The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to accept an appeal that contends a 30-year sentence given to a 12-year-old boy amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Environmental Protection Agency may weigh costs and benefits when deciding how power plants should retrofit water intake systems to…
Today the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether supervising prosecutors can be sued for management errors that result in wrongful convictions, SCOTUSblog reports.
The FBI says it was able to trace the source of threats to Justice Clarence Thomas and several black celebrities after the writer apparently switched to e-mail.
Justice Antonin Scalia is nothing if not quotable. In his latest speech yesterday, he confessed to being disturbed about claims the Constitution erects a strict wall of separation between church…
Once media-shy Justice Antonin Scalia continued his media blitz in a televised question-and-answer session yesterday with students from a Northern Virginia high school.
Justice Antonin Scalia, who at times has appeared indifferent and nearly hostile to the media, is set to appear on the prime time Sunday news program 60 Minutes later this…
If he was nominated to the high court today, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he may not win confirmation because the public expects judges to rewrite the Constitution…
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