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  Category:Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Articles - Supreme Court of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
The Roberts Court (2005-Present) began with the confirmation and swearing in of John Roberts on September 29th, 2005, and is the current court.
Thus, for example, the Court between 1969 and 1986 is referred to as the "Burger Court" (for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger) and the Court between 1986 and 2005 is referred to as the "Rehnquist Court" (for Chief Justice William Rehnquist).
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 TROXEL V. GRANVILLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the Court of Appeals’ view, that limitation on nonparental visitation actions was “consistent with the constitutional restrictions on state interference with parents’ fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of their children.” 87 Wash. App., at 135, 940 P.2d, at 700 (internal quotation marks omitted).
The court disagreed with the Court of Appeals’ decision on the statutory issue and found that the plain language of §26.10.160(3) gave the Troxels standing to seek visitation, irrespective of whether a custody action was pending.
Accordingly, the judgment of the Washington Supreme Court is affirmed.
supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/99-138.ZO.html   (4341 words)

  
 Supreme Court of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Seal of the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States to interpret and decide questions of federal law, including the Constitution of the United States.
The powers of the Supreme Court are established in the first and second sections of Article Three of the Constitution: Article III :: The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
The reporter of decisions is responsible for publication of the Court's rulings.
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 LLRX.com - Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
The decision summaries provide the holding from the United States Supreme Court and a brief overview of the Court's reasoning.” Cases are categorized by year and coverage starts with the 2001-2002 term.
Researching the Supreme Court of the United States by Jill Ann Duffy and Elizabeth Ardella Laub Lambert (2000).
Decisions from 1998 to the present are arranged by subject and/or constitutional amendment.
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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three Reporters have served in the Massachusetts Legislature, one as a judge of the Superior Court, one as Attorney General of Massachusetts, four as Associate Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, one as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and one as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
The printed advance sheets and bound volumes remain the official publication of the courts' decisions and the bound volumes continue to be the official archive of the courts' decisions.
In addition to the opinion of the court, a slip opinion contains the catchwords (but not the headnotes prepared by the office of the Reporter of Decisions), which alert the reader to the kind of case that is being released, a statement of the procedural history of the case, and a listing of appellate counsel.
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 Research Guides - United States Supreme Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Supreme Court is the court of last resort in the United States.
The Supreme Court provides transcripts of oral arguments beginning with the 2000 term; arguments are available within 10-15 days after the transcripts are complete.
Included in these databases are: opinions authored or joined by the justice from the Supreme Court and lower federal and state courts, opinions from cases in which the justice was the attorney of record, Congressional testimony regarding the justice’s nomination to the Court and selected articles by the justice.
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 The Supreme Court of the United States
United States Law Week, a weekly law journal from BNA, summaries of cases on the court's dockets and up-to-date status information in the Supreme Court Today section.
Later, "preliminary prints" of the United States Reports are printed, and three years later, once the Court has made its final corrections, bound volumes of United States Reports are printed.
Johnny H. Killian and George A. Costello (eds.), The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation: annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992.
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 SCOTUSblog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
That decision, the Department said in Jefferson's case, "made clear that the only exception" to the rule against a pre-trial appeal "is for cases in which the motion is solely for return of property and is in no way tied to a criminal prosecution" in being against the would-be appealing party.
The Supreme Court, over three Justices' dissents, on Tuesday evening temporarily blocked the execution in Mississippi of a man whose lawyers contend he was not mentally competent to make a decision to drop all appeals and allow his execution to go forward.
Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro and a panel of distinguished Supreme Court practitioners analyze the Roberts Court, the substance of the 2005-06 term, the winning and losing strategies, and the outlook for the 2006-07 term.
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 United States Supreme Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The decisions are supplemented with a summary and headnotes prepared by the editors, along with a wide array of annotations.
Supreme Court of the United States: A Bibliography.
United States Supreme Court briefs at the Findlaw website at http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/index.html Cases beginning with the 1999-2000 Term of the Court.
library.law.smu.edu /resguide/supcourt.htm   (1373 words)

  
 The Supreme Court of the United States: Highest Court in the Land, eJournal USA: Issues of Democracy, April 2005
The Supreme Court chooses most of its docket by means of the writ of certiorari; Americans from all walks of life can petition the Court for such a writ.
Personal accounts by four Court officers who help the justices do their jobs: the Clerk of the Court, the Court Marshal, the Reporter of Decisions, and the Public Information Officer.
Journal articles, photographs, and illustrations may be reproduced and translated outside the United States unless they carry explicit copyright restrictions, in which case permission must be sought from the copyright holders noted in the journal.
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 SCOTUSblog - Discussion: Grokster Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Supreme Court left the Betamax defense intact by essentially refusing to say anything about it, although the sniping between the two concurrences suggests that a future battle may be coming.
If you've got a stated intent to help others infringe, and a bunch of "bad" ads, and lots of other evidence of culpable intent, and THEN someone writes to you and encourages you to adopt their filtering technology, and you don't -- well, then you might be liable for inducement.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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 Federal Government -- Sources [Law] [ ALSO! -- U.S. Law ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Participating courts (which are not numerous) are located in several states and are listed on a drop-down list on the main screen.
United States Code (U.S.C.) and Appendices — G.P.O. United States Code (U.S.C.) — H.R. The Cornell/LII version presents the G.P.O. database with a user-friendly interface (and different search function), but the Cornell/LII version does not provide reliable access to the appendices.
Treaties between the United States and other countries, on subjects connected with functions of the Fish and Wildlife Service, are briefly described, and various related sources (such as public laws implementing treaties) are cited, but links to treaty texts and related sources are not provided.
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 Supreme Court information - Legal Links - Legal Research Page - Legal Research, Legal Links, United States Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society - dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court decisions, selected cases by year back to 1961 with some audio clips (Oyez Oyez Oyez, Northwestern University)
SelectedHistoric Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, pre-dating regular release of Court decisions to the Internet (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
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