US Supreme Court News

GM is seeking approval for the sale from U.S. bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber just 30 days after filing for Chapter 11.

Leaders of civil rights organizations said they were disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano.

The US Supreme Court has quietly put off deciding whether it will take up the case of black death row inmate Troy Davis who for 20 years has insisted he did not kill a white policeman, a source close to Davis said yesterday.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Missouri's appeal to allow the state to enforce it's law restricting protests near funerals.

Virginia courts are feeling the impact of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prosecutors must make forensic examiners available for defense cross-examination about lab reports on drugs, ballistics and other trial evidence.

The U.S. Supreme Court didn't disclose today whether it will review former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio's appeal of his insider trading conviction, which his attorneys say indicates the case is garnering more attention.

A heavily publicized U.S. Supreme Court reversal of an appeals court ruling by Judge Sonia Sotomayor has at least temporarily diminished public support for President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee.

A father is challenging how Louisville assigns students to schools two years after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a method it said relied too heavily on race.

The ruling by the U.S. District Court in Nashville that supported convicted murderer Edward Jerome Harbison's contention that Tennessee's method of lethal injection violated the Eighth Amendment has been vacated by the 6th Circuit, the News Sentinel reported.

In July 1785, the citizens of this waterfront town assembled to heap praise on their newly minted nation and to thank God for helping them survive a fierce assault by the British during the Revolutionary War.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter's free-press legacy may well center more on what he said off the bench than on his role in significant decisions in cases ranging from confidential sources to sidewalk news racks.

A Missouri judge on Tuesday struck down a ballot summary prepared by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan for an initiative that would limit the use of eminent domain to take private property for redevelopment.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco Monday turned down a ship management company's bid to be shielded from a fine of up to $40 million if it is convicted of polluting the San Francisco Bay in a 2007 oil spill.

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an amendment to the Colorado Constitution that outlawed discrimination protections for gay people, same-sex couples could not enter into civil unions or domestic partnerships anywhere in the nation, much less get married.

A constitutional attorney who won a victory at the U.S. Supreme Court three years ago over some restrictions on "electioneering communications" in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, says a unique move by the Court on Monday shows the justices may be ready to strike down the restrictions entirely.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal by former Alaska Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch that prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to say he cheated Alaska's citizens when he secretly sought work from the oil-field service company Veco during the 2006 legislative session.

Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ricci v. DiStefano is supposed to be a lot of things.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a new trial request from convicted murderer Herman Saunders.

A military administrative board is recommending that a gay New York National Guard officer should be discharged for violating the military's 'don't ask-don't tell' policy against homosexual conduct.

The Supreme Court dealt them a blow, but they vow to fight on. That's the message from New Haven's black firefighters and the NAACP.