Pictures of yesterday’s visit by President-elect Barack Obama and Vice-president elect Joseph Biden to the U.S. Supreme Court seemingly indicate a positive start for relations between the executive and judicial…
There’s no question that Davis Wright Tremaine won a civil rights victory for a Seattle parents group by fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court the local school…
President-elect Barack Obama and soon-to-be vice president Joe Biden will be visiting the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon at the invitation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
In a 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to extend a 2000 decision to bar judges from determining facts when deciding whether sentences should run consecutively.
A lawyer for the state of Vermont told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that a ruling for the defendant in a case on speedy trial rights could lead to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that failure to report for prison is not a “violent felony” meriting a longer sentence under a federal career criminal law.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether an order by President Bush restored Iraq’s immunity from lawsuits that could result in $1 billion or more in liability for the country’s…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide a reverse discrimination case challenging a city’s decision to throw out a firefighter promotion test because of poor results for minorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a “powder keg” voting rights case that challenges the law requiring Justice Department clearance for changed election procedures in certain jurisdictions.
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