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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

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.” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” As the United States Supreme Court ruled in National Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People v. New Hampshire , 315 U.S.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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A new case on public funding and religious education. Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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Justices won’t intervene in dispute over transgender rights and bathrooms

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Grimm , leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that a Virginia school district violated federal law when it barred students from using the restrooms that align with their gender identities. corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all.