John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99.

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Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might end mandatory union fees for public employees, some labor-friendly states enacted laws last year to protect membership rolls while unions redoubled their recruitment efforts. Those steps appear to have paid off, at least initially.

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A U.S. judge lowered a jury's damage award from $80 million to $25 million for a California cancer victim who used Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer.

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A woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend in a barrage of text messages to take his own life should have her involuntary manslaughter conviction thrown out because it violated her right to free speech, her lawyers told the nation's highest court on Monday.

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The nation’s high court isn’t going to rescue Wisconsin or any other states from gerrymandered voting districts. Citizens are going to have to mend this themselves. And a renewed push to approve Assembly Bill 303 starts now. Call or write ...

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A three-judge panel has dismissed a federal lawsuit challenging Republican-drawn legislative boundaries following a weighty U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama administration program shielding young immigrants from deportation.

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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday rejecting partisan gerrymandering claims in North Carolina and Maryland will effectively end similar federal lawsuits in several states. But it isn't likely to stop other cases challenging congressional or state legislative districts on different grounds or in different venues.

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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a huge blow to attempts to combat the drawing of electoral districts for partisan gain on Thursday in a ruling that could embolden political line-drawing after the 2020 census.

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New evidence paints a "disturbing picture" that racial discrimination may be the motive behind the Trump administration's push to ask everyone in the country about citizenship status, a federal judge wrote in a Monday filing.

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At least $9 billion has been bet — legally — on sports in the U.S. in the year since New Jersey's victory in a U.S. Supreme Court case cleared the way for other states to do it.

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The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold off issuing a decision about whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers Monday, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia.

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Founders intended to avoid an all-powerful presidency.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with a Wisconsin law that allows law-enforcement officials to draw blood without a warrant from suspected drunken drivers who have become unconscious.

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Two University of Wisconsin Law School graduates will be arguing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court later this month.

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government's power to detain them after they've committed crimes but finished their sentences.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case about the reach of a federal clean-water law.

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The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned to work at the building for the first time since undergoing surgery for lung cancer in late December.

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A criminal appeal challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin's implied-consent statute will be argued in April before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it will take up its first gun-rights case in nine years, a challenge to New York City's prohibition on carrying a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun outside the city limits.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue.

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The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recovery from cancer surgery is "on track" and no further treatment is required. But the 85-year-old justice will miss court arguments next week.

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The U.S. Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery on Friday to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the Supreme Court said.

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The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a possibly incendiary case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their attempts to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood.

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The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Virginia Republicans who are trying to preserve state legislative districts that were struck down by a lower court for being racially discriminatory.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the court fight over repealed Obama-era "net neutrality" rules that required internet providers to treat all online traffic equally.

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The state Supreme Court is limiting an insurance company's payout in a massive northwestern Wisconsin wildfire.

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