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The ACLU of Virginia yesterday submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to deny the State Board of Elections’ request for review of the Fourth Circuit’s decision holding that Virginia may not prohibit nonresidents from circulating ballot petitions for third-party presidential candidates.
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The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision today that invalidated patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation on behalf of researchers, genetic counselors, patients, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and medical professional associations representing 150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals.
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In a win for Virginia’s taxpayers, today the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling that upholds the constitutionality of Virginia’s citizenship limitation in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which allows only residents of the commonwealth and news organizations that serve Virginians to utilize FOIA.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear a challenge to the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law targeting same-sex couples for discriminatory treatment under federal law.
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The ACLU of Virginia today asked the U.S Supreme Court to review a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that allows restrictions on alcohol-related advertising in college publications in Virginia. In April, on a divided vote, the Fourth Circuit upheld the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board’s prohibition on the advertising of beer, wine,…
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The Supreme Court voted 5-4 Wednesday to rule that public-sector workers who are represented by unions can’t be required to pay union dues.
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Access to mifepristone, an abortion medication approved by the FDA more than 20 years ago, has been protected by the Supreme Court.
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Want to know how dumb our politics is? The U.S. Senate voted 51-39 on Wednesday in favor of the Right to Contraception Act, but because of the arcane filibuster rule, you need to get 60 votes, not just a majority.
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The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism.
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The EMTALA requires hospitals to provide all necessary stabilizing treatments to patients who present to their emergency rooms.
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