This team hopes to revolutionize politics; lawyer couple's suits over 'fusion' candidates is before the high court

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Attorney-couple Joel Rogers and Sarah E. Siskind have before the US Supreme Court the case of McKenna v. Twin Cities Area New Party, which will decide whether the First Amendment allows political parties to nominate those whom another political party has already nominated. The Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit had found that Minnesota's fusion ban was an unconstitutional burden on political parties rights to associate and misconception of the goal of the ballot.

Practice, Political parties, Rogers, Joel, Siskind, Sarah E.

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Justices consider protests that get rough

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The US Supreme Court considered in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York the issue of when a protest by the pro-life movement before an abortion clinic was too rough. The trial court placed a 15-foot buffer zone around entrances to the clinic. Sidewalk counseling was permitted inside the zone, but if the person being counseled expressed a lack of interest, the counselor was to stop immediately and move back behind the buffer zone.

Pro-life movement, Abortion services

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