Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. once confessed that he had a hard time finding an opening to ask questions in oral arguments during his early months on the U.S. Supreme…
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to leave in place the American military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning service members with a same-sex orientation, while an appeal of…
Updated: A Think Progress blogger has loudly questioned Justice Samuel A. Alito’s attendance at an American Spectator fund-raising dinner—and received an irate response from a security guard.
A drug dealer seeking to be declared an American citizen appears likely to fail in his Supreme Court argument that gender differences in U.S. immigration law are unconstitutional.
U.S. Supreme Court justices appear sympathetic to a couple’s bid for class action status in a lawsuit challenging AT&T cell phone charges, according to one account of oral arguments on…
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case today that could “end class-action litigation in America as we know it,” according to a law professor who studies the subject.
A dissent from a cert denial last month had some court watchers wondering whether Justice Sonia Sotomayor was staking a claim to the role played by the Supreme Court’s famous…
The U.S. Supreme Court could deadlock 4-4 in a case that asks whether car makers are shielded from product liability lawsuits for injuries caused by lap-only seat belts.
Justice Elena Kagan criticized the man who has temporarily replaced her as solicitor general in oral arguments on Wednesday in a constitutional challenge to an Arizona tax credit program that…
At least three justices appeared to side with California on Tuesday in its effort to ban the sale and rental of violent video games to minors under precedent that allows…
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