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At the risk of making your head hurt today we direct your attention to scotus blog for a little constitutional law discussion.

In McBurney v. Young, a unanimous Court (in an opinion by Justice Alito) held that Virginia's Freedom of Information Act, which grants Virginia citizens access to all public records, but grants no such right to non-Virginians, does not violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause, which protects only those privileges and immunities that are "fundamental." Nor, the Court held, does the Act violate the dormant Commerce Clause.

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Shooting suspect Neil Allan MacInnis was taken into custody within minutes of opening fire at New River Valley Mall in Christiansburg, Virginia. Christiansburg is a small, roughly 21,000 people, in Southwest Virginia. Virgina Tech Police, Blacksburg Police, Christiansburg Police responded to reports of a shooting on April 12, around 2 p.m. The mall houses New River Community College satellite campus, MacInnis was a student at. The suspect wounded two women, a fellow student and a part-time employee of the mall, before he was apprehended. One woman was treated in the mall, while the other was flown to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. The first victim was eventually transferred to the same hospital. Both women are currently in stable condition. Authorities have not released the names of the injured women.

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