Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who cast the deciding vote in a 2007 case barring recovery for longtime pay discrimination, appeared to favor AT&T over female workers in a pension bias…
U.S. Supreme Court justices mulling whether to toss a Muslim cable TV installer’s suit against the former attorney general turned to an unusual hypothetical: Could the chief executive officer of…
A lawyer for the state of Tennessee defending prosecutors’ decision to withhold evidence in a death penalty trial encountered skeptical and indignant questioning from several justices on Tuesday.
U.S. Supreme Court justices are swayed by their law clerks, tending to vote more liberally or conservatively as more clerks of like ilk join their chambers, according to a new…
“To coin a phrase, in the spirit of the vice president-elect, you can’t always get what you want, but you get what you need,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A.…
The U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed today to hear arguments about whether the president can order the detention of enemy combatants captured on U.S. soil.
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…
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