Welfare mothers: shopping or traveling? California pleads poverty. But justices ask about recipients' constitutional right to travel

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California would like to enforce a state law limiting welfare benefits for people who have lived in California for less than one year to what they would have received in the last state where they resided. In Anderson v. Green, the state is trying to get a federal injunction blocking enforcement of this law lifted. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in this case on Jan 17, 1995, with the state arguing the law's purpose was to decrease welfare expenditures in view of California's severe economic problems. The lawyers for the welfare mothers who moved to California to escape domestic violence argued that the law violates the constitutional right to freedom of movement.

Welfare recipients, Discrimination, Freedom of movement

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Justices eye deductibility of alimony; at issue is a state's power to tax nonresidents differently

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The ruling of the US Supreme Court in Lunding v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal on the deductibility of alimony payments is important not only for New York. There are five other states which limit the deductibility of alimony payments. These are California, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Attorney Christopher H. Lunding argued before the Supreme Court that denying the deduction was not a constitutional way to treat nonresidents.

Taxation, State taxation, Domicile in taxation, Domicile (Taxation), Alimony, New York (State)

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Justices save the big cases for the end

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The US Supreme Court entered the home stretch of its 1995-96 term issuing few decisions in a time of year usually busy. Only five opinions were issued, leaving 12 cases on difficult issues still pending. Opinions issued included one in Lane v. Pena involving the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Gray v. Netherland on an alleged denial of due process to a death row inmate.

United States. Supreme Court, 1996 AD, Courts of last resort

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