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reports and documents, matters relating to national security and sovereignty take a prominent place. The SPC reiterates that its foreign-related adjudication work serves the domestic and external greater situations. This section highlights two areas of service in protection of national security and ...
Justice Wang Shumei (previously the head of the #4 Civil Division) highlighted that this interpretation was needed because the previous provisions on the application of international treaties in the General Principles of Civil Law were abolished when the Civil Code was promulgated, leaving the rules ...
Prelogar told Kavanaugh that there's protection for manufacturers who seek to comply with the law in good faith. "ATF is not trying to hide the ball here. The point of the agency is not a game of gotcha to try to criminally prosecute people. There was a very serious public safety threa...
Alabama's congressional map, which the high court found likely violated the Voting Rights Act, the court battle involving the single district in South Carolina centers around claims that race was improperly used during the map-drawing process in violation of the Constitution's Equal Protectio...
The 5-4 ruling upheld an injunction barring prosecutors from filing criminal cases under theChild Online Protection Act, or COPA, until a full trial takes place. COPA restricts the use of sexually explicit material deemed "harmful to minors" on commercial Web sites. Violation of the law can re...
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"This is a major blow to the interpretation that anti-trans forces are looking to advance," Strangio said. "You kind of forget that positive, good things can happen sometimes." The court said Title VII also covers sexual orientation and transgender status, upholding lower court rulings th...
The lawyers also argued that the UNC violated the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law, which covers state universities. Lower US courts had ruled in favor of the schools, finding that that the programs used race in a sufficiently limited way to fulfill a compelling ...
In nearly all of the trials of January 6 defendants who faced obstruction counts, the Justice Department showed evidence to the juries of the electoral vote boxes being removed from the Senate floor — potentially a prosecutorial move that will provide a protection of some of the prosecutions. ...