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Marcia Coyle, based in Washington, covers the U.S. Supreme Court. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MarciaCoyle
February 9, 2015 | Legal Times
"This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court's intended resolution of that question," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his dissent, joined by Justice Antonin Scalia. A high court majority on Monday refused to block same-sex marriage in Alabama.
By Marcia Coyle
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February 8, 2015 | National Law Journal
Like armies mustering their best weapons, supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act once again have turned out at the U.S. Supreme Court to battle over a critical element of that health insurance law.
By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro
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February 4, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
Like armies mustering their best weapons, supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act once again have turned out at the U.S. Supreme Court to battle over a critical element of that health insurance law.
By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro
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February 4, 2015 | Legal Times
A federal appellate court on Wednesday affirmed more than half a million dollars in damages against the United States for its unauthorized use on a postage stamp of the distinctive copyrighted image of The Column in the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall.
By Marcia Coyle
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February 2, 2015 | Legal Times
Justice Elena Kagan on Monday discussed the debate over cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court. "It's a hard issue," Kagan told Chicago Institute of Politics director David Axelrod. "I can give pretty strong arguments on both sides."
By Marcia Coyle
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February 2, 2015 | National Law Journal
The nation's lethal-injection landscape has changed profoundly in the nearly seven years since the U.S. Supreme Court last confronted the issue. And that is reason enough for the justices to take a new look at this execution method, opponents and supporters of the death penalty say.
By Marcia Coyle
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January 27, 2015 | National Law Journal
A long-fought legal battle to prevent the execution of a Georgia death row inmate ended at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when the court, over the dissents of justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, denied Warren Hill's request to delay his execution.
By Marcia Coyle
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January 26, 2015 | National Law Journal
Prosecutors' investigation of innocence claims boosted the number of prisoner exonerations to a record level in 2014, according to the National Registry of Exonerations at the University of Michigan Law School.
By Marcia Coyle
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January 26, 2015 | National Law Journal
History-making arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on same-sex marriage are still more than three months away, but the strategizing among lawyers has already begun.
By Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle
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January 26, 2015 | National Law Journal
Oklahoma's attorney general on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put on hold three scheduled executions until the justices rule in a challenge to the state's lethal-injection protocol or officials find alternative drugs to use.
By Marcia Coyle
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