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March 20, 2013 22:31
SEOUL, March 21 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye on Thursday named a Constitutional Court justice as chief of the top court and a business administration professor as head of the Small and Medium Business Administration (SMBA), her spokesman said. Park Han-cheol, who has served as a member of the court's nine-member bench since 2011, was tapped to lead the court, while Han Jung-wha, dean of Seoul's Hanyang University Business School, was named to head the government body in charge of small and medium enterprises, presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung said in a press briefing.

RPT-ANALYSIS-In US voting-rights case, liberal justices pitch to Kennedy

February 28, 2013 08:30
(Repeats to additional subscribers) By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Barely a minute into a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, liberal justices began a strategic barrage of questions that came down to this: Why should a time-honored plank of the 1965 Voting Rights Act be invalidated in a case from Alabama with its history of racial discrimination?

ANALYSIS-In US voting-rights case, liberal justices pitch to Kennedy

February 28, 2013 02:30
By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Barely a minute into a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, liberal justices began a strategic barrage of questions that came down to this: Why should a time-honored plank of the 1965 Voting Rights Act be invalidated in a case from Alabama with its history of racial discrimination?

US Supreme Court takes up voting rights law

February 27, 2013 16:46
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to overturn, at least in part, a voting rights law that guards against racial discrimination in US states with a segregationist past. At issue is the 1965 law's Section 5, which requires nine mainly southern states and local governments in seven other states to obtain Justice Department approval for any changes in their electoral codes.

UPDATE 2-Conservatives on U.S. high court cast doubt on voting law

February 27, 2013 13:45
* Alabama county challenges need for key part of 1965 law * Liberals mount spirited defense of law * Justices Scalia and Kagan clash on the bench * Ruling expected by end of June (Adds quotes, details) By Lawrence Hurley

Conservatives on U.S. high court cast doubt on voting law

February 27, 2013 13:00
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court expressed strong doubts about the validity of a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signaling that there could be a majority to strike down the heart of the landmark law. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's swing vote on racial issues, said that "times change" when weighing the provision that requires strict oversight of election laws in nine mainly Southern states.

UPDATE 2-U.S. justice denounces prosecutor's racially charged question

February 25, 2013 18:15
* Sotomayor says question was "pernicious" * Supreme Court declines to hear case (Adds comment from U.S. attorney's office and defendant's lawyer) By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas.

U.S. justice laments prosecutor's racially charged question

February 25, 2013 13:16
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas. The justice, appointed to the court by President Barack Obama in 2009, took the relatively unusual step of writing a statement to accompany the nine-member Supreme Court's announcement that it would not take up a criminal case.

UPDATE 1-U.S. top court won't extend 2010 immigration ruling

February 20, 2013 15:00
* 7-2 ruling bars certain claims * Defeat for immigrants who entered guilty pleas (Adds reaction from lawyers) By Lawrence Hurley and Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to apply retroactively a 2010 ruling that requires lawyers to tell immigrant clients that they can be deported if they plead guilty to certain crimes.

U.S. top court limits police detentions far from crime scene

February 19, 2013 18:15
* No probable cause to detain man a mile away * 6-3 ruling did not follow typical ideological divide By Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for police to detain people far away from a suspected crime scene when the only justification for the detention is to make it safer and easier to conduct a search of the scene.
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