Supreme Court won't hear case over Hawaii's rules for handguns Supreme Court turns away case over Boston high school admissions criteria More Melissa Quinn Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and...
A jury might consider the difference between merely mentioning the theft to neighbors or to a police investigator during an on- scene interview, on one hand, and going to the police station to make a formal report, on the other, as bearing significantly on the truth of the claim. Defendant...
nearly as long. See Arizona v. Gant, 556 U. S. 332, 350 (2009) (noting the exception’s “checkered his-tory”). That debate has focused on the extent to which officers may search property found on or near the arrestee. Three related precedents set forth the rules governing such ...
A federal district court in 2016 sided with the two groups in the dispute and blocked the California attorney general from requiring AFPF and Thomas More to disclose their largest donors. But a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court's decision th...
The California Supreme Court rejected San Francisco’s appeal of a lower court ruling, limiting the city’s ability regulate handguns as approved by voters in 2005. Sports in 2008 San Francisco officials changed the course of the Beijing Olympic torch at the last minute to avoid most protestors...
The Gun Control Act of 1968 updated verbiage on destructive devices to include things like bombs, mines, and grenades, and added the definition for machine guns. The bill also banned guns with no sporting purpose; mandated an age restriction of 21 and older for the purchase of handguns; ...
The case involves a section of the law that preempts states from setting their own emissions standards for new vehicles. But the act exempts any state that had rules in place before March 1966, just after the law was amended to regulate automobile emissions, that are "at least as...
The case involves a section of the law that preempts states from setting their own emissions standards for new vehicles. But the act exempts any state that had rules in place before March 1966, just after the law was amended to regulate automobile emissions, that are "at least as protective...