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The Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2016

Every year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of how the incoming freshmen class views the world.
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Supreme Court rules that police can ad lib Miranda warnings

Police officers do not have to use exact wording when delivering Miranda warnings to criminal suspects, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 7-to-2 decision.
Supreme Court: Campaign-finance limits violate free speech

The Supreme Court campaign finance ruling on Thursday means corporations can spend freely on political ads leading up to elections. The Thursday decision invalidates a part of 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law that sought to limit corporate influence.
A Supreme Court blow to anti-death penalty icon Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed an appeals court ruling that would have given Mumia Abu-Jamal a chance to avoid the dealth penalty. Some opponents of capital punishment have championed Abu-Jamal's case.
Supreme Court blocks plans to broadcast Prop. 8 trial

The Supreme Court said that the trial judge in the Prop. 8 case attempted change the federal rules that restrict broadcasts of trials. The case deals with California’s gay-marriage ban.
Supreme Court justices appear split on US sex offender law

The 2006 law permits the US government to hold convicted sex offenders even after they've served their sentences. Hearing arguments Tuesday, the Supreme Court justices sparred over whether Congress has exceeded its authority.
Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Illinois forfeiture law

The Supreme Court dismissed a case pitting innocent property owners against Chicago police and prosecutors who held seized autos and other property for years under a controversial Illinois forfeiture act.
Supreme Court hears arguments in Florida beach property case

Florida took up a seven-mile-long beach restoration project, and some beach property owners say it violates their rights. On Wednesday, a lawyer for waterfront landowners encountered both skepticism and support at the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court appears split on tackling rogue prosecutors

The Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by two Iowa men who spent 25 in prison after prosecutors allegedly fabricated evidence against them. Justices seemed divided on the issue of how much immunity prosecutors should enjoy.
Supreme Court questions animal cruelty law

Are dog-fighting videos free speech? Supreme Court justices Tuesday heard a case challenging a federal law covering depictions of animal cruelty.
Supreme Court justices question campaign finance law

At a hearing Wednesday on 'Hillary: The Movie,' conservative justices repeatedly asked whether limits on corporate contributions in federal elections are too broad and amount to censorship of free speech.
Sotomayor roundup: How Republicans will vote

Six GOP senators have announced their intentions ahead of Tuesday's Judiciary Committee vote on the Supreme Court nominee.
Supreme Court to convicts: No constitutional right to DNA testing

Conservative majority opinion limits prisoners’ chances to prove innocence.
Court ruling could protect top Bush officials from terror lawsuits

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a suit holding FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft responsible for wrongful detention of Muslims after 9/11.
What another woman would bring to Supreme Court

Expectations are high that Obama will nominate a woman. Though female jurisprudence is not much different from that of male judges, women tend to be more pro-women's rights and to tilt more toward plaintiffs in sex-discrimination cases.
Supreme Court narrows identify-theft law in immigration case

To prove aggravated identify theft – which brings a mandatory two years in jail – prosecutors must show defendants knew their fake IDs belonged to a real person.
Classic review: The Nine

Jeffrey Toobin examines the nine personalities that sit on the nation's highest court.
Supreme Court disappoints a bumbling bank robber

His mandatory sentence for a gun crime applies, justices find, though the weapon discharged by accident.
Supreme Court backs FCC crackdown on swearing on television

In a 5-to-4 ruling, the top court upheld the regulator's 2004 decision to hold broadcasters liable for the occasional expletive.
Top court clips police authority to search cars

Supreme Court limits warrantless police searches to instances when an officer or evidence is in danger.
Supreme Court hears case of strip-searched schoolgirl

It heard arguments Tuesday on whether Arizona school officials violated Fourth Amendment privacy rights in strip-searching a 13-year-old girl.
Federal judges take their own case to court – for more pay

The Constitution bars Congress from reducing a judge’s pay. But Congress has excluded judges from receiving promised inflation adjustments in six of the past 16 years.
How long can executions be delayed?

The Supreme Court denied the appeal of a Florida inmate on death row for 32 years.
High court orders a new look at one man's quest for US asylum

An Eritrean who worked at a prison where torture occurred gets another chance to live in America.
US Justice Department to bring criminal charges against 'enemy combatant'

The move places the last remaining "enemy combatant" in the US before a civilian court instead of a military tribunal.
Supreme Court rules smokers can sue over 'light' cigarette claims

The decision will make it easier for local residents to recover damages from national firms, consumer groups say.