March 05, 2015
On March 4, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in King v. Burwell, a challenge to the constitutionality of the IRS’s aggressive re-writing of key terms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes known as “Obamacare.” After ninety minutes of argument, it was clear that four justices would
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March 02, 2015
Nine parties filed amicus or “friend of the court” briefs urging the Supreme Court to grant CIR’s petition to review Friedrichs v. CTA and overturn Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Educ., a 1977 case in which the Court allowed states to require all public employees to pay union dues. The amicus briefs
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March 02, 2015
Massachusetts’s highest court upheld Jaime Caetano’s conviction for possession of a stun gun, rejecting her contention that the state’s total ban on stun guns violates the Second Amendment. The court ruled that stun guns are a modern invention not in common possession in 1789, when the Second Amendment was adopted.
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