The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in an ongoing fight over the state's latest photo identification voting law.
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Conservative Supreme Court justices disagree about how to read the law
With a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud.
Read More »Supreme Court sides with Catholic schools in employment suit
The Supreme Court sided with two Catholic schools in a ruling Wednesday underscoring that certain employees of religious schools, hospitals and social service centers can't sue for employment discrimination.
Read More »US high court: Class-action waivers enforceable in employment agreements
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a decision finding that employment agreements may contain clauses that prevent employees from banding together to sue their employer.
Read More »Sotomayor breaks shoulder in fall at home
The U.S. Supreme Court says Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke her left shoulder in a fall at her Washington, D.C., home.
Read More »Sotomayor calls job on high court blessing and curse
Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Read More »US Supreme Court justice to give lecture at UW
A U.S. Supreme Court justice is visiting Madison on Thursday to give a lecture and have lunch with law students.
Read More »Obama vows to press ahead on Clean Power Plan after setback
The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges are resolved.
Read More »Justice Sotomayor imparts life lessons on students
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told Utah students that the key to navigating a world filled with drastically different opinions is being able to understand the unique experiences that shape other people's views.
Read More »Sotomayor voices support for affirmative action
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday she wouldn't be where she is today without affirmative action, and that to think that such programs are no longer needed is to be "blind to a reality that's staring you in the face."
Read More »US high court says whistleblower testimony protected
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the First Amendment protects public employees from job retaliation when they testify in court about official corruption.
Read More »US high court: Inherited IRAs not protected in bankruptcy (UPDATE)
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that inherited Individual Retirement Accounts are not shielded from creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, a decision that clears up confusion about the status of unspent IRAs that parents leave to their children.
Read More »US Supreme Court: Children over 21 go to back of visa line
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that most immigrant children who have become adults during their parents' years-long wait to become legal permanent residents of the United States should go to the back of the line in their own wait for visas.
Read More »Last patent case of the term could end in a bust
In the last oral argument of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday took up a closely watched patent case that practitioners hoped would establish a standard for indirect patent infringement.
Read More »Patent case gives US justices a workout
In a case that could clarify the specificity with which patent holders must describe their inventions, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and the attorneys arguing the case of Nautilus Inc. v. Biosig Instruments Inc., No. 13-369, had a tough time finding the right words to articulate a standard.
Read More »US justices struggle with software patentability
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are facing the difficult task of determining whether computer-implemented software programs that draw on non-computerized principles — a category that could encompass countless types of programs that are in use by millions of people — are eligible for patents.
Read More »Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling leaves gap for courts, Congress
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling extending Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protection to private contractors of publicly-traded companies has some attorneys concerned about the lack of any limiting principle.
Read More »US Supreme Court order adds twist to contraception mandate challenges
A one-page, nonmerits order from the U.S. Supreme Court has infused new energy into court challenges brought by nonprofit employers who claim that the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage requirement violates their constitutional and statutory religious rights.
Read More »Court rules for airline in pilot defamation claim
Ruling that airlines have broad immunity from lawsuits under a post-9/11 security law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a $1.4 million defamation judgment awarded to a pilot who was reported by his employer as mentally unstable and potentially armed.
Read More »Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama's new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.
Justice Sotomayor to helm Times Square ball drop
The countdown to the new year in Times Square is getting some high-profile help — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Read More »Justices: Court-ordered psych evidence doesn’t violate 5th Amendment
Defendants who offer a diminished capacity defense cannot seek to exclude rebuttal evidence from court-ordered mental evaluations on Fifth Amendment grounds, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kansas v. Cheever.
Read More »Union pact case goes bust at the US Supreme Court
It was the major U.S. Supreme Court labor law decision that wasn’t.
Read More »US high court struggles over consent to search case
During a lively oral argument Wednesday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed torn over whether police can conduct a warrantless search of a home over the previous objection of a tenant when a co-tenant subsequently consents.
Read More »US Supreme Court beefs up standard for ineffective assistance appeals
Federal courts taking up ineffective assistance-based appeals involving plea bargains must apply a “doubly deferential” standard of review that gives significant weight to state court determinations, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, reversing a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Burt v. Titlow, No. 12-414.
Read More »Cellphone search cases move closer to US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon addresses an issue it has carefully avoided until now: Just how much privacy do Americans enjoy in the information contained within and emanating from their cellphones?
Court makes it harder to sue businesses
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday made it more difficult for Americans to sue businesses for discrimination and retaliation, leading a judge to call for Congress to overturn the court's actions.
Read More »Harsher sentencing guidelines violate Ex Post Facto Clause
Sentencing a criminal defendant under later guidelines that provide for a higher sentence than those in effect at the time the crimes were committed violates the Ex Post Facto Clause, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision.
Read More »Court: Judges can’t use new guidelines on old case
The U.S. Supreme Court says judges can't use newer sentencing guidelines on an old case.
Read More »Analysis: Employees must keep beneficiary designations updated
It’s fair to assume Warren Hillman never intended that the proceeds of his federal employee life insurance policy would go to his ex-wife when he died unexpectedly in 2008.
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