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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on Oct. 23 said Indiana could not enforce a 2011 state law that barred abortion providers – including Planned Parenthood – from receiving any state or federal funds. It would have stripped all Medicaid funding from any health care provider that provides abortion services, among many others. The appellate court barred enforcement of the law, based on Planned Parenthood’s objection that the state defunding law violates a federal Medicaid law that …

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is known as a combative jurist, with a reputation for issuing outspoken opinions and scathing dissents from the bench. On a recent trip to Philadelphia, however, the 26-year veteran of the country’s highest court found there was one foe he couldn’t take on: The city’s notoriously strict parking authority, the PPA. While Scalia was speaking to the local Federalist Society at a swank downtown club, two Supreme Court vehicles were ticketed for parking in a …

The Supreme Court today said that it would hear arguments over whether states can require proof of citizenship from residents when they register to vote. However, the hearings and ruling will probably not come until next year and will have no effect on November’s presidential election. The case stems from a 2004 Arizona law that mandated proof of citizenship as a requirement for people wishing to register to vote in the state, among other provisions. Acceptable documents included a driver’s license …

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed their policies barring LGBT youth and leaders from the organization by kicking a young man in California out of his troop because he came out as gay. Ryan Andresen looked like a model Scout. The high school senior had been a member of the organization since he was six years old, and had climbed the ranks and earned all the merit badges he needed to reach the level of Eagle Scout, the group’s highest …

The United States Supreme Court Wednesday heard opinions about how race is used as a factor in admissions at a Texas university, in a case that has the potential to ban affirmative action from the college application process. In Fisher v. University of Texas, the court will decide whether Abigail Fisher was improperly denied admission to the Austin-based school because she is white. The court has a recent precedent to consider: The justices ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003 …