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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Courts - "Justices Decline to Hear Some 2,000 Cases "
Adam Liptak of the NY Times today details some of the cases refused cert yesterday by the SCOTUS. His column begins:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear appeals concerning the Pledge of Allegiance, the Confederate flag and license plates bearing the words “Choose Life.”In those and some 2,000 other cases that accumulated during the court’s summer break, the court let stand rulings from lower courts without comment. * * *
For at least the fifth time, the Supreme Court declined to wade into the heavily litigated question of whether state motor vehicles departments may or must offer specialty license plates that say “Choose Life.” In declining to hear Choose Life Illinois v. White, No. 08-1283, the court let stand a decision that Illinois was not required to offer “Choose Life” plates along with some 60 other styles because it had “excluded the entire subject of abortion from its specialty plate program” and so was not taking sides in the abortion debate.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 6, 2009 09:34 AM
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