Justices Refuse to Review Inmate Voting Rights
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday  declined to decide a legal dispute over whether states can  prevent convicted felons from voting.
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The Supreme Court yesterday refused a request from the New York Times to stop federal prosecutors from examining the telephone records of two of its reporters, part of a grand jury probe of an alleged leak in a terrorism-funding investigation.
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PHOENIX, Sept. 11 -- A federal judge declined Monday to block a law that requires Arizona voters to present identification before casting a ballot.
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The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a challenge Monday to the state's voter ID law, but sidestepped a decision on the law's validity by ruling that the plaintiff didn't have the legal standing to challenge the law.
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The US Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal by a teacher jailed for 200 years for possessing child porn.
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In upholding a lower court&#39;s ruling, the Supreme Court rejected arguments that the Do Not Call list violates telemarketers&#39; First Amendment rights.
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The La. Supreme Court yesterday declined legal challenges to keep a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriages and civil unions off the Sept. 18 ballot, leaving open the possibility of challenging the amendment if it passes.
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The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday it does not have authority to prevent a Nov. 2 vote on a proposed Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.
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The US Supreme Court today refused to accept a challenge to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that allowed same-sex marriages to begin in that state last year.
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The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to modify or overturn a lower court's ruling allowing Mary Winkler, convicted of killing her minister husband, visitation rights with the couple's three daughters.
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A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana.
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A federal judge ignored a Justice Department argument Tuesday and ruled that Michigan must count provisional ballots cast by voters who show up at the wrong polling precincts but are in the right city, township or village.
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A judge declined to rule Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by Republican voters challenging a decision that allows Iowans to cast provisional ballots outside of their home precincts. He said the challenge was premature.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments that an Indiana law prevented voters from having their ballots counted.
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The US Supreme Court refused for a second time yesterday to get pulled into the politically charged fight over gay marriage in Massachusetts, rejecting an appeal from some state
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to speed up consideration of a challenge to the government's plans to try foreign terror suspects before military tribunals.
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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case that ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to try drugs that have not received federal approval.