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Supreme Court May Enter 2012 Election With Politicized Docket

Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court may be thrust into the 2012 election campaign with potential cases on President Barack Obama’s health-care law, illegal immigration and affirmative action in the term that starts today.

The nine-month session already includes fights over police use of tracking devices and nudity on broadcast television, and review of the health-care law is likely after the Obama administration asked last week for a hearing.

The court may increase the stakes by taking up appeals that aim to limit the use of race by university admissions offices and bolster the power of states to crack down on illegal immigration.

“This term could turn out to be one of the most momentous Supreme Court terms in decades,” said Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel of the Washington-based Constitutional Accountability Center, which advocates for civil rights and broad federal power.

The court would probably decide the health-care, admissions and immigration cases at the close of its term in late June, less than five months before the November election.

Health care alone would create the rare if not unprecedented scenario of an election-year Supreme Court ruling on a president’s signature legislative accomplishment. Lower courts are divided on the constitutionality of the measure and its requirement that Americans either acquire insurance or pay a penalty. Both the Obama administration and a group of 26 states opposing the law filed Supreme Court appeals last week.

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A ruling striking down the health-care law would set up the court as a campaign issue for Obama, said Lucas A. Powe Jr., a Supreme Court historian who teaches at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. The president already has targeted the Supreme Court once, using his 2010 State of the Union address to criticize the court’s decision letting corporations spend unlimited sums on political advertising.

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Fraud Ring Crashed Cars For Insurance Payments

Twelve people have been charged by a Queens splendid jury on insurance rascal and other charges for allegedly entertainment engine van accidents to produce fake billing for not essential medical treatments and for coaching bona fide collision victims to heighten injuries.

Reportedly, the insurance companies were allegedly bilked out of more than $45,000 in total. Eight of the defendants were arrested final Tuesday, Sept. 13, and 4 others are being sought.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown identified the purported ringleader as John “Jemal” Davis, 36, of Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Davis and 7 of his codefendants were arrested final Tuesday on indictments in that they are variously charged with fifth-degree insurance fraud, third-degree splendid larceny, third-degree attempted splendid larceny, fourth-degree splendid larceny, fourth-degree attempted splendid larceny, first-degree equivocating business records, and fifth-degree conspiracy.

The other suspects arrested with Davis were identified as Aziz Danish, 25, of Wetherole Street in Rego Park; Mark Ware, 33, of Dormans Road in St. Albans; Maurice McCall, 29, of 218th Street in Jamaica; Ricaurte Robles, 27, of 208th Street in Queens Village; Steven Holland, 35, of Dean Street in Poughkeepsie; Patrick Dawkins, 22, of Inwood Street in Flushing and Julian Smith, 32, of 159th Street in Jamaica.

“This complaint sends a coherent summary to those who are attempting to lay waste the network that they will be held and prosecuted. The cost of automobile insurance rascal is estimated by the attention at $30 billion national annually,” Brown said. “Such rip-offs strike the honest consumer in the pocketbook by way of aloft premiums and will not be tolerated. Insurance rascal is not a victimless crime.”

“By entertainment automobile accidents the people arrested [last Tuesday] not usually stole from insurers, but moreover might have diverted military resources divided from more critical matters,” updated Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. “I wish to praise the NYPD’s Fraudulent Accident Investigation Squad, the New York State Department of Financial Services and the Queens District Attorney’s office for working together to close down this scheme.

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