http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:06:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/mcconnell-to-reid-if-you-go-nuclear-on-nominations-ill-go-nuclear-on-everything-when-im-majority-leader/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/mcconnell-to-reid-if-you-go-nuclear-on-nominations-ill-go-nuclear-on-everything-when-im-majority-leader/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:21:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=167190 Talking Points Memo: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday starkly warned Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) not to eliminate the filibuster on presidential nominations, threatening to end the 60-vote threshold for everything, including bills, if he becomes the majority leader. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/mcconnell-to-reid-if-you-go-nuclear-on-nominations-ill-go-nuclear-on-everything-when-im-majority-leader/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/supreme-court-to-resolve-circuit-split-on-timing-of-appeals/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/supreme-court-to-resolve-circuit-split-on-timing-of-appeals/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=167187 Reuters: The case, Ray Haluch Gravel v. Central Pension Fund, raises the question of whether a federal district court's ruling on the merits that leaves unresolved a request for contractual attorneys' fees is a final decision - and thus appealable - or whether the decision is not appealable until the court has ruled on contractual attorneys' fees. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/supreme-court-to-resolve-circuit-split-on-timing-of-appeals/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/law-school-application-reductions-last-minute-scholarships/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/law-school-application-reductions-last-minute-scholarships/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:50:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=167099 Findlaw: We’ve pontificated a bit about the decrease in applications, applicants, and demand for law school seats. We’ve also speculated on what that means for wannabe-lawyers. Now, we’re getting concrete examples of the fallout from the law school bubble-burst. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/law-school-application-reductions-last-minute-scholarships/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/senate-dems-schedule-hearing-for-d-c-circuit-nominee-patricia-millett/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/senate-dems-schedule-hearing-for-d-c-circuit-nominee-patricia-millett/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:16:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=167078 Talking Points Memo: Senate Democrats moved Monday to schedule a confirmation hearing for Patricia Millett, one of President Obama's three nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/senate-dems-schedule-hearing-for-d-c-circuit-nominee-patricia-millett/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/pa-high-court-rejects-changing-mandatory-retirement-for-judges/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/pa-high-court-rejects-changing-mandatory-retirement-for-judges/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:12:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=167075 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The state Supreme Court Monday found that judges challenging Pennsylvania's mandatory retirement age had no legitimate claim and instead said that the proper way to change it is through constitutional amendment. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/18/pa-high-court-rejects-changing-mandatory-retirement-for-judges/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/what-is-a-fisa-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/what-is-a-fisa-court/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:55:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166955 Findlaw: With NSA surveillance all over the news, you may be wondering: What is FISA? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) regulates the government's conduct of intelligence surveillance inside the United States. The law generally requires the government to seek warrants before surveilling "agents of a foreign power" engaged in espionage or terrorism. In practice, it grants the government wide surveillance authority. Below is a general overview about what FISA is and what the FISA court does. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/what-is-a-fisa-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/reading-the-tea-leaves-on-the-supreme-courts-outstanding-cases/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/reading-the-tea-leaves-on-the-supreme-courts-outstanding-cases/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:45:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166924 Volokh Conspiracy: Predictions are hard–especially about the future. But it looks like Justice Alito probably was assigned the Bartlett opinion, and the Chief Justice and Kennedy are splitting DOMA and Prop 8. Now who has which, and what are they writing? ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/reading-the-tea-leaves-on-the-supreme-courts-outstanding-cases/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/conservatives-likely-to-write-most-remaining-decisions-in-supreme-courts-term/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/conservatives-likely-to-write-most-remaining-decisions-in-supreme-courts-term/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:20:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166918 Washington Post: That’s not an accusation of sloth but a reflection of reality. As the court heads into the crucial final weeks of the term, it is apparent that the great majority of remaining decisions will be authored by the court’s most consistent conservatives. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/conservatives-likely-to-write-most-remaining-decisions-in-supreme-courts-term/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/5th-circuit-judge-accused-of-speaking-of-the-primacy-of-religion-above-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/5th-circuit-judge-accused-of-speaking-of-the-primacy-of-religion-above-law/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:03:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166912 Religion Clause Blog: On Thursday, Alliance for Justice submitted a letter (full text) in support of the misconduct complaint to the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit. It says that there is a long pattern of prejudicial statements and actions by Judge Jones, including her repeatedly speaking of the primacy of religion above law. