Vice President Dick Cheney and more than 300 members of Congress have filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to find the handgun ban by the District of Columbia…
A federal appeals court has ruled that judges can consider pleas by Guantanamo detainees that seek to block their transfers to countries where they may be tortured.
Updated: New rules adopted today by the Judicial Conference of the United States for the first time provide uniform national standards for dealing with federal judges whose health or behavior…
A California appeals court is standing its ground and refusing to change an earlier ruling requiring Ford Motor Co. to pay $82.6 million in a rollover case.
Eight U.S. Supreme Court justices come clean about their legal-writing pet peeves and their opinion-writing philosophies in “raw and unvarnished” videos posted to a linguist’s Web site.
Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t shy away from controversial subjects, including the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2000 decision in Bush v. Gore that ended the recount of ballots in Florida and handed…
Justice Antonin Scalia revisited the subject of torture Tuesday evening in a speech to Missouri college students, after his previous comments on the subject provoked a Mar 6, 2008 12:47 PM CST
High school students in Bethesda had a high-profile visitor yesterday—Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.—in an event that was supposed to have been hush-hush.
Legal journalist Jan Crawford Greenburg of ABC News recalls a conversation with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in a blog column about how far women have come—and the…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts owns Pfizer stock valued between $5,001 and $50,000, according to his financial statements, and that’s apparently the reason he did not take part in Mar 4, 2008 12:10 PM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court took no action today on a request to revive the government’s ability to penalize broadcasters that air so-called fleeting expletives—the unscripted use of the F word…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the accounting fraud appeal of Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son, Timothy, the company’s former chief financial officer.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a convicted taxpayer who claimed he owed no taxes on a distribution from his corporation because it had no earnings and…
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