WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. by visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, giving the president a major victory on a signature and controversial policy. In the court’s first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the […]
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Supreme Court seems to lean toward George Isaacson's arguments against online sales tax collection
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sounded concerned Tuesday about doing away with a rule that has meant consumers don’t get charged sales tax on some online purchases. The justices heard arguments in a case that deals with businesses’ collection of sales tax on online purchases. Right now, under a decades-old Supreme Court rule, if […]
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Supreme Court strikes down law authorizing deportations for violent crimes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced. The court’s 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns a […]
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Lewiston lawyer to argue second case before U.S. Supreme Court
[UPDATE:Supreme Court seems to lean toward George Isaacson’s arguments against online sales tax] LEWISTON — A local lawyer is scheduled to argue Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court one of the most significant state tax cases of the past quarter-century, according to state tax practitioners. George Isaacson, a senior partner of Brann & Isaacson, represents […]
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Supreme Court will not hear Lewiston pastor's lawsuit on abortion protest
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a Lewiston pastor who challenged a Maine law’s noise limit that was used to restrict his anti-abortion protest outside Planned Parenthood’s Portland clinic in 2015. The decision by the nation’s highest court not to hear arguments in the case effectively affirms the constitutionality of the noise limit […]
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Retired Supreme Court justice urges repeal of Second Amendment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment to allow for significant gun control legislation. The 97-year-old Stevens says in an essay on The New York Times website that repeal would weaken the National Rifle Association’s ability to “block constructive gun control legislation.” Stevens […]
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Supreme Court to hear if labor unions can collect fees from non-members
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor. All eyes will be on Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday when the court takes up a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose […]
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Maine court clarifies requirements for distracted driving finding
PORTLAND (AP) — Law enforcement officials don’t have to show what specifically distracted a driver before a fatal chain-reaction crash, the state supreme court ruled, providing important guidance to law enforcement at a time when distracted drivers are a major concern. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that lawmakers contemplated a wide variety of activities […]
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U.S. Supreme Court allows strict enforcement of Donald Trump's travel ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is granting the Trump administration’s request to more strictly enforce its ban on refugees, at least until a federal appeals court weighs in. But the justices are leaving in place a lower court order that makes it easier for travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to enter the United […]
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Supreme Court to take case of Colorado baker who wouldn't sell wedding cake to gay couple
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider next term whether a Denver baker unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to sell them a wedding cake. Lower courts had ruled that Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had violated Colorado’s public accommodations law, which prohibits refusing service to customers […]