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A Preview of the Supreme Court Term

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While the Court has announced the results of its conference of this past Monday, the Court's term begins next Monday, October 6 -- the first Monday in October -- when three cases will be argued. At Stateline, John Gramlich provides a preview of the term, "At high court, states' authority in question."The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (Oct. 6) begins a new term that so far lacks the controversy of last term?s politically explosive cases on gun control, the death penalty and voter-identification laws, but that still is grabbing the attention of states. Of top concern to states ? and to the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries ? are a pair of cases testing whether federal law trumps state consumer-protection policies that let residents sue cigarette and drug makers over the way their goods are described...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).