Updated: U.S. Supreme Court justices are scheduled to hold a private conference today to consider high court petitions. One that is bringing loads of attention from the media is a…
It’s pretty much a given that Chief Justice John G. Roberts will swear in Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th president on Jan. 20. But until today, it wasn’t so…
Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote last year’s 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the Oregon Supreme Court to reconsider a $79.5 million punitive damages award, a ruling the Oregon justices…
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the familiar today when it hears arguments on whether to set aside a $79.5 million punitive damages award against tobacco giant Philip Morris.
U.S. Supreme Court justices debated the meaning of “best” with quirky examples yesterday as they considered the requirements of a phrase in the Clean Water Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday on whether Title IX is the only basis for a lawsuit filed by parents who say their 5-year-old daughter was sexually harassed…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Massey Energy Co. that had sought to disqualify a West Virginia justice who criticized the company’s chief executive officer.
The Colorado attorney general got the name wrong when he addressed Justice David H. Souter during oral arguments on Monday—but at least he wasn’t the first to do so.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent a jury instruction case back to a federal appeals court for an analysis of whether an error in felony murder instructions was harmless.
Prosecutors have declined to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that threw out 13 indictments because the government pressured the defendants’ employer to stop paying their legal…
A footnote by Justice David H. Souter in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning $2.5 billion in punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill is prompting…
The government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision striking down a broadcast fine for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during a Super Bowl halftime…
A federal judge’s decision to ban a prolific litigant and his counsel from filing any more ADA lawsuits without court permission has effectively been OK’d by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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