In something of a surprise cert grant, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Florida’s battle against beach erosion amounts to an unconstitutional taking of private owners’ coastal…
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a tax on cargo ships imposed by the city of Valdez, Alaska, as a violation of the Constitution’s tonnage clause.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an alien fighting his deportation on the ground that his bank fraud conviction wasn’t based on a statute requiring proof of losses above…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told judges at a federal appeals conference on Friday that she was “cheered” to hear that Sonia Sotomayor had been nominated to replace David H. Souter.
Don Blankenship, the chief executive of Massey Energy Co., questions whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this week that a judge he supported should have recused himself will ultimately stifle…
Friends and colleagues have disputed press accounts that Judge Sonia Sotomayor can be sharp-tongued on the bench. Now a Harvard law professor is mounting a different…
This week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a West Virginia Supreme Court justice should have recused himself from a case involving a party that helped…
Judge Sonia Sotomayor says in videos turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was an “affirmative action baby” admitted to Princeton University and Yale Law School despite lower…
Those wanting to send good wishes to Barack Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, can now take a virtual sharpie and pen a few words on her cast.
Vice President Joe Biden’s comments yesterday supporting Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s law enforcement credentials has some critics suggesting he went too far.
Speaking yesterday at a White House event to showcase…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled without dissent shortly after 7 p.m. ET today that the group of Indiana pension funds challenging a government-backed plan to sell most of Chrysler’s assets…
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