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In Amnesty America v. Town of West Hartford, anti-abortion protestors argued that the police had used excessive force against them. A lower court had ruled that the police had not used excessive force. She ruled that “a reasonable jury could find that the officers gratuitously inflicted pain in a manner that was not a reasonable…

Interestingly, in the one abortion-related case she ruled on as a court of appeals judge, Sonia Sotomayor ruled against the pro-choice group. She rejected arguments from pro-choice advocates that their Constitutional rights were being restrained by the Bush’s administration’s policy of limiting family planning money to overseas non-profit groups. This obviously says nothing about how…

First published May 5, 2009 From a raw political point of view, it’s hard to top Sonia Sotomayor to be Obama’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. She’s Hispanic, a key group that Obama won over and must keep. She’s a woman and, though liberal, was appointed by a Republican. I haven’t been able to…

I’m no expert on the Nemenhah Band, the spiritual group to which Colleen Hauser belongs and whose teachings she cites in refusing chemotherapy for her cancer-stricken son. But poking around their website, it seems to me the group actually gives members some flexibility in deciding whether to accept chemotherapy or non-natural treatments.. Article 15 of…
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