Elena Kagan

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Solicitor General Elena Kagan asked for an unprecedented reconsideration of an appeals court ruling that government agents illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested positive...

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...vehicle for deciding an issue of such consequence, and that the Florida ruling was well-supported. Solicitor General Elena Kagan warns the court that getting involved in reviewing such decisions will require the Supreme Court to...

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...abuse. Some pictures show "soldiers pointing pistols or rifles at the heads of hooded and handcuffed detainees," Solicitor General Elena Kagan said in an appeal to the high court. In one, "a soldier holds a broom as if 'sticking its end into...

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...Tide," Boston Globe, Oct. 19, 2008 After Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he tapped Kagan to be his solicitor general. In January, Kagan received the endorsement of the last eight solicitors general in a letter to the Senate...

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...urged the lower court to reconsider its decision against the British detainees. In the government filing, Solicitor General Elena Kagan told the high court to exercise caution in granting what she called "new rights" to detained foreign...

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