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My fears turned out to be unfounded, of course. Since the handover 10 years ago, I've been able to pursue my reading list free from incarceration. People who know how aggressively my newspaper, Apple Daily, has criticized Hong Kong and mainland authorities might be surprised to hear me say...
By a 5 to 4 vote, the court struck down the districts' plans. Three justices joined Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion saying that, in schools not intentionally segregated, the desire for racial balance isn't enough to trump the Constitution's general ban on treating people differently because of their...
That brings up an important point. As the court's term draws to a close, it becomes increasingly clear that Roberts and Alito - Bush's two selections for the court - are far different from Scalia and Thomas. As Cass Sunstein, the constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, describes...
Monday's 5-to-4 ruling is the latest to limit the right of students to speak freely since the Court proclaimed in 1969 that they do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate." The court says schools may punish "student speech celebrating drug...
Under the Greek constitution, the country's 10,000 miles of jagged coastline - among the longest in the world - must be freely accessible to the public. But today, that principle is widely ignored. Existing legislation, say legal experts, allows the state to manage the property, providing legal loopholes for seaside...