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		<title>Prop. 8 ruled unconstitutional – next stop, Supreme Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 9th Circuit ruled today that California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, setting the stage for the case to land before the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
“All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/02/07/prop-8-ruled-unconstitutional-%e2%80%93-next-stop-supreme-court/</link>
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		<title>Scalia: Courts flooded with ‘nickel and dime criminal cases’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are problems with the nation’s federal court system. And according to Justice Antonin Scalia, one of those problems is a flood of petty criminal cases – better suited for state courts – that have turned the U.S. Supreme Court into a &#8220;court of criminal appeals.&#8221;
Federal courts are clogged with &#8220;nickel and dime criminal cases,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/02/06/scalia-courts-flooded-with-%e2%80%98nickel-and-dime-criminal-cases%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>O’Connor’s got jokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor cracks political jokes, people laugh.
That was the case last weekend at an exclusive black-tie gathering of Washington’s elite when O’Connor drew the biggest laugh of the night, according to attendees.
At the Alfalfa Club dinner, which drew President Barack Obama, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Justice Anthony Kennedy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/02/03/o%e2%80%99connor%e2%80%99s-got-jokes/</link>
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		<title>Breaking: Kagan was not a straight-A law student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most of you can probably recall (we sure can), law school was a competitive place – and getting a not-so-perfect grade could make you feel as if you were putting your career in jeopardy.
But current law students can take heart! Even if you don’t ace every course, you too can end up on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/02/02/breaking-kagan-was-not-a-straight-a-law-student/</link>
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		<title>Ginsburg on ‘listening tour’ of Egypt, Tunisia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justice Sonia Sotomayor isn’t the only one traveling during the U.S. Supreme Court’s winter break. Her colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is on a “listening tour” of Egypt and Tunisia.
Though few details of the justice’s trip have been released – presumably due to security concerns, according to FindLaw – the justice is traveling with her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/02/01/ginsburg-on-%e2%80%98listening-tour%e2%80%99-of-egypt-tunisia/</link>
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		<title>Sotomayor heads to the islands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court’s winter recess has given Justice Sonia Sotomayor the opportunity to tour some of the country’s island territories.
Fresh from a trip to Guam, which caused her to miss the president’s State of the Union address last week, Sotomayor landed in Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands over the weekend. Sotomayor is attending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/01/30/sotomayor-heads-to-the-islands/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday to the chief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hope Chief Justice John Roberts presides over a piece of birthday cake today. The nation&#8217;s head jurist turns 57.
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		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/01/27/happy-birthday-to-the-chief/</link>
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		<title>Brewer and Obama bicker publicly as immigration battle looms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We already knew the pending Supreme Court showdown between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and the Obama administration over the controversial Arizona immigration law SB 1070 would be explosive. But yesterday we got a glimpse of the bubbling animosity between the parties.
As the Court prepares to hear the debate over whether the state statute directing police [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/01/26/brewer-and-obama-bicker-publicly-as-immigration-battle-looms/</link>
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		<title>Grassley: Author of DOJ recess appointment opinion may lose her job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Chuck Grassley, angered by an opinion issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel finding President Barack Obama’s recent recess appointments legal, took aim at the opinion’s author, suggesting that she won’t be confirmed by the Senate again.
The opinion, authored by Assistant Attorney General Virginia A. Seitz earlier this month, found that Congress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/01/25/grassley-author-of-doj-recess-appointment-opinion-may-lose-her-job/</link>
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		<title>Court won’t hear arguments on Kagan recusal request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court declined to allot oral argument time to a  group challenging Justice Elena Kagan’s participation in the health care  challenge.
In an amicus filing supporting neither party in the  case, the group Freedom Watch claimed that Kagan’s work in the Obama  Administration shows that she “has demonstrated an extra-judicial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2012/01/24/court-won%e2%80%99t-hear-arguments-on-kagan-recusal-request/</link>
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