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/17/5th-circuit-judge-accused-of-speaking-of-the-primacy-of-religion-above-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/14/aclu-obama-worse-than-bush-on-civil-liberty-issues/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/14/aclu-obama-worse-than-bush-on-civil-liberty-issues/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:10:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166797 10TV.com: The associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says the Obama administration is worse than its predecessor on issues of transparency. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/14/aclu-obama-worse-than-bush-on-civil-liberty-issues/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/14/a-note-about-opinion-distribution-at-the-u-s-supreme-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/14/a-note-about-opinion-distribution-at-the-u-s-supreme-court/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:02:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166727 SCOTUS Blog: Trying to predict the author of any given Supreme Court opinion is often a fool’s errand. The pattern by which Justices are assigned opinions isn’t entirely fixed. And the original author can lose the majority to some other member of the Court. That said, across an entire Term, the Chief Justice — who does most of the opinion assignments, because he generally is in the majority — does attempt to distribute the workload evenly. If that pattern holds this Term as well, then one feature of the remaining cases is noteworthy. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/14/a-note-about-opinion-distribution-at-the-u-s-supreme-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/rare-formal-review-ordered-for-federal-judge/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/rare-formal-review-ordered-for-federal-judge/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:09:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166664 Houston Chronicle: Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court formally ordered on Wednesday that a rare public judicial misconduct complaint against 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones be reviewed by officials in a different circuit — one based in the nation's capital. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/rare-formal-review-ordered-for-federal-judge/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/report-campaign-contributions-influence-state-courts/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/report-campaign-contributions-influence-state-courts/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:00:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166661 National Law Journal: A study released on Tuesday by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy identified a "statistically significant" relationship between ballooning campaign contributions by business interest to state supreme court candidates and pro-business decisions by those courts. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/report-campaign-contributions-influence-state-courts/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/corbett-plans-to-pick-stevens-for-pa-high-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/corbett-plans-to-pick-stevens-for-pa-high-court/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:41:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166646 PennLive.com: Gov. Tom Corbett plans to nominate state appeals court Judge Correale F. Stevens to temporarily fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/corbett-plans-to-pick-stevens-for-pa-high-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/judges-new-job-opens-seat-on-d-c-federal-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/judges-new-job-opens-seat-on-d-c-federal-court/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:37:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166643 Blog of the Legal Times: Earlier this week, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. announced he was tapping U.S. District Judge John Bates to lead the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Bates is expected to continue serving as an active judge, but his appointment has created a new seat on Washington’s federal trial court for the White House to fill. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/judges-new-job-opens-seat-on-d-c-federal-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/federal-court-u-s-supreme-court-plaza-ordered-open-to-protests/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/federal-court-u-s-supreme-court-plaza-ordered-open-to-protests/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:49:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166547 SCOTUS Blog: A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday took away part of the Supreme Court’s power to limit picketing, protests, and other demonstrations on the marble plaza at the front of its building on Capitol Hill.  The judge voided all of the sixty-four-year-old law at issue, but then said she meant her ruling to apply only to the plaza even though the law sweeps more broadly than that.   The judge’s opinion is here. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/13/federal-court-u-s-supreme-court-plaza-ordered-open-to-protests/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/justice-oconnors-hypocritical-crusade-against-judicial-elections/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/justice-oconnors-hypocritical-crusade-against-judicial-elections/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:46:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166529 National Review Bench Memos: This is a favorite talking point of George Soros and his allies, who want to replace judicial elections with the trial-lawyer dominated “merit” selection method. The only problem is the empirical evidence doesn’t support Justice O’Connor’s conclusion. