Kansas immigrant tuition ruling upheld
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A group of students paying out-of-state tuition to attend college in Kansas cannot challenge a state law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition, a federal appeals court ruled.
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that federal taxpayers cannot challenge the constitutionality of White House efforts to help religious groups obtain government funding for their social programs, handing a victory to President Bush's faith-based initiatives program.
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A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
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Canada's Supreme Court rejects a law allowing the detention and deportation of foreign-born terror suspects.
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The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday threw out the state's 1994 death penalty law, ruling that it was unfair because it gave prosecutors an advantage when jurors were asked to balance aggravating and mitigating circumstances at sentencing.
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A U.S. federal judge on Thursday upheld a government decision to refuse a prominent Swiss Muslim entry into the United States, saying the question of denying visas was best left to the authorities.
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By Thomas Korosec, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 6--DALLAS -- A federal judge extended an order Tuesday preventing the suburb of Farmers Branch from enforcing a voter-approved ordinance barring apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up the issue of school choice in Maine, where a state law bars the use of public funds to send students to private religious schools.
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The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that legal immigrants cannot be deported when convicted of relatively minor drug-possession offenses, a decision likely to affect thousands of people.
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The United States government has  not discriminated against native Hawaiians by declining to  recognize them as an American Indian tribe, a U.S. federal  appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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A prominent European Muslim scholar has  been prevented from taking up a post at Notre Dame University  in Indiana after U.S. authorities revoked his visa, the  university said on Tuesday.
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A Florida law that lets students from failing public schools attend private religious schools at taxpayers' expense is unconstitutional, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
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An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the part of a tough anti-terrorism law signed by President George W. Bush that took away the right of Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before U.S. federal judges.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school diversity plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.
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A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Wednesday by foreign-born terror suspects challenging their detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling did not provide them the legal basis to win their freedom.
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A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the business licenses of those that do.
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In what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind, a judge on Wednesday upheld the federal law letting states ban same-sex marriages, dismissing a lawsuit by two women seeking to have their Massachusetts marriage recognized here.