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        "uri": "/2013/12/26/same-sex-marriage-moves-to-state-courts/",
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        "prettyDate": "December 26, 2013",
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        "summary": "Advocates on both sides of the gay marriage debate predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned part of a federal ban on gay marriage would create a pathway for states to act.",
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        "title": "Supreme Court weighs birth control dispute",
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        "prettyDate": "November 26, 2013",
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        "summary": "President Barack Obama's health care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies' religious objections to the law's birth-control mandate.",
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        "uri": "/2013/06/26/high-court-extends-benefits-to-same-sex-spouses/",
        "title": "High court extends benefits to same-sex spouses",
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        "prettyDate": "June 26, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/27/high-court-hears-case-on-federal-benefits-for-gays/",
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        "prettyDate": "March 27, 2013",
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        "summary": "In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court turned Wednesday to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.",
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        "uri": "/2013/01/21/high-court-may-block-stanford-investor-lawsuits/",
        "title": "High court may block Stanford investor lawsuits",
        "byline": "Mark Sherman",
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        "prettyDate": "January 21, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal that seeks to shut down class-action lawsuits from investors who lost billions in a massive Ponzi scheme orchestrated by former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford.",
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        "uri": "/2012/11/26/court-orders-new-look-at-health-care-challenge/",
        "title": "Court orders new look at health care challenge",
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        "prettyDate": "November 26, 2012",
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        "summary": "The Supreme Court has revived a Christian college's challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, with the acquiescence of the Obama administration.",
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        "title": "Scalia's critics fault justice over politics",
        "byline": "Mark Sherman, Associated Press",
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        "prettyDate": "July 05, 2012",
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        "summary": "Justice Antonin Scalia ended his 26th year on the Supreme Court with a string of losses in the term's biggest cases and criticism that he crossed a line from judging to politics.",
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        "uri": "/2012/06/29/high-court-health-law-ruling-leaves-winners-losers/",
        "title": "High court health law ruling leaves winners, losers",
        "byline": "Mark Sherman, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
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        "prettyDate": "June 29, 2012",
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        "summary": "By a single vote, President Barack Obama's health care overhaul survived a painstaking Supreme Court review that consumed thousands of pages in legal filings and an extraordinary six hours-plus of oral argument time back in March.",
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        "uri": "/2012/06/20/just-a-third-favor-obama-health-care-law/",
        "title": "Just a third favor Obama health care law",
        "byline": "Mark Sherman",
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        "prettyDate": "June 20, 2012",
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        "summary": "Just a third of Americans back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul on which the Supreme Court is about to pass judgment, a new poll finds. But there is overwhelming support among both supporters and opponents for Congress and the president to begin work on a new bill if the...",
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        "title": "Poll shows voters want new health care effort",
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        "prettyDate": "June 20, 2012",
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        "summary": "Americans overwhelmingly want the president and Congress to get to work on a new bill to change the health care system if the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul as unconstitutional, a new poll finds.",
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