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/justice-oconnors-hypocritical-crusade-against-judicial-elections/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/judicial-selection-reform-all-over-the-map/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/judicial-selection-reform-all-over-the-map/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:23:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166432 Wiggin and Dana: States are unlikely to reach consensus, so they should aim to reduce role of money, regardless of selection method. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/judicial-selection-reform-all-over-the-map/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/misconduct-charges-against-5th-circuit-judge-include-her-religious-justifications-for-capital-punishment/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/misconduct-charges-against-5th-circuit-judge-include-her-religious-justifications-for-capital-punishment/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:19:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166429 Religion Clause Blog: As reported by the Austin Chronicle and Courthouse News Service, six civil rights groups and seven individuals, most with special expertise in legal ethics, last week filed judicial misconduct charges against U.S. 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones primarily over comments she made in a lecture titled "Federal Death Penalty Review." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/11/misconduct-charges-against-5th-circuit-judge-include-her-religious-justifications-for-capital-punishment/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/indiana-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-oral-arguments-in-brewington/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/indiana-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-oral-arguments-in-brewington/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:41:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166275 Volokh Conspiracy: After this decision, Brewington posted various items online “discussing Judge Humphrey, in which he described the judge as ‘corrupt,’ and accused him of engaging in ‘unethical/illegal behavior.’ He also repeatedly referred to the judge as a child abuser.” Brewington was then prosecuted for, among other things, violating Indiana Code § 35-45-2-1, which (in relevant part) criminalizes as “intimidation” . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/indiana-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-oral-arguments-in-brewington/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/former-supreme-court-justice-stevens-predicts-court-will-overturn-defense-of-marriage-act/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/former-supreme-court-justice-stevens-predicts-court-will-overturn-defense-of-marriage-act/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:13:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166265 MPR: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens shares his views on controversial court decisions and the inner workings of the court, in a candid interview at the JFK Library in Boston May 20, 2013. Stevens comments on Bush v. Gore, Citizens United, affirmative action and same-sex marriage. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/former-supreme-court-justice-stevens-predicts-court-will-overturn-defense-of-marriage-act/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/what-happened-to-eric-holder/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/what-happened-to-eric-holder/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:09:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166262 National Journal: He was a Reagan-appointed judge and a Clinton-appointed prosecutor respected by both sides. Then it all fell apart. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/what-happened-to-eric-holder/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/three-questions-for-clarence-thomas-cnn/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/three-questions-for-clarence-thomas-cnn/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:59:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166256 CNN: There may seem to be a contradiction between the Clarence Thomas who was the angry campus radical in the 1960s and the conservative hero who sits on the Supreme Court today. But some legal observers say Thomas sees himself as a "prophetic civil rights leader" who is still fighting for the same cause -- a colorblind America. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/three-questions-for-clarence-thomas-cnn/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/culture-war-creates-perils-for-supreme-court-justices-juan-williams-at-the-hill/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/culture-war-creates-perils-for-supreme-court-justices-juan-williams-at-the-hill/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:55:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166248 The Hill: It is difficult to see how the Chief Justice arrives at such a consensus with these four culture war cases. It is more likely the decisions will give way to even more heated emotions, including anger and a further erosion of trust in yet another major American institution. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/culture-war-creates-perils-for-supreme-court-justices-juan-williams-at-the-hill/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/scotus-blog-faqs-opinion-announcement-days/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/scotus-blog-faqs-opinion-announcement-days/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:41:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166247 SCOTUS Blog: We have put together a list of some of the commonly asked questions about opinion announcements that we have gotten during recent live blogs, along with our responses, but please let us know during the live blog if you have a question that you don’t see answered here. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/scotus-blog-faqs-opinion-announcement-days/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/exhibit-a-for-a-major-shift-justices-gay-clerks-nyt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/exhibit-a-for-a-major-shift-justices-gay-clerks-nyt/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:34:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166243 NY Times: Although no comprehensive record of gay Supreme Court law clerks exists, Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price — authors of “Courting Justice,” a 2001 history of gay rights cases at the court — identified 18 gay men and four lesbians who had been clerks. Ms. Murdoch and Ms. Price also found that the justice most likely to hire gay clerks was the one who said he had never met a homosexual. