like Scalia), because she got in trouble last year for basically...

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• They Hate Freedom, Except Of Choice: New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda ...

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Cspan, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Scotus, Supreme Court, They Hate Freedom Except Of Choice

  York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse throws a fit and refuses to allow C-Span to televise a panel discussion (just like Scalia), because she got in trouble last year for basically admitting she’s a dirty baby-killing liberal (just like Ginsburg). Now everyone knows she’s a liberal and a jerk (just like, uh…

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• State of Abortion

  Published: August 11, 2007, 12:12 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court, Healthcare

  Supreme Court allowed the banning of ‘partial-birth’ abortions without a health exemption. We already see what this may bring: In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many abortion providers in Boston and around the country have adopted a defensive tactic. To avoid any chance of

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• Breyer on losing

  Published: August 12, 2007, 12:54 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  I had a difficult year, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer confessed to the American Bar Association in San Francisco Saturday night. Speaking at the ABA's opening assembly, Breyer said he wasn't happy being on the losing side in so many...

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• Listening To Reason

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: General, Democrats, Culture, Politics, Republicans, Libertarian, Democracy, Supreme Court

  the discussions out of the courts and back to the realm of local policy, where we might once again debate the politics of abortion as neighbors and friends, would be a good start. On that much, at least, she's correct. The pro-choice / pro-life split suggests that only two options are on the table, when in fact far more positions

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• Supreme Court: Denies relief for Gitmo prisoner

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Supreme Court

  the matter to the entire Court--now in its summer recess. Lawyers for the government, in papers filed Thursday, had argued that the Supreme Court had no authority for interfering with the transfer, saying it would be meddling in diplomatic relations between two sovereign nations. Belbacha has been deemed by the Pentagon to not pose a

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