Corporate Controlled Supreme Court fucks America yet again

A business-friendly Supreme Court, with encouragement from the Bush administration, has strengthened the hand of companies wanting to turn away lawsuits by investors who claim they lost money because of corporate misconduct.
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Since 2000, investors filing federal class-action lawsuits alleging securities fraud have won $42 billion in damages from the business community, according to research by the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse. The Stanford study also found that in the past two years the number of class-action lawsuits filed by investors has declined.

"Clearly the environment now is difficult because many conservative judges have a negative view philosophically of class-action lawsuits," said Steven J. Toll, a plaintiffs attorney in Washington, D.C. "I hope for the benefit of investors that the pendulum shifts back again to a more rational and objective review of these cases."

One of the business community's criticisms of the court under Chief Justice William Rehnquist was that the justices did not have the interest or the appetite to take on contentious business issues. These kinds of cases have become regular fixtures on the court's docket under Chief Justice John Roberts, whose career as a private attorney had him often representing business interests before the Supreme Court.

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Color of Law

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While Bush tells us to fear an "Axis of Evil," the greatest threat to America comes from within, from our government—the executive branch and the Supreme Court. The problems we are facing are not going away, they just get worse, and Thomas has a decisive role in that process.
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Dimocrap and Repiglikkkan Senatorial Scum who voted to Confirm Grand Wizard and Chief Injustice John Roberts

Nomination Description: John G. Roberts, Jr., of Maryland, to be Chief Justice of the United States
Vote Counts: YEAs 78
NAYs 22

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---78
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Baucus (D-MT0
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)!!!!!!!!!
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

Pictured: The Supreme Court of the United States of Amerikkka

A Message of Hope and Deliverance to white Christian America from the supreme court

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Alito Champions Business Causes in First Full High-Court Term

A common thread in those rulings was an unwillingness to let cases go before a jury, said Jeffrey Robert White, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Litigation, a Washington group that challenges laws it believes impede access to justice. White filed a brief at the court on behalf of a trial-lawyer trade group in the shareholder case.

The court is saying, ``we'll trust the executive branch, we'll trust Congress a little bit, but we really don't trust the American people to do what's right when they sit in the jury box,'' White said.

Joke of a Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Bush Constitutional Violations

By a 5-4 vote, the high court's conservative majority sided with the Bush administration by ruling that a Wisconsin group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation and three of its members had no legal right to bring the lawsuit in the first place. The ruling only addressed whether taxpayers can bring such challenges, not whether the program itself violated the U.S. Constitution's requirement on the separation of church and state. The majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, who was appointed to the high court by President George W. Bush, overturned a lower-court ruling that allowed the lawsuit to proceed.

Supreme Court Assaults Home Health Care Workers

The court unanimously upheld a 1975 regulation from the U.S. Department of Labor that such workers are excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act's wage and overtime provisions. There currently are about 1 million such workers nationwide.

Right Wing Court Says Insurance Companies can Fuck Consumers Over