Justiceline: May 18, 2012

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• Only a few months after he was robbed while on vacation in the Carribean, Justice Stephen Breyer’s home in Georgetown was robbed earlier this month.
• The California Supreme Court will decide whether a man who has lived in the United States since he was a toddler, put himself through law school and passed the bar nonetheless cannot be an attorney because he is undocumented.
• A federal court in New York held that an upstate town violated the First Amendment by starting every month town meeting with a Christian prayer for the last eleven years.
• Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) doesn’t care what the District of Columbia’s elected delegate to Congress has to say about the District of Columbia.
• The Ninth Circuit rules that Minute Maid can label one of its products “Pomegranate Blueberry” even though it is actually almost entirely apple and grape juice with only 0.3 percent pomegranate juice and 0.2 percent blueberry juice.

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