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How Appealing: "Roberts speaks out on drunk driving case"
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apparently it's a fool-me-twice world in VA: http://bit.ly/11YhKq 30 days ago |
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RT @washingtonpost: Roberts: Decision could give drunk drivers 'one free swerve' http://bit.ly/4kLHnq #scotus (you have to be kidding) 10/20/2009 |
"Roberts speaks out on drunk driving case"
How Appealing —
"Roberts speaks out on drunk driving case": Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press has this report.
Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined "Roberts: Decision could give drunk drivers 'one free swerve.'"
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined "Supreme Court upholds ban on traffic stops based on a caller's tip; Justices uphold ruling in a drunk driving case that officers must see a suspicious act before stopping a vehicle; Chief Justice Roberts dissents, saying that will give drunk drivers ...
Wednesday Round-up
SCOTUSblog —
... The Washington Post reports on the Chief Justice’s dissent from the denial of cert. yesterday in Virginia v. Harris, in which the Virginia Supreme Court had held that a stop based solely on an anonymous tip that the driver was intoxicated violated the Fourth Amendment. Orin Kerr at ...
Wednesday Round-up
SCOTUSblog —
... criticizes the Supreme Court’s decision last week to deny certiorari in Virginia v. Harris, in which the Virginia Supreme Court had held that a traffic stop based solely on an anonymous tip violated the Fourth Amendment. The Post questions both the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case and the Virginia ruling itself, citing Chief Justice Roberts’s ...
Laundry and Human Rights
The Monkey Cage —
At a time when decisions by the US Supreme Court to deny certiorari elicit some controversy, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) provides a useful reminder of what could happen to review courts that lack the authority to pick and choose their cases. The ECtHR allows about 800 million citizens from 47 countries to file appeals that their government has violated a right protected by the European Convention on Human Rights and that their domestic legal system has failed to rectify said violation. By most standards, the ECtHR has been an enormous success. It has ...
