Ms. LITHWICK: Well it's you know, the Supreme Court heard a pair of cases in 2003, about similar - they are called Megan's Laws, named after Megan Kanka the little girl who was killed by a sex offender who it turned out lived in her neighborhood.

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He just recently became comfortable with his decision to shift his position on gay marriage, and also he said he knew the Supreme Court is considering a pair of gay marriage cases, and reporters would likely ask him for his position.

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a pair of decisions issued today, bolstered the defenses of companies against being haled into a state court against their will.

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Italy argues that because the case is now the subject of international maritime law, it had been decided that the pair will not return to India once the Supreme Court deadline has expired.

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Mr. Dadey and other government transparency advocates said they worry that a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 2010 that paved the way for increased outside spending on the federal level in the form of so-called super PACs made donors more comfortable with doing so on the city level, portending a possible shift this year.

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That led to a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 2003, striking down the school's undergraduate admissions formula, which gave an automatic boost to minority applicants, while upholding its law-school admissions criteria, which administrators said used race as a flexible "plus factor" for certain candidates.

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This time the target is a high-profile one: LeRoy Carhart, whose name will forever be linked with partial-birth abortion--the barely prenatal version of Kermit Gosnell's "snipping"--through a pair of Supreme Court cases: Stenberg v.

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