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Adam Liptak

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November 2003: Journalist.

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Role	Name	Type	Last Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present)	New York Times	Source	Dec 9, 2012

Articles and Resources

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Date	Fairness.com Resource	Read it at:
Dec 09, 2012	Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive QUOTE: The speed with which the court is moving has some gay rights advocates bracing for a split decision. The court could strike down the federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, saying that the meaning of marriage is a matter for the states to decide. At the same time, it could reject the idea that the Constitution requires states to allow same-sex marriage, saying that the meaning of marriage is a matter for the states to decide....However the court rules in the California case, its very decision to consider it is a change from the caution of an earlier era.	New York Times
Mar 19, 2012	At Heart of Health Law Clash, a 1942 Case of a Farmer’s Wheat QUOTE: Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him how much wheat he could grow on his family farm and made him pay a penalty for every extra bushel. The 1942 decision against him, Wickard v. Filburn, is the basis for the Supreme Court’s modern understanding of the scope of federal power.	New York Times
Feb 21, 2012	Justices Take Up Race as a Factor in College Entry QUOTE: In a 2003 decision that the majority said it expected would last for 25 years, the Supreme Court allowed public colleges and universities to take account of race in admission decisions...By agreeing to hear a major case involving race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, the court thrust affirmative action back into the public and political discourse after years in which it had mostly faded from view.	New York Times
Jan 23, 2012	Justices Say GPS Tracker Violated Privacy Rights QUOTE: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. A set of overlapping opinions in the case collectively suggested that a majority of the justices are prepared to apply broad privacy principles to bring the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches into the digital age...	New York Times
Dec 19, 2011	Among Legal Ranks, Shrugs for Gingrich’s Tough Talk QUOTE: Many of Mr. Gingrich’s proposals would replace the judicial independence generally thought to be a defining feature of the federal system with aspects of the political accountability associated with state judicial elections.	New York Times
Jul 25, 2011	Question of Birth Becomes One of President’s Power QUOTE: In 2002, [Congress] directed the State Department to “record the place of birth as Israel” in passports of American children born in Jerusalem if their parents ask. President George W. Bush signed that bill...But Mr. Bush also said he would not obey it.	New York Times
Jul 24, 2011	The 14th Amendment, the Debt Ceiling and a Way Out QUOTE: former President Bill Clinton identified a constitutional escape hatch should President Obama and Congress fail to come to terms on a deficit reduction plan before the government hits its borrowing ceiling. He pointed to an obscure provision in the 14th Amendment...	New York Times
Jun 27, 2011	Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children QUOTE: Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for five justices in the majority in the video games decision, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, No. 08-1448, said video games were subject to full First Amendment protection. “Like the protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas — and even social messages — through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot and music) and through features distinctive to the medium...	New York Times
Jun 27, 2011	Justices Strike Down Arizona Campaign Finance Law QUOTE: the Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that provided escalating matching funds to candidates who accept public financing...The majority said the law violated the First Amendment rights of candidates who raise private money.	New York Times
Jun 20, 2011	Court Issues Split Ruling on Poor’s Right to Counsel QUOTE: In a 5-to-4 decision that divided along ideological lines, the court said there is no automatic right to counsel for people charged with civil contempt, at least when the parent seeking to collect child support does not have a lawyer.	New York Times
Jun 06, 2011	Supreme Court Rules for Drug Firm in a Patent Dispute QUOTE: The “general rule,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority in a 7-to-2 decision, is that “rights in an invention belong to the inventor,” even if created on an employer’s watch.	New York Times
May 23, 2011	Justices, 5-4, Tell California to Cut Prisoner Population QUOTE: Conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates.	New York Times
Apr 20, 2011	Juvenile Killers in Jail for Life Seek a Reprieve QUOTE: Teenagers deserved more lenient treatment than adults because they are immature, impulsive, susceptible to peer pressure and able to change for the better over time… Tammy Lotts said race figured in her stepson’s trial.	New York Times
Mar 27, 2011	Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case QUOTE: Plaintiffs in the class-action suit... claim that Wal-Mart owes billions of dollars to as many as 1.5 million women who they say were unfairly treated on pay and promotions...” A 2009 article in The Fordham Law Review defending Professor Bielby said the debate was “about the existence of unconscious or implicit bias, the continued seriousness of discrimination as a force in the modern workplace and the appropriate reach of legal remedies to challenge discrimination.”	New York Times
Jan 18, 2011	In Knotty State Secrets Case, Justices Ponder Telling Litigants to ‘Go Away’ QUOTE: The contractors sued, asking to keep the money and seeking $1.2 billion more. They said their work had been frustrated by the government’s failure to share classified technology. The government disputed that, but would not explain why, invoking the state secrets privilege.	New York Times
Jun 29, 2010	Supreme Court Affirms a Ban on Soft Money QUOTE: The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed without comment a ruling upholding a ban on so-called soft-money contributions to political parties.	New York Times
Jun 28, 2010	Justices Rule Against Group That Excludes Gay Students QUOTE: A public law school did not violate the First Amendment by withdrawing recognition from a Christian student group that excluded gay students, the Supreme Court ruled...	New York Times
Jun 24, 2010	Justices Limit Use of ‘Honest Services’ Law Against Fraud QUOTE: The justices were unanimous in calling a broad interpretation of the law, which makes it a crime “to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services,” unconstitutionally vague.	New York Times
Jun 21, 2010	Court Affirms Ban on Aiding Groups Tied to Terror QUOTE: In a case pitting free speech against national security, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations, even if the help takes the form of training for peacefully resolving conflicts.	New York Times
May 17, 2010	Extended Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Is Upheld QUOTE: In a broad endorsement of federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Congress has the authority under the Constitution to allow the continued civil commitment of sex offenders after they have completed their criminal sentences. The 7-to-2 decision touched off a heated debate among the justices on a question that has lately engaged the Tea Party movement and opponents of the new health care law: What limits does the Constitution impose on Congress’s power to legislate on matters not specifically delegated to it in Article I?	New York Times

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