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Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. Facts of the case When Google implemented its Android Operating System (Android OS), it wrote its own programming language based on Java, which is owned by Oracle. To facilitate developers writing their own programs for Android OS, Google’s version used the same names, organization, and functionality as Java's Application Programming Interfaces (

Facts of the case In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against a constitutional challenge by characterizing the penalty for not buying health insurance as a tax, which Congress has the power to impose. In 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress enacted an amendment to the ACA that set the penalty for not buying health insur

Today's historic hearing on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) seemed to indicate that the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court will side with the Trump administration to invalidate the Obama era program.  However, with Chief Justice John Roberts, there is an unpredictable wild card.  Whatever the Court decides, the consequences will be