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Filing from April 2010: Supremes Rule on Mojave Memorial Cross Case



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NYT Room for DebateThe Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on when, if ever, it is appropriate to sentence juvenile offenders to life without parole.

“Sadly, even before the sessions on healthcare reform had ended, some liberals were preemptively trying to delegitimize a potential defeat at the court. … [T ]here’s a kind of cynicism, or at least intellectual laziness, in asserting that this is an easy or obvious call—that no justice could possibly strike down the mandate out of honest, reasoned conviction.”Unprecedented

Supreme Court sides with church on decision to fire employee on religious groundsRelated: Supreme Court Backs Church in Landmark Religious Liberty Case, and

“The Supreme Court has sided unanimously with a church sued for firing an employee on religious grounds, issuing an opinion on Wednesday that religious employers can keep the government out of hiring and firing decisions.”

“According to Liberty Counsel, the nonprofit organization representing the university in the suit, the 4th Circuit is the only court so far to label the health care mandate a ‘tax’ and not a ‘penalty.’ The petition they filed with the Supreme Court highlights how the ruling conflicts with those from the 5th, 6th and 11th circuits in other similar cases.”

“A Sacramento atheist’s challenge to the addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, which stirred a legal and political frenzy nearly a decade ago, has quietly expired in the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s Private School Tax Credit Law, stating that state taxpayers are not forced to contribute to the state program which funds scholarships to private religious schools.”