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/exhibit-a-for-a-major-shift-justices-gay-clerks-nyt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/todays-supreme-court-order-list-9/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/todays-supreme-court-order-list-9/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:51:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166237 here. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/10/todays-supreme-court-order-list-9/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/a-disturbing-story-about-judge-edith-jones-gerard-bradley-at-nro/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/a-disturbing-story-about-judge-edith-jones-gerard-bradley-at-nro/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:03:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166222 NRO: They say that Jones said something like “Death penalties serve the condemned by forcing them to face God.” Well, of course they do — if there is indeed a God. I believe there is, and until I read this story, I thought Judge Jones had a “civil right” to believe there is, too. Most religions maintain that after death there is some sort of divine judgment. Surely Christianity maintains that it is so. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/a-disturbing-story-about-judge-edith-jones-gerard-bradley-at-nro/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/winners-and-losers-of-the-great-law-school-application-reduction/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/winners-and-losers-of-the-great-law-school-application-reduction/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:42:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166213 Above the Law: Chaos is a ladder. And right now, the legal education business is chaotic. Prospective law students are starting to wise up to the law school game. Applications have been dropping as law schools struggle to explain how it makes sense to go deep into debt just to participate in a very challenging job market. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/winners-and-losers-of-the-great-law-school-application-reduction/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/sotomayor-reports-1-9-million-in-income-from-royalties/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/sotomayor-reports-1-9-million-in-income-from-royalties/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:38:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166164 Blog of the Legal Times: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's bestselling memoir about growing up in poverty has earned her more than $3 million, including $1.9 million in advances on royalties she received last year. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/sotomayor-reports-1-9-million-in-income-from-royalties/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/abortion-emerges-as-an-issue-in-filibuster-fight/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/abortion-emerges-as-an-issue-in-filibuster-fight/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:11:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166155 Politico: Changing the rules to make it easier to confirm President Barack Obama’s executive branch or judicial appointments may help the White House in the short term, and railing against Republican filibusters plays well with the Democratic base. But privately, that base and abortion rights supporters are concerned how a future GOP president and Senate could take advantage of the new setup. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/abortion-emerges-as-an-issue-in-filibuster-fight/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/former-mass-chief-justice-on-life-liberty-and-gay-marriage-npr/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/former-mass-chief-justice-on-life-liberty-and-gay-marriage-npr/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:45:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=166065 NPR: I'm curious, when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?" Scalia asked. "When did the law become this?" Marshall says for her, the answer was clear: "When the states started giving huge benefits and privileges to one section of the population. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/07/former-mass-chief-justice-on-life-liberty-and-gay-marriage-npr/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/06/okla-supremes-throw-out-lawsuit-reform-measure-as-single-subject-violation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/06/okla-supremes-throw-out-lawsuit-reform-measure-as-single-subject-violation/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:18:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=165972 How Appealing links to the ruling and media reports. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/06/okla-supremes-throw-out-lawsuit-reform-measure-as-single-subject-violation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/05/ex-profs-phoenix-values-profits-over-students-faculty/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/05/ex-profs-phoenix-values-profits-over-students-faculty/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:32:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=165862 National Law Journal: Two former tenured professors have sued the Phoenix School of Law and the company that owns it, claiming that they were improperly fired after raising concerns about what they called a drive for profits at the expense of students and faculty. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/05/ex-profs-phoenix-values-profits-over-students-faculty/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/04/scalia-dissents-on-scotus-decision-upholding-dna-samples-of-arrested/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/04/scalia-dissents-on-scotus-decision-upholding-dna-samples-of-arrested/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:43:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=165607 Breitbart: Constitutional protections do not forbid police from taking DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes, according to the Supreme Court in its 5-4 decision Monday in Maryland v. King. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/06/04/scalia-dissents-on-scotus-decision-upholding-dna-samples-of-arrested/feed/